Smashing Security

Hacking fears are raised at Western Europe's most hazardous building, why porn sites might soon be scanning your face, and our guest narrowly avoids a Facebook Marketplace scammer.

All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Dinah Davis.

Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and rude language.

Episode links:

• Why Facebook Is Rebranding Itself as Meta - INSEAD.
• Windscale fire - Wikipedia.
• Sellafield nuclear site hacked by groups linked to Russia and China - The Guardian.
• Response to a news report on cyber security at Sellafield - UK Government.
• Response to Guardian news article - Office for Nuclear Regulation.
• Common Facebook Marketplace scams and how to avoid them - Comparitech.
• Advice from Google on how to remove malware and unsafe software from Android devices - Google.
• New Report Reveals Truths About How Teens Engage with Pornography - Common Sense Media.
• ‘A lot of it is actually just abuse’- Young people and pornography - Children's Commissioner for England.
• Implementing the Online Safety Act: Protecting children from online pornography - Ofcom.
• UK age assurance guidance for porn sites gives thumbs up to AI age checks, digital ID wallets and more - TechCrunch.
• Demotivational posters.
• "Her Time: How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe," by Shohini Ghos.
• Meet Your Second Wife - Saturday Night Live sketch, YouTube.
• ‘Modern Love Podcast’: Our 34-Year Age Gap Didn’t Matter, Until It Did - New York Times.
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• Kolide – Kolide ensures that if your device isn’t secure it can’t access your cloud apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today!
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Don't minimise your Teams Meeting video call too hastily, you might reveal your dirty secrets! Would you be prepared to pay for Facebook and Instagram? And who is being faked to promote cryptocurrency scams?

All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by technology journalist Jane Wakefield.

Plus - don't miss our featured interview with Push Security founder and CEO Adam Bateman.

Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and rude language.

Episode links:

• XtraVue Trailer demo - YouTube.
• Nvidia sued after video call mistake showed 'stolen' data - BBC News.
• Valeo v. Nvidia complaint - DocumentCloud.
• Fake BBC news article using Jane Wakefield’s name - Twitter.
• Report a fraudulent webpage to Google Safe Browsing - Google.
• Meta's EU ad-free subscription faces early privacy challenge - Yahoo!
• Meta to offer ad-free subscription in Europe in bid to keep tracking other users - TechCrunch.
• Meta’s EU ad-free subscription faces early privacy challenge - TechCrunch.
• Facebook and Instagram to Offer Subscription for No Ads in Europe - Facebook. 
• noyb files GDPR complaint against Meta over “Pay or Okay”  - NOYB. 
• Big Mac index 2023 - Statista.
• Euro aea wages 2023 - Take-profit.org.
• Boat Story review - The Guardian.
• GlasgowGPT - the world's first Scottish artificial intelligence chatbot.
• Gergely Orosz uncovers fake female speakers at a tech conference - Twitter. 
• Eliza-May Austin shares her experiences of being invited to speak at tech conferences - LinkedIn. 
• Boat Story - BBC iPlayer.
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Sponsored by:

• Push Security - Monitor and secure your entire identity attack surface, including non-SSO identities. Get notified in real-time to vulnerabilities across all your internet-facing identities, and have your staff guided to fix simple issues.
• Kolide – Kolide ensures that if your device isn’t secure it can’t access your cloud apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today!
• Vanta – Expand the scope of your security program with market-leading compliance automation… while saving time and money. Smashing Security listeners get 10% off!

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Theme tune: "Vinyl Memories" by Mikael Manvelyan.

Assorted sound effects: AudioBlocks.

Who gets to decide who should be CEO of OpenAI? ChatGPT or the board? Plus a ransomware gang goes a step further than most, reporting one of its own data breaches to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.

Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and rude language.

