Pulchritudinous women with glossy long hair are targeting Israeli officials via Facebook - but why? Scammers have found a new way to gain access to your most sensitive information - but how? And armchair detectives are helping investigating cold cases involving DNA - but should they?

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

Visit https://www.smashingsecurity.com/270 to check out this episode’s show notes and episode links.

Follow the show on Twitter at @SmashinSecurity, or on the Smashing Security subreddit, or visit our website for more episodes.

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

Theme tune: "Vinyl Memories" by Mikael Manvelyan.

Assorted sound effects: AudioBlocks.

Special Guest: Maria Varmazis.

Sponsored By:

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Links:

• How Barbie's body size would look in real life — Daily Mail.
• Operation Bearded Barbie: APT-C-23 Campaign Targeting Israeli Officials — Cybereason.
• Hackers Gaining Power of Subpoena Via Fake “Emergency Data Requests” — Brian Krebs.
• What we know about the increase in U.S. murders in 2020 — Pew Research Center.
• The History of DNA: From Crime Scenes to Consumer Goods — University of West Florida.
• How an Unlikely Family History Website Transformed Cold Case Investigations — The New York Times.
• DNA Databases Are Boon to Police But Menace to Privacy, Critics Say — PEW.
• Philanthropists Push Police Searches of DNA Databases — The New York Times.
• Help solve crimes with your DNA — DNASolves.
• Hackers Attacked Two Leading Genetic Genealogy Websites — BuzzFeed.
• How to Pronounce Moët & Chandon? And WHY?! — YouTube.
• How to Pronounce Wednesday? (CORRECTLY) — YouTube.
• Julien Miquel on YouTube.
• Support Maria Varmazis as she raises money for Cancer Research — Pan-Mass Challenge.
• The House (2022 film) — Wikipedia.
• The House — Netflix.
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There's monkey business involving cryptocurrency thieves and MailChimp, a stalker exploits his ex-partner's CCTV cameras, and what are the naughty words Amazon doesn't want its staff using?

All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Zoë Rose.

Visit https://www.smashingsecurity.com/269 to check out this episode’s show notes and episode links.

Follow the show on Twitter at @SmashinSecurity, or on the Smashing Security subreddit, or visit our website for more episodes.

Remember: Follow us on Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app, to catch all of the episodes as they go live. Thanks for listening!

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

Theme tune: "Vinyl Memories" by Mikael Manvelyan.

Assorted sound effects: AudioBlocks.

Special Guest: Zoë Rose.

Sponsored By:

• Keeper Security: Keeper Security’s enterprise password management platform locks down logins, payment cards, confidential documents, API keys, and database passwords in a patented Zero-Knowledge encrypted vault. And, it takes less than an hour to deploy across your organization.
• 
  
• Sign up for a Keeper free trial for your organization today, and get a free 3-year personal plan, at keepersecurity.com/smashing
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• 
  
• Kolide is perfect for organizations that want to move beyond a traditional lock-down model and move to one where employees are educated about security and device management while fixing nuanced problems. We call this approach Honest Security.
• 
  
• You can try Kolide on an unlimited number of devices with all its features for free and without a credit card for 14 days.

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Links:

• Trezor wallets hacked? Don’t be duped by phishing attack email — Graham Cluley.
• Tweet by Trezor.
• Ongoing phishing attacks on Trezor users — Trezor.
• Hacker accessed 319 crypto- and finance-related Mailchimp accounts, company said — The Record.
• Stalker used woman's own CCTV cameras to watch her at home — Liverpool Echo.
• Operation: SafeEscape.
• Work Trend Index: Microsoft’s latest research on the ways we work — Microsoft.
• Research: A Little Recognition Can Provide a Big Morale Boost — HBR.
• 50% of companies want workers back in office 5 days a week — CNBC.
• New Amazon Worker Chat App Would Ban Words Like “Union” — The Intercept.
• Trust No One — Netflix.
• Smashing Security episode 114: Darknet Diaries, death, and beauty apps — Where we discussed the mysterious case of Gerry Cotten and QuadrigaCX.
• Find QuadrigaCX’s missing $190 million, and you could win a $100,000 bounty — Graham Cluley.
• Hamilton One Essential S1 Magicfold Premium Buggy — Kruidvat NL.
• Infantino 4-in-1 Flip Advanced Draagzak BK-05204 — Bol.
• Cosco Scenera Next Convertible Car Seat, Boulder — Canadian Tire.
• Literature Clock.
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Strange goings-on on LinkedIn, Ukraine publishes a list of alleged Russian FSB agents, and police in Pittsburgh investigate an odd report of an active shooter.

