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Unmasking impostors is something the art world has faced for decades, and there are valuable lessons from the works of Elmyr de Hory that can apply to the world of defensive cybersecurity. During the 1960s, de Hory gained infamy as a premier forger, passing off counterfeit masterworks of Picasso, Matisse, and Renoir to unsuspecting collectors and renowned museums. Over the next several decades,

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said on Monday that it was banning the import of new, foreign-made consumer routers, citing "unacceptable" risks to cyber and national security. The action was designed to safeguard Americans and the underlying communications networks the country relies on, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said in a post on X. The development means that new models of

Security teams have spent years building identity and access controls for human users and service accounts. But a new category of actor has quietly entered most enterprise environments, and it operates entirely outside those controls. Claude Code, Anthropic's AI coding agent, is now running across engineering organizations at scale. It reads files, executes shell commands, calls external APIs,

To consolidate all of our security intelligence and news in one location, we have migrated Naked Security to the Sophos News platform. Categories: Naked Security

Latest episode - listen now! Full transcript inside... Categories: Naked Security Tags: cybercrime, hacking, IoT, TP-LINK, WinRAR

Cryptography isn't just about secrecy. You need to take care of authenticity (no imposters!) and integrity (no tampering!) as well. Categories: Naked Security Tags: cryptography, Tapo, TP-LINK

Celebrating the true crypto bros. Listen now (full transcript available). Categories: Naked Security Tags: cybercrime, hacking, scams

Apps on your iPhone must come from the App Store. Except when they don't... we explain what to look out for. Categories: Naked Security Tags: FBI, MDM, pig butchering, romance scam, SCAM, TestFlight

The rise of tap-to-pay and chip-and-PIN hasn't rid the world of ATM card skimming criminals... Categories: Naked Security Tags: atm, cybercrime, skimming