Episode links:

• Hackers Use Online Casinos to Gamble Mountains of Cash They Steal from Victims - 404.
• AlphV files an SEC complaint against MeridianLink for not disclosing a breach to the SEC - DataBreaches.net.
• SEC Adopts Rules on Cybersecurity Risk Management, Strategy, Governance, and Incident Disclosure by Public Companies - US Securities and Exchange Committee.
• OpenAI announces leadership transition - OpenAI.
• The Fear and Tension That Led to Sam Altman’s Ouster at OpenAI - The New York Times.
• Emergency Pod: Sam Altman is Out at Open AI - The New York Times.
• What We Know About Sam Altman’s Ouster From OpenAI  - The New York Times.
• Ousted OpenAI C.E.O. Makes Plans for New Artificial Intelligence Company - The New York Times.
• Microsoft Hires Sam Altman Hours After OpenAI Rejects His Return - The New York Times.
• In the battle to bring ousted founder Sam Altman back to OpenAI, Microsoft and Satya Nadella hold the trump cards - Fortune.
• Rate your resignation letter - Twitter account.
• Suella Braverman’s resignation letter - Twitter.
• Analysis of letter by Dame Andrea Jenkyns - Twitter.
• Thread about letter from Dame Andrea Jenkyns - Twitter.
• The Future by Naomi Alderman review - The Guardian.
• The Future by Naomi Alderman - Harper Collins.
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Sponsored by:

• Kolide – Kolide ensures that if your device isn’t secure it can’t access your cloud apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today!
• Vanta – Expand the scope of your security program with market-leading compliance automation… while saving time and money. Smashing Security listeners get 10% off!

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Theme tune: "Vinyl Memories" by Mikael Manvelyan.

Assorted sound effects: AudioBlocks.

Who's more incompetent - the cryptocurrency exchanges or some of the people who hack them? Plus a closer look at the reliability of AI chatbots.

All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.

Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and rude language.

Episode links:

• Bored Ape NFT Partygoers Blame UV Lights For Burned Eyes And Skin - Kotaku.
• Poloniex crypto-exchange offers 5% cut to thieves if they return that $120M they nicked - The Register.
• Raft Suffers $3.3M Exploit That Drove Down Stablecoin 50%, but Hacker Likely Lost Money on Attack - CoinDesk.
• Leaderboard Comparing LLM Performance at Producing Hallucinations when Summarizing Short Documents - Github.
• Cut the Bull…. Detecting Hallucinations in Large Language Models - Vectara.
• Chatbots May ‘Hallucinate’ More Often Than Many Realize - The New York Times.
• Bing's ChatGPT-Powered Search Has a Misinformation Problem - Vice.
• ChatGPT gets code questions wrong 52% of the time - The Register.
• FreeTube.
• The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar - Netflix.
• Smashing Security merchandise (t-shirts, mugs, stickers and stuff)

Sponsored by:

• Kolide – Kolide ensures that if your device isn’t secure it can’t access your cloud apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today!
• Vanta – Expand the scope of your security program with market-leading compliance automation… while saving time and money. Smashing Security listeners get 10% off!
• Panoptica – Panoptica is a cloud native application security solution connecting developer and security teams to their organization’s biggest cloud threats from code to production.

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Theme tune: "Vinyl Memories" by Mikael Manvelyan.

Assorted sound effects: AudioBlocks.

A woman's attempt to hire an assassin online backfires badly, it's scary just how cheap it is to buy information about US military personnel, and trolls and tattoos don't mix.

All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by The Cyberwire's Dave Bittner.

Plus don’t miss our featured interview with Jason Meller of Kolide.

Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and rude language.

Episode links:

• Woman jailed after RentaHitman.com assassin turned out to be – surprise – FBI - The Register.
• Zandra Ellis criminal complaint (PDF).
• Rent-A-Hitman: Your Point & Click Solution! - YouTube.
• It’s shockingly easy to buy sensitive data about US military personnel - MIT Technology Review.
• This Guy Trolls His TikTok Haters By Getting Tattoos of Them - Vice.
• Man Gets Back at Trolls Online With Revenge Tattoos - MSN.
• The Beatles - “Now and Then” music video - YouTube.
• “The Last of Us” piano scene, episode 3 - YouTube.
• Celeritas podcast.
• Pick of the week archive - Smashing Security.
• Smashing Security merchandise (t-shirts, mugs, stickers and stuff)

Sponsored by:

• Kolide – Kolide ensures that if your device isn’t secure it can’t access your cloud apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today!
• Vanta – Expand the scope of your security program with market-leading compliance automation… while saving time and money. Smashing Security listeners get 10% off!
• Panoptica – Panoptica is a cloud native application security solution connecting developer and security teams to their organization’s biggest cloud threats from code to production.