All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by The Lazarus Heist's Geoff White.

Visit https://www.smashingsecurity.com/268 to check out this episode’s show notes and episode links.

Follow the show on Twitter at @SmashinSecurity, or on the Smashing Security subreddit, or visit our website for more episodes.

Remember: Follow us on Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app, to catch all of the episodes as they go live. Thanks for listening!

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

Theme tune: "Vinyl Memories" by Mikael Manvelyan.

Assorted sound effects: AudioBlocks.

Special Guest: Geoff White.

Sponsored By:

• Keeper Security: Keeper Security’s enterprise password management platform locks down logins, payment cards, confidential documents, API keys, and database passwords in a patented Zero-Knowledge encrypted vault. And, it takes less than an hour to deploy across your organization.
• 
  
• Sign up for a Keeper free trial for your organization today, and get a free 3-year personal plan, at keepersecurity.com/smashing
• Kolide: Kolide is a SaaS app that sends employees important, timely, and relevant security recommendations concerning their Mac, Windows, and Linux devices, right inside Slack.
• 
  
• Kolide is perfect for organizations that want to move beyond a traditional lock-down model and move to one where employees are educated about security and device management while fixing nuanced problems. We call this approach Honest Security.
• 
  
• You can try Kolide on an unlimited number of devices with all its features for free and without a credit card for 14 days.

Support Smashing Security

Links:

• North Korea tests its ‘largest intercontinental ballistic missile’ — YouTube.
• LinkedIn Professional Community Policies — LinkedIn.
• Community Report — LinkedIn.
• The latest marketing tactic on LinkedIn: AI-generated faces — NPR.
• List of FSB agents — Ukraine Ministry of Defence.
• How the Dutch foiled Russian 'cyber-attack' on OPCW — BBC News.
• Boris Nemtsov: Murdered Putin rival 'tailed' by agent linked to FSB hit squad — BBC News.
• Police: Autocorrected text triggered large police presence on Pittsburgh’s North Side — WPXI.
• Pickle me up: Hilarious autocorrect fails, from Krispy Koreans to wet, sloppy kids — Daily Mail.
• After Life — Netflix.
• After Life trailer — YouTube.
• "Time on Rock - A Climber's Route into the Mountains" by Anna Fleming — Canongate Books.
• Severance — Apple TV.
• Severance trailer — YouTube.
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A Russian bank tells its customers to stop installing security updates, an Apple employee ends up in hot water, and learn our tips to avoid being virtually kidnapped.

All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Anna Brading.

Visit https://www.smashingsecurity.com/267 to check out this episode’s show notes and episode links.

Follow the show on Twitter at @SmashinSecurity, or on the Smashing Security subreddit, or visit our website for more episodes.

Remember: Follow us on Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app, to catch all of the episodes as they go live. Thanks for listening!

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

Theme tune: "Vinyl Memories" by Mikael Manvelyan.

Assorted sound effects: AudioBlocks.

Special Guest: Anna Brading.

Sponsored By:

• Kolide: At Kolide, we believe the supposedly Average Person is the key to unlocking a new class of security detection, compliance, and threat remediation. So do the hundreds of organizations that send important security notifications to employees from Kolide’s Slack app.
• 
  
• Collectively, we know that organizations can dramatically lower the actual risks they will likely face with a structured, message-based approach. More importantly, they’ll be able to engage end-users to fix nuanced problems that can’t be automated.
• 
  
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• 
  
• Countless security professionals from companies including Notion, FullStory, & BambooHR have shared how crucial it has been to have Drata as a trusted partner in the compliance process.
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Links:

