Smashing Security

Fishing fanatics find themselves in deep water, Teslas go haywire after an update, and is there actually some good news about IoT?

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 Ken Munro.

Visit https://www.smashingsecurity.com/251 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: Ken Munro.

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• Notice of a cyber security incident — Announcement from Angling Direct on London Stock Exchange.
• Angling Direct: Criminals net website of UK fishing site — The Register.
• Tweet from user of Angling Direct. — Twitter.
• Tweet by Angling Direct customer — Twitter.
• Internet-connected radio equipment and wearable radio equipment — European Commission.
• Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020 — US LIbrary of Congress.
• Information privacy: connected devices — Californian senate bill.
• Tesla Full Self-Driving recall came amid increased regulatory scrutiny - The Washington Post — Washington Post.
• Tesla recalls nearly 12,000 U.S. vehicles over software communication error — Reuters.
• The World of the Unknown series of books: UFOs, Ghosts, and Monsters — Usborne.
• World of the Unknown UFOs trailer — YouTube.
• Airwheel SR5 Intelligent Suitcase.
• Hijacking smart luggage — Pen Test Partners.
• AeroPress Coffee Maker.
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A game about Squid Game pulls the rug from under cryptocurrency investors in what appears to be a scam, PayPal hackers use a devious trick to break into 2FA-protected accounts, and have you received a job offer that's too good to be true?

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

Plus don't miss our featured interview with the CEO and president of Qualys, Sumedh Thakar.

Oh, and huge thanks to Darknet Diaries' Jack Rhysider, F-Secure's Mikko Hyppönen, The Cyberwire's Dave Bittner, and Host Unknown's Andrew Agnês, Thom Langford, and Javvad Malik for their special contributions to this episode.

Visit https://www.smashingsecurity.com/250 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: Andrew Agnês, Dave Bittner, Jack Rhysider, Javvad Malik, Jessica Barker, Mikko Hyppönen, Sumedh Thakar, and Thom Langford.

Sponsored By:

• Qualys: Qualys Security Conference 2021 is taking place in Las Vegas November 15-18 2021, and you can attend either in person or online.
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• Hear from experts such as Chris Krebs, former Director of the DHS & CISA, learn strategies and tactics to secure your organization, and network with your peers and other Qualys experts to accelerate your career.
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• To learn more about attending the Qualys Security Conference 2021 in person or online visit smashingsecurity.com/qualyslasvegas
• 1Password: From start-up to enterprise, 1Password makes it easy for your team to store, generate and share strong passwords. The less time you need to spend dealing with hacks, phishing scams, and lost passwords, the better.
• 
  
• Not just for IT and Security teams – all kinds of teams like Finance, HR, Legal, and Marketing can also store and share business credit cards, sensitive documents and shared logins in 1Password.
• 
  
• Work securely from home or in the office. 1Password allows secure access to logins and important resources anywhere you work.
• 
  
• Instantly deploy, grant and revoke access to shared vaults. You can securely add new team members and recover locked-out user accounts.
• 
  
• Find out more and try 1Password free for 14 days at 1Password.com

Support Smashing Security

Links:

• Squid Game cryptocurrency rockets in first few days of trading — BBC News.
• Squid Game crypto token collapses in apparent scam — BBC News.
• 'I Lost Everything': How Squid Game Token Collapsed — CoinMarketCap.
• Squid Game Cryptocurrency Scammers Make Off With $3.3 Million — Gizmodo.
• The Booming Underground Market for Bots That Steal Your 2FA Codes — Vice.
• Scammers Are Using Fake Job Ads to Steal People’s Identities — ProPublica.
• FBI Warns Cyber Criminals Are Using Fake Job Listings to Target Applicants’ Personally Identifiable Information — FBI.
• Don’t let job scams block your path forward — FTC Consumer Information.
• Pit — Wikipedia.
• Pit game description — Board Game Geek.
• Metal Shop Masters — Netflix.
• Metal Shop Masters trailer — YouTube.
• Techjunkie Tools.
• 15 Secret Websites — Alphr.
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Ransomware attackers have got hurt feelings, what does Netflix know about you, and why are schoolkids stealing lavatory seats?