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Theme tune: "Vinyl Memories" by Mikael Manvelyan.

Assorted sound effects: AudioBlocks.

Workers wonder if their colleagues are actually AI, and we take a deeper look into the curious scams going on via Booking.com.

All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.

Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and rude language.

Episode links:

• Art Musings - Gratuitous plug for Carole’s new podcast with Sally Anne-Stewart.
• Smashing Security #344: What’s cooking at Booking.com? And a podcast built by AI - Smashing Security.
• Fraudsters target Booking.com customers claiming hotel stay could be cancelled - Graham Cluley.
• Scammers try to trick Graham again via Booking.com - Twitter.
• 'Thieves used fake Booking.com emails to steal £1,000 from me before my wedding' - The Mirror. Includes gratuitous mention of Graham’s hunt for aubergines.
• Unmasking a Sophisticated Phishing Campaign That Targets Hotel Guests - Akamai.
• Did AI Write Product Reviews? Gannett Says No - The New York Times.
• Is my co-worker AI? Bizarre product reviews leave Gannett staff wondering - The Verge.
• How to spot a fake review - Which?
• Lonely Water - Public information film from 1973.
• Scarred for Life Volume 1: The 1970s - Lulu.
• Scarred for Life Volume 2: Television in the 1980s - Lulu.
• Scarred for Life Twitter account.
• Say More with Dr? Sheila - Apple Podcasts.
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Sponsored by:

• Kolide – Kolide ensures that if your device isn’t secure it can’t access your cloud apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today!
• Vanta – Expand the scope of your security program with market-leading compliance automation… while saving time and money. Smashing Security listeners get 10% off!
• Panoptica - Panoptica is a cloud native application security solution connecting developer and security teams to their organization’s biggest cloud threats from code to production.

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Theme tune: "Vinyl Memories" by Mikael Manvelyan.

Assorted sound effects: AudioBlocks.

Ahoy! There's trouble in the South China Seas as Filipino organisations fail to secure their systems, we take a close look at Google IP protection, and we take a look at just how so much genetic profile data leaked out of 23andMe.

All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Mark Stockley.

Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and rude language.

Episode links:

• Philippines’ cybersecurity failures exposed as hackers leak state secrets, people’s data - South China Morning Post.
• IT admins are just as culpable for weak password use - Outpost24.
• Google Chrome wants to hide your IP address - MalwareBytes.
• The 23andMe data breach reveals the vulnerabilities of our interconnected data - The Conversation.
• 23andMe User Data Stolen in Targeted Attack on Ashkenazi Jews - Wired.
• Worried about the 23andMe hack? Here's what you can do - Washington Post.
• Paris Police 1905 - BBC iPlayer.
• British Hen Welfare Trust.
• Art Musings - Art Musings podcast.
• Smashing Security merchandise (t-shirts, mugs, stickers and stuff)

Sponsored by:

• Kolide – Kolide ensures that if your device isn’t secure it can’t access your cloud apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today!
• Vanta – Expand the scope of your security program with market-leading compliance automation… while saving time and money. Smashing Security listeners get 10% off!

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Theme tune: "Vinyl Memories" by Mikael Manvelyan.

Assorted sound effects: AudioBlocks.

How hunting for an aubergine could be all it takes for you to hand your credit card details over to a scammer, and just how good is a podcast entirely built by AI?

All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.

Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and rude language.

Episode links:

• Support Alie Hothersall’s fundraising for Mind - JustGiving.
• Fraudsters target Booking.com customers claiming hotel stay could be cancelled - Graham Cluley.
• Security.txt - A proposed standard which allows websites to define security policies.
• Develop AI launches a completely synthetic podcast - Develop AI. 
• Develop AI podcast.
• Is It Legal To Pay - The err.. https version of a map of which countries allow you to pay ransom demands.
• Licorice Pizza - BBC iPlayer.
• Smashing Security merchandise (t-shirts, mugs, stickers and stuff)

Sponsored by:

• Kolide – Kolide ensures that if your device isn’t secure it can’t access your cloud apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today!
• Devo – Register now to join Devo and other cybersecurity industry professionals on October 18 for sessions and panels focused on de-stressing, SOC career development, and more!
• Vanta - Expand the scope of your security program with market-leading compliance automation... while saving time and money. Smashing Security listeners get 10% off!