• Smashing Security 263: Problèmes de Weefeee, AI artists, and Web 3.0 — In which Mark Stockley discusses the NFT he created in Smashing Security's honour.
• Graham or Carole? - Untitled Collection #173407394 — OpenSea.
• Mark Stockley reveals the Smashing Security NFT is being resold... for $3 million — Twitter.
• Секрет Шехерезады. Яхта Путина за 75 000 000 000 ₽ — YouTube (best watched with the subtitles on...)
• ‘Mysterious’: the $700m superyacht in Italy some say belongs to Putin — The Guardian.
• "The road from Moscow to Kyiv passes through Belgravia" — Video from Led By Donkeys, posted on Twitter.
• Burger King owner says operator in Russia refuses to shut shops — The Guardian.
• Pitcairn Islands relays most spam per person, reveals Sophos — Sophos.
• Pitcairn spam haven, North Korea definitely isn't — The Guardian.
• Sabotage: Code added to popular NPM package wiped files in Russia and Belarus — Ars Technica.
• Activists are targeting Russians with open-source "protestware" — MIT Technology Review.
• JavaScript library updated to wipe files from Russia systems — The Register.
• After ‘protestware’ attacks, a Russian bank has advised clients to stop updating software — The Verge.
• Irish petrol station offers 24-7 laundry service — Petrol Plaza.
• Clip from Mel Gibson movie "ransom", starring Mel Gibson — YouTube.
• FBI warns of ‘virtual kidnapping’ scheme executed on Miami couple — Local 10.
• FBI Chicago Warns Public About Virtual Kidnapping Scams — FBI.
• Former Employee Charged With Defrauding Apple, Money Laundering, And Tax Crimes — Department of Justice.
• U.S. charges former Apple buyer with defrauding more than $10 million from company — Reuters.
• Mandy — BBC iPlayer.
• Diane Morgan as Mandy — YouTube.
• Heardle — The daily musical intros game.
• Color wheel, a color palette generator — Adobe Color.
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Germany tells consumers to stop using Kaspersky anti-virus products, OSINT reveals a secret government department (with help from an Apple AirTag), and the UK says it's taking a hard line on cyberflashing.

All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Chris Kirsch.

Visit https://www.smashingsecurity.com/266 to check out this episode’s show notes and episode links.

Follow the show on Twitter at @SmashinSecurity, or on the Smashing Security subreddit, or visit our website for more episodes.

Remember: Follow us on Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app, to catch all of the episodes as they go live. Thanks for listening!

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

Theme tune: "Vinyl Memories" by Mikael Manvelyan.

Assorted sound effects: AudioBlocks.

Special Guest: Chris Kirsch.

Sponsored By:

• Drata: Is your organization finding it difficult to achieve compliance and scale its security posture? As G2’s highest rated cloud compliance software, Drata streamlines your SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, GDPR & HIPAA compliance and provides 24-hour continuous control monitoring so you focus on scaling securely. Drata is also the only compliance automation platform with a private tenant database. That’s like having your cake and securing it too
• 
  
• Countless security professionals from companies including Notion, FullStory, & BambooHR have shared how crucial it has been to have Drata as a trusted partner in the compliance process.
• 
  
• Listeners of Smashing Security can get 10% off Drata and waived implementation fees at smashingsecurity.com/drata
• Kolide: Kolide is a SaaS app that sends employees important, timely, and relevant security recommendations concerning their Mac, Windows, and Linux devices, right inside Slack.
• 
  
• Kolide is perfect for organizations that want to move beyond a traditional lock-down model and move to one where employees are educated about security and device management while fixing nuanced problems. We call this approach Honest Security.
• 
  
• You can try Kolide on an unlimited number of devices with all its features for free and without a credit card for 14 days.

Support Smashing Security

Links:

• Kaspersky Has Close Ties to Russian Spies — Bloomberg.
• Kaspersky hit by new below-the-belt sauna spy attack — Graham Cluley.
• A practical guide to making up a sensation — Eugene Kaspersky.
• US intelligence chiefs don’t trust Kaspersky. But why? — Graham Cluley.
• UK cyber agency targets Kaspersky in warning on Russian software — Reuters.
• Group-IB founder arrested in Moscow on state treason charges — The Record.
• BSI warning about using Kaspersky.
• Kaspersky statement regarding the BSI warning — Kaspersky.
• Collateral Damage — on Cybersecurity — Open letter from Eugene Kaspersky.
• Apple's AirTag uncovers a secret German intelligence agency — Apple Insider.
• Bundesservice Telekommunikation — wie ich versehentlich eine Tarnbehörde in der Bundesverwaltung fand — Lilith Wittmann.
• Bundesservice Telekommunikation — enttarnt: Dieser Geheimdienst steckt dahinter — Lilith Wittmann.
• Loophole in law means men will still get away with sending penis pictures — Cambridgeshire Live.
• Cyberflashing to be criminalised under new online safety bill — The Independent.
• ‘Cyberflashing’ to become a criminal offence — UK Government.
• Is there hidden sexual abuse going on in your school? — TES Magazine.
• 13 genius ways to respond to unsolicited dick pics — Cosmopolitan.
• Whatever Happened to Pizza at McDonald's?
• A Podcast Answers a Fast-Food Question That Nobody Is Asking — The New York Times.
• Forget Adnan and Richard Simmons, ‘Whatever Happened to Pizza at McDonald’s?’ Is the Mystery-Solving Podcast You Need — Vulture.
• Cook-Out on Oculus Quest — Oculus.
• Cook-Out: A Sandwich Tale trailer — YouTube.
• 100,000 Stars.
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The most famous policeman in Nigeria is in hot water over his links to Hushpuppi, has your Amazon Echo been talking to itself, and can an AI girlfriend save your marriage?