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 1Password's Matt Davey from the "Random but Memorable" podcast.

Visit https://www.smashingsecurity.com/249 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: Matt Davey.

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• Broaden your knowledge, starting with the basic building blocks of security. Learn at your own pace and learn how to create form an entire ecosystem of tools and tactics that help keep you safe on the internet.
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Links:

• Governments turn tables on ransomware gang REvil by pushing it offline — Reuters.
• REvil ransomware - what you need to know about the criminal enterprise — Tripwire.
• REvil ransomware rampages following Kaseya supply-chain attack — Graham Cluley.
• Meat supplier JBS probed after paying $11 million ransom to attackers. US Congress has a beef with those who pay ransoms to cybercriminals — Graham Cluley.
• Hitting the BlackMatter gang where it hurts: In the wallet — Emsisoft.
• Ransomware gang outraged at “bandit-mugging behavior of the United States” after REvil group pushed offline — Graham Cluley.
• All the ways Netflix tracks you and what you watch — Wired.
• The inside story of Bandersnatch, the weirdest Black Mirror episode yet — Wired.
• Netflix’s Secret Special Algorithm Is a Human — The New Yorker.
• Why Netflix Might Run Ads: Analysts See $1 Billion Revenue Upside — Variety.
• Devious Licks Trend — Know Your Meme.
• TikTok's 'devious licks' challenge source of destruction in Summit County schools, businesses — MSN.
• TikTok Bans 'Devious Licks' Trend Which Saw High School Students Arrested — Newsweek.
• TikTok to be in congressional hotseat over school-trashing content — Reuters.
• Kid destroys printer for TikTok in front of his parents — Reddit.
• To combat all the devious licks, we are now met with angelic yields — TikTok.
• Woodmere Avenue Width Restriction Crashes Compilation — YouTube.
• Woodmere Avenue Crashes YouTube channel.
• Moment 11 vehicles including a police van smash into steel post in just four weeks — Daily Mail.
• Jon Richardson & The Futurenauts podcast.
• Dead Air podcast.
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A journalist is threatened with prosecution after choosing to "View Source" on a public webpage, Amazon Ring owners might be in line for a hefty fine if their neighbours complain, and is the school lunch queue a good place for facial recognition?

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/248 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: Dave Bittner.

Sponsored By:

• 1Password: 1Password has put its 15 years of security experience into creating 1Password University, a fun, dynamic, and free learning resource for people of all skill levels.
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• Broaden your knowledge, starting with the basic building blocks of security. Learn at your own pace and learn how to create form an entire ecosystem of tools and tactics that help keep you safe on the internet.
• 
  
• Whether you’re a business leader looking to create a culture of security in the workplace, or you’re just trying to understand why you need a unique password for each account, 1Password University’s growing catalogue of courses has something for you.
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• Visit 1Password University for free online security resources, made for everyone.

Support Smashing Security

Links:

• Missouri teachers’ Social Security numbers at risk on state agency’s website — St Louis Post-Despatch.
• Missouri governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website — Missouri Independent.
• State of Missouri Addresses Data Vulnerability — State of Missouri Office of Administration press release.
• Governor Parson Press Conference MO Education Website Hack — YouTube.
• Doctor set for £100k pay-out after judge ruled neighbour's Ring doorbell cameras breached privacy — Daily Mail.
• The pandemic is testing the limits of face recognition — MIT Technology Review.
• ICO to step in after schools use facial recognition to speed up lunch queue — The Guardian.
• The most sassy bride in history of Married At First Sight Australia — YouTube.
• Married at First Sight Australia — All 4. (Series 6 is the one to watch, according to Graham)
• Dark Air with Terry Carnation — Audioboom.
• Vigil — BBC iPlayer.
• Art Bell — Wikipedia.
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A married couple are accused of selling nuclear sub secrets, Facebook continues to make young lives a misery, and a school hacker lets loose one heck of a prank.