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Theme tune: "Vinyl Memories" by Mikael Manvelyan.

Assorted sound effects: AudioBlocks.

Dream girlfriends, AI love scams, and an alleged spy who is said to have made a series of blunders.

All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Host Unknown's Thom Langford.

Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and rude language.

Episode links:

• Former Soldier Indicted for Attempting to Pass National Defense Information to People’s Republic of China - US Department of Justice.
• ‘Dream’ AI Girlfriend Randomly Turns Into Nude Jennifer Lopez, Has Four Legs - 404 Media.
• LoveGPT: How “single ladies” looking for your data upped their game with ChatGPT - Avast Threat Labs.
• 5 Signs Your Tinder Match Is a Scam Bot - LifeWire.
• Support Alie Hothersall’s fundraising for Mind - JustGiving.
• “The Last Action Heroes” by Nick de Semlyen - Pan Macmillan.
• Life Kit  - NPR.
• Tom Hanks has made a complaint - Twitter.
• Smashing Security merchandise (t-shirts, mugs, stickers and stuff)

Sponsored by:

• Kolide – Kolide ensures that if your device isn’t secure it can’t access your cloud apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today!
• Devo – Register now to join Devo and other cybersecurity industry professionals on October 18 for sessions and panels focused on de-stressing, SOC career development, and more!
• Moonlock — cybersecurity wing of MacPaw. Developers of the antimalware tech in CleanMyMac X — Moonlock Engine.

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Theme tune: "Vinyl Memories" by Mikael Manvelyan.

Assorted sound effects: AudioBlocks.

Is a deepfake Tom Hanks better than the real thing? Who has been attacking the British Royal Family's website, and why? And how can you protect your vehicle from the spate of keyless car thefts?

All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Maria Varmazis.

Plus don't miss our featured interview with Devo CISO Kayla Williams.

Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and rude language.

Episode links:

• The disturbing uncanny valley of Robert Zemeckis film 'Polar Express' - Far Out magazine.
• Tom Hanks warns of deepfake video promoting dental plan - Instagram.
• Fuming Tom Hanks says he had nothing to do with that AI dental ad clone of him - The Register.
• Tom Hanks warns dental plan ad image is AI fake - BBC News.
• Robin Williams’ Daughter Zelda Criticizes Use of AI to Re-create His Voice: “I Find It Personally Disturbing” - Hollywood Reporter.
• Bruce Willis denies selling rights to his face - BBC News.
• Deepfake Bruce Willis in Russian telecoms advert - YouTube.
• Could you get "carhacked"? The growing risk of keyless vehicle thefts and how to protect yourself - CBS News.
• Keyless car theft: What is a relay attack, how can you prevent it, and will your car insurance cover it? - Leasing.com.
• Testing Phone-Sized Faraday Bags - Matt Blaze.
• Famous DDoS attacks - Cloudflare.
• The sinister Russian hackers who've claimed responsibility for crashing Buckingham Palace website - Daily Mail.
• King Charles rebukes Russia's 'horrifying' invasion of Ukraine in unprecedented speech - Express.
• Visually, how much paper would a GB and a TB of data fill in terms of physical size? - Quora.
• “The shop around the corner” - Wikipedia.
• Evan Designs.
• “Eight Detectives” by Alex Pavesi - Penguin Books.
• Review of “Eight Detectives” - The Guardian.
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Sponsored by:

• Hunters – A SOC platform, built to empower your security team to reduce risk, complexity and costs.
• Kolide – Kolide ensures that if your device isn’t secure it can’t access your cloud apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today!
• Devo - Register now to join Devo and other cybersecurity industry professionals on October 18 for sessions and panels focused on de-stressing, SOC career development, and more!

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Theme tune: "Vinyl Memories" by Mikael Manvelyan.

Assorted sound effects: AudioBlocks.