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

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

Visit https://www.smashingsecurity.com/265 to check out this episode’s show notes and episode links.

Follow the show on Twitter at @SmashinSecurity, or on the Smashing Security subreddit, or visit our website for more episodes.

Remember: Follow us on Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app, to catch all of the episodes as they go live. Thanks for listening!

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

Theme tune: "Vinyl Memories" by Mikael Manvelyan.

Assorted sound effects: AudioBlocks.

Special Guest: Jason Meller.

Sponsored By:

• Drata: Is your organization finding it difficult to achieve compliance and scale its security posture? As G2’s highest rated cloud compliance software, Drata streamlines your SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, GDPR & HIPAA compliance and provides 24-hour continuous control monitoring so you focus on scaling securely. Drata is also the only compliance automation platform with a private tenant database. That’s like having your cake and securing it too
• 
  
• Countless security professionals from companies including Notion, FullStory, & BambooHR have shared how crucial it has been to have Drata as a trusted partner in the compliance process.
• 
  
• Listeners of Smashing Security can get 10% off Drata and waived implementation fees at smashingsecurity.com/drata
• Kolide: At Kolide, we believe the supposedly Average Person is the key to unlocking a new class of security detection, compliance, and threat remediation. So do the hundreds of organizations that send important security notifications to employees from Kolide’s Slack app.
• 
  
• Collectively, we know that organizations can dramatically lower the actual risks they will likely face with a structured, message-based approach. More importantly, they’ll be able to engage end-users to fix nuanced problems that can’t be automated.
• 
  
• Try Kolide Free for 14 Days; no credit card required.

Support Smashing Security

Links:

• Abba Kyari shows off that he has had a road named after him — Instagram.
• Birthday wishes for Abba Kyari — Instagram.
• Smashing Security episode 186: This one's for all the Karens! — In which we first discussed the Hushpuppi case.
• Adeola Fayehun discusses Abba Kyari's arrest — YouTube.
• Alexa Privacy – Learn how Alexa works — Amazon.
• Alexa vs Alexa (AvA).
• Amazon Alexa compromise possible through own speakers — The Register.
• The Rescue — Wikipedia.
• The Rescue — Apple TV.
• 'I fell in love with my AI girlfriend - and it saved my marriage' — Sky News.
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Why might Russian EV chargers be displaying an anti-Putin message? Why are Telegram groups sharing sharing explicit images of women without their consent? And who is watching you in the workplace?

All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Jessica Barker.

Visit https://www.smashingsecurity.com/264 to check out this episode’s show notes and episode links.

Follow the show on Twitter at @SmashinSecurity, or on the Smashing Security subreddit, or visit our website for more episodes.

Remember: Follow us on Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app, to catch all of the episodes as they go live. Thanks for listening!

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

Theme tune: "Vinyl Memories" by Mikael Manvelyan.

Assorted sound effects: AudioBlocks.

Special Guest: Jessica Barker.

Sponsored By:

• Kolide: Kolide is a SaaS app that sends employees important, timely, and relevant security recommendations concerning their Mac, Windows, and Linux devices, right inside Slack.
• 
  
• Kolide is perfect for organizations that want to move beyond a traditional lock-down model and move to one where employees are educated about security and device management while fixing nuanced problems. We call this approach Honest Security.
• 
  
• You can try Kolide on an unlimited number of devices with all its features for free and without a credit card for 14 days.