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/247 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: Maria Varmazis.

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Links:

• Maryland Nuclear Engineer and Spouse Arrested on Espionage-Related Charges — US Department of Justice.
• Couple charged with leaking US nuclear sub designs — The Register.
• Facebook will add new safety features, notably for teens, after whistleblower leak — CNBC.
• Unfollow Everything cease-and-desist letter from Facebook — Louis Barclay.
• IoT Hacking and Rickrolling My High School District — WhiteHoodHacker.
• Board Game Arena — Play board games online from your browser.
• Foundation — Official Trailer — YouTube.
• Foundation — Apple TV.
• Film Courage.
• Film Courage — YouTube.
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Facebook suffers a massive (and very public) failure, Britain announces plans for counter-attacking nation states in cyberspace, and there's a tragic story related to ransomware.

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.

And don't miss our featured interview with Attivo Network's Carolyn Crandall.

Visit https://www.smashingsecurity.com/246 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: Carolyn Crandall and Chris Kirsch.

Sponsored By:

• 1Password: 1Password has put its 15 years of security experience into creating 1Password University, a fun, dynamic, and free learning resource for people of all skill levels.
• 
  
• Broaden your knowledge, starting with the basic building blocks of security. Learn at your own pace and learn how to create form an entire ecosystem of tools and tactics that help keep you safe on the internet.
• 
  
• Whether you’re a business leader looking to create a culture of security in the workplace, or you’re just trying to understand why you need a unique password for each account, 1Password University’s growing catalogue of courses has something for you.
• 
  
• Visit 1Password University for free online security resources, made for everyone.
• Attivo Networks: It’s time to get serious about preventing and detecting credential abuse, privilege escalation, and entitlement exposures.
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• Attivo Networks gives you visibility on identity exposures, vulnerabilities, and attack paths from endpoints to Active Directory to the cloud - all while creating an active defense, delaying and derailing attacks, empowering the defender and eliminating an attacker's advantage.
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Links:

• Update about the October 4th outage — Facebook Engineering.
• More details about the October 4 outage — Facebook Engineering.
• Facebook Whistleblower Says Company Chooses ‘Profits Over Safety’ All The Time — Vice.
• Inside Facebook’s Push to Defend Its Image — The New York Times.
• Conspiracy Theories About Facebook Outage Spread Even Without Facebook — Vice.
• Facebook outage: what went wrong and why did it take so long to fix after social platform went down? — The Guardian.
• A Hospital Hit by Hackers, a Baby in Distress: The Case of the First Alleged Ransomware Death — Wall Street Journal.
• Baby's Death Alleged to Be Linked to Ransomware — Threatpost.
• US unites 30 countries to disrupt global ransomware attacks — Bleeping Computer.
• Interpol urges police to unite against 'potential ransomware pandemic' — Bleeping Computer.
• More than 20,000 arrests in year-long global crackdown on phone and Internet scams — Interpol.
• Lancashire partners welcome NCF to the North West — Lancashire Enterprise Partnership
• National Cyber Force to be based in Samlesbury — BBC News.
• BoardGameGeek.
• I Expect You To Die — Schell Games.
• Midnight Mass — Netflix.
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While Julian Assange was killing time in the Ecuador's embassy in London, the CIA were trying to dream up ways to kill him, and urine trouble if you put your trust in an IoT lavatory.

All this and 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 nobody at all.

Visit https://www.smashingsecurity.com/245 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.