Support Smashing Security

Links:

• Three ways you can help the people of Ukraine from the UK — The Guardian.
• How You Can Help Ukraine — London City Hall.
• Ukrainian Astronomers Named a Star 'Putin Is a D**khead' — The Atlantic.
• Video of hacked EV charger — AutoEnterprise on Facebook.
• Explanation for EV charger outage — Rosseti on Facebook.
• Russian Electric Vehicle Chargers Hacked, Tell Users ‘PUTIN IS A DICKHEAD’ — Vice.
• Roblox Currency ‘Robux’ Is Outperforming the Ruble — Vice.
• Why won’t Telegram take down my naked photos? — BBC News.
• Telegram revenge porn scandal: police investigate as more than 50 000 men share explicit content of women and underaged girls — Politika.
• Ex-Leeds student OnlyFans star rakes in £2m pouring beans on herself and pretending to be a giant — Leeds Live.
• Post Office scandal explained: Why a public inquiry is examining the Horizon sub-postmasters scandal — Inews.
• TUC warns against employee monitoring after Post Office scandal — Personnel Today.
• Post Office scandal: What the Horizon saga is all about — BBC News.
• I’ll be watching you - What is workplace monitoring? — TUC.
• TUC and legal experts warn of “huge gaps” in British law over use of AI at work — TUC.
• Intrusive worker surveillance tech risks “spiralling out of control” without stronger regulation, TUC warns — TUC.
• Kind of Bloop — An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis' Kind of Blue.
• Space Force — Netflix.
• Who Won the US Military Vs. Space Force Trademark Dispute? — CBR.
• 'Space Force? Is that Real?' Guardians Still Struggling with an Unconvinced Public — Military.com.
• Yoga with Kassandra — YouTube.
• Five Parks Yoga w/ Erin Sampson — YouTube.
• YOGA UPLOAD with Maris Aylward — YouTube.
• Breathe and Flow — YouTube.
• Two Birds Yoga — YouTube.
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Ooh la la! Horreur Wi-Fi en France! Some folks have experienced the drawbacks of Web 3.0 as their NFTs are stolen, and should computers own the copyright over the art they produce?

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

And don't miss our featured interview with Sean Herbert of baramundi.

Visit https://www.smashingsecurity.com/263 to check out this episode’s show notes and episode links.

Follow the show on Twitter at @SmashinSecurity, or on the Smashing Security subreddit, or visit our website for more episodes.

Remember: Follow us on Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app, to catch all of the episodes as they go live. Thanks for listening!

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

Theme tune: "Vinyl Memories" by Mikael Manvelyan.

Assorted sound effects: AudioBlocks.

Special Guests: Mark Stockley and Sean Herbert.

Sponsored By:

• Kolide: At Kolide, we believe the supposedly Average Person is the key to unlocking a new class of security detection, compliance, and threat remediation. So do the hundreds of organizations that send important security notifications to employees from Kolide’s Slack app.
• 
  
• Collectively, we know that organizations can dramatically lower the actual risks they will likely face with a structured, message-based approach. More importantly, they’ll be able to engage end-users to fix nuanced problems that can’t be automated.
• 
  
• Try Kolide Free for 14 Days; no credit card required.
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• 
  
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Support Smashing Security

Links:

• Les dents, le brouilleur et au lit! — ANFR.
• Dad takes down town's internet by mistake to get his kids offline — Bleeping Computer.
• TV licenses and detector vans in the United Kingdom — Wikipedia.
• My first impressions of web3 — Moxie Marlinspike.
• Graham or Carole? - NFT for sale — OpenSea.
• $1.7 million in NFTs stolen in apparent phishing attack on OpenSea users — The Verge.
• Art Copyright, Explained — Artsy.
• The US Copyright Office says an AI can’t copyright its art — The Verge.
• Ruling on "A Recent Entrance to Paradise" — Copyright Review Board.
• Appeals court blasts PETA for using selfie monkey as ‘an unwitting pawn’ — The Verge.
• 'Monkey selfie' case: Photographer wins two year legal fight against Peta over the image copyright — The Independent.
• What I Wish They Taught Me about Copyright in Art School — Library of Congress.
• Who is Banksy and why did he lose the trademark for four of his most famous works? — Sydney Morning Herald.
• The Tinder Swindler — Netflix.
• You Can’t Make This Up: The Making of a Swindler (Part one) — Podcast going behind the scenes of "The Tinder Swindler."
• Why insects do not (and cannot) attack healthy plants — YouTube.
• Eye of the Storm — BBC iPlayer.
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How does Microsoft hope to defeat the macro terror? How is the UK Government trying to influence the public's opinion on end-to-end encryption? And what is MoviePass hoping to do with your eyeballs?

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

Visit https://www.smashingsecurity.com/262 to check out this episode’s show notes and episode links.

Follow the show on Twitter at @SmashinSecurity, or on the Smashing Security subreddit, or visit our website for more episodes.

Remember: Follow us on Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app, to catch all of the episodes as they go live. Thanks for listening!

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

Theme tune: "Vinyl Memories" by Mikael Manvelyan.

Assorted sound effects: AudioBlocks.

Special Guest: Thom Langford.

Sponsored By:

• Kolide: Kolide is a SaaS app that sends employees important, timely, and relevant security recommendations concerning their Mac, Windows, and Linux devices, right inside Slack.
• 
  
• Kolide is perfect for organizations that want to move beyond a traditional lock-down model and move to one where employees are educated about security and device management while fixing nuanced problems. We call this approach Honest Security.
• 
  
• You can try Kolide on an unlimited number of devices with all its features for free and without a credit card for 14 days.
• baramundi: Optimize your IT processes with the baramundi Management Suite and make optimal use of resources by automating time-consuming routine tasks.
• 
  
• Stay in control and maximize your productivity by automating routine tasks. The Unified Endpoint Management Software can be installed and implemented quickly, is intuitive to use, has a modular structure and offers a high level of usability and transparency.
• 
  
• Try out the free 30-Day full version for yourself today at baramundi.com/smashingsecurity

Support Smashing Security

Links:

• Macros from the internet are blocked by default in Office — Microsoft.
• A potentially dangerous macro has been blocked — Microsoft.
• The Death of "Please Enable Macros" and What it Means — Check Point Research.
• No Place to Hide.
• Why we need EndToEndEncryption and why it’s essential for our safety, our children’s safety, and for everyone’s future — Alec Muffet.
• Smashing Security episode 68: Malware from outer space!
• MoviePass Relaunching Next Summer — Variety.
• MoviePass is back but with eyeball tracking to make you watch ads — Daily Mail.
• MoviePass 2.0 Wants to Track Your Eyeballs to Make Sure You Watch Ads — Vice.
• Starlink.
• 2000 AD - the Galaxy's Greatest Comic!
• Future Shock! The Story of 2000AD — IMDB.
• 40 Strange Etiquette Rules Through the Years — Good Housekeeping.
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Who's wearing the pyjamas while they take down North Korea's internet? Is it a case of cop or cosplay in Oregon? And what's to fear about the metaverse?

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

Visit https://www.smashingsecurity.com/261 to check out this episode’s show notes and episode links.

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Links:

• Space Station Photos Show North Korea at Night, Cloaked in Darkness — National Geographic.
• North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet — Wired.
• North Korean hackers attempt to hack security researchers investigating zero-day vulnerabilities — Hot for Security.
• Woman ‘Tricked’ to Believe She Was a D.E.A. Agent Trainee, Official Says — New York Times.
• Alleged DEA imposter in Portland took woman on ‘ride-alongs,’ had her flash fake badge to find informants among homeless people, complaint says — Oregon Live.
• Meta forced to add ‘personal boundaries’ to the Metaverse after woman was sexually harassed in virtual reality — The Independent.
• Horizon Worlds metaverse app could pose danger for kids, experts say — Washington Post.
• The metaverse has a groping problem already — MIT Technology Review.
• Sexual harassment in the metaverse? Woman says she was virtually raped — USA Today.
• Talking Telephone Numbers Breakdown w/ separated Transmission & Talkback audio — YouTube.
• 2013 Tony Awards Director On FIRE!!! — YouTube.
• Ghosts — BBC iPlayer.
• Chateau Snavely — A terrible Fawlty Towers remake from 1978, with Betty White.
• Amanda's By the Sea — A terrible Fawlty Towers remake from 1983, with Bea Arthur.
• Payne — A terrible Fawlty Towers remake from 1999, which doesn't star anyone from The Golden Girls.
• Couples Therapy — BBC iPlayer.
• Couples Therapy trailer — YouTube.
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