Sponsored By:

• 1Password: Around 80% of business data breaches result from weak or reused passwords. Using 1Password can close the gaps in your company’s security, combat shadow IT, and help your employees stay both productive and secure, wherever they are.
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• Kidnapping, assassination and a London shoot-out: Inside the CIA's secret war plans against WikiLeaks — Yahoo News.
• The seven-year itch: Assange's awkward stay in the embassy — The Guardian.
• Assange Held Legal Meetings in Ladies' Toilet Due to Paranoia: Report — Business Insider.
• Julian Assange smeared faeces on walls of Ecuadorian embassy, interior minister claims — The Independent.
• Julian Assange: Why Ecuador ended his stay in London embassy — BBC News.
• Julian Assange dragged from Ecuadorean embassy — BBC News.
• The smart toilet era is here! Are you ready to share your analprint with big tech? — The Guardian.
• Assume Nothing - Hack Attack — BBC Sounds.
• The Art Museum — Phaidon.
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How much do you trust the people who work at your VPN provider? How are folks fighting facial recognition? And what on earth is Ray-Ban thinking getting into bed with Facebook?

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.

Visit https://www.smashingsecurity.com/244 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: Mark Stockley.

Sponsored By:

• 1Password: Around 80% of business data breaches result from weak or reused passwords. Using 1Password can close the gaps in your company’s security, combat shadow IT, and help your employees stay both productive and secure, wherever they are.
• 
  
• 1Password makes the secure thing to do the easiest thing to do.
• 
  
• Instant control, effortless management. Quickly deploy 1Password to a single team, multiple teams, or your entire enterprise. Provision employees using trusted systems, respond quickly to domain breach reports, and offer every business user a free 1Password Families account for work-from-home security.
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• Find out more and try 1Password free for 14 days at 1Password.com

Support Smashing Security

Links:

• Three Former U.S. Intelligence Community and Military Personnel Agree to Pay More Than $1.68 Million to Resolve Criminal Charges Arising from Their Provision of Hacking-Related Services to a Foreign Government — Department of Justice.
• DarkMatter.
• Ex-NSA cyberspies reveal how they helped hack foes of UAE — Reuters.
• Daniel Gericke and ExpressVPN – Official Response — ExpressVPN.
• Trust, but verify: An in-depth analysis of ExpressVPN's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week — ZDNet.
• Facebook debuts its Ray-Ban Stories smart sunglasses — TechCrunch.
• Facebook warned over ‘very small’ indicator LED on smart glasses, as EU DPAs flag privacy concerns — TechCrunch.
• Mark Zuckerberg introduces Ray-Ban Stories — YouTube.
• Computer Vision Dazzle Camouflage — CV Dazzle.
• Researchers Defeated Advanced Facial Recognition Tech Using Makeup — Vice.
• Dodging Attack Using Carefully Crafted Natural Makeup — YouTube.
• How to Play the Piano by James Rhodes — Amazon UK.
• Music and the inner self, TEDx talk by James Rhodes — YouTube.
• Yamaha P-45 — Thomann.
• Origins: How the Earth Shaped Human History by Lewis Dartnell — Amazon UK.
• Life Lines — BBC Radio 4.
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A Walmart press release says it's jumping aboard the cryptocurrency bus - but is it true? Theranos's Elizabeth Holmes goes on trial, and have you updated your Apple gadgets to protect against the latest NSO Group spyware attack?

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 Host Unknown's Thom Langford.

Visit https://www.smashingsecurity.com/243 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:

• 1Password: Around 80% of business data breaches result from weak or reused passwords. Using 1Password can close the gaps in your company’s security, combat shadow IT, and help your employees stay both productive and secure, wherever they are.
• 
  
• 1Password makes the secure thing to do the easiest thing to do.
• 
  
• Instant control, effortless management. Quickly deploy 1Password to a single team, multiple teams, or your entire enterprise. Provision employees using trusted systems, respond quickly to domain breach reports, and offer every business user a free 1Password Families account for work-from-home security.
• 
  
• Find out more and try 1Password free for 14 days at 1Password.com
• Attivo Networks: It’s time to get serious about preventing and detecting credential abuse, privilege escalation, and entitlement exposures.
• 
  
• Attivo Networks gives you visibility on identity exposures, vulnerabilities, and attack paths from endpoints to Active Directory to the cloud - all while creating an active defense, delaying and derailing attacks, empowering the defender and eliminating an attacker's advantage.
• 
  
• Learn more and kick credential attacks to the curb, by visiting attivonetworks.com

Support Smashing Security

Links:

• Fake Walmart news release claimed it would accept cryptocurrency — BBC News.
• Alerts and story on Walmart to accept Litecoin payments withdrawn — Reuters.
• NOTICE TO DISREGARD - Walmart Inc. — Globe Newswire
• Walmart Statement in Response to Fake Litecoin Press Release — Walmart.
• Litecoin Foundation ‘Screwed Up,’ Lee Says of Walmart Snafu — Bloomberg.
• Walmart-Litecoin Pact Hoax Jolts Crypto Market — YouTube.
• Official statement from Litcoin Foundation — Twitter.
• Apple rushes to block 'zero-click' iPhone spyware — BBC News.
• Pegasus: Spyware sold to governments 'targets activists' — BBC News.
• Smashing Security #237: NuNa, NuNu, NaNa — Podcast episode where we previously discussed NSO Group's activities.
• The rise and fall of Theranos: so many lessons in a drop of blood — The Conversation.
• Theranos Didn’t Just Harm Investors — Bloomberg.
• Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes 'lied and cheated', trial hears — BBC News.
• Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Is on Trial. Silicon Valley Is Watching — Wired.
• #susanalbumparty: The ad campaigns that accidentally (or not) launched filthy hashtags — BBC.
• ‎Bad Blood: The Final Chapter — Apple Podcasts.
• "The Trip" trailer — YouTube.
• TraffickCam.
• 101 Great Cuss/Swear Word Alternatives — WeHaveKids.
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ProtonMail finds itself in a privacy pickle, the big problem with Facebook's algorithmic amplification, and strange things are happening on Banksy's website.

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/242 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: Dave Bittner.

Sponsored By:

• 1Password: Around 80% of business data breaches result from weak or reused passwords. Using 1Password can close the gaps in your company’s security, combat shadow IT, and help your employees stay both productive and secure, wherever they are.
• 
  
• 1Password makes the secure thing to do the easiest thing to do.
• 
  
• Instant control, effortless management. Quickly deploy 1Password to a single team, multiple teams, or your entire enterprise. Provision employees using trusted systems, respond quickly to domain breach reports, and offer every business user a free 1Password Families account for work-from-home security.
• 
  
• Find out more and try 1Password free for 14 days at 1Password.com
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Links:

• ProtonMail logged IP address of French activist after order by Swiss authorities — TechCrunch.
• Important clarifications regarding arrest of climate activist — ProtonMail.
• Information for Law Enforcement Authorities — ProtonMail.
• Tweet by Andy Yen, founder of ProtonMail.
• Why Facebook Won’t Stop Pushing Propaganda — Mother Jones.
• Fake Banksy NFT sold through artist's website for £244k — BBC News.
• A fake Banksy sold for $330K is a perfect symbol of a wild NFT market — The Next Web.
• Banksy was warned about website flaw before NFT hack scam — BBC News.
• McCartney 3,2,1 - Trailer — YouTube.
• Classic Albums — BBC Four.
• Backyard Coaster POV | Little Thunder — YouTube.
• Inside the Most Impressive Backyard Roller Coaster I've Ever Seen: Little Thunder — Coaster 101.
• Pre-owned Rides for sale.
• Netflix Drops Trailer for New Norwegian Vampire Comedy Post Mortem: No One Dies in Skarnes — Netflix.
• Post Mortem: No One Dies in Skarnes — Netflix.
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