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049: Hacking funeral homes, crypto mining websites, and careful with that hairspray
Scammers show a lack of imagination after hacking a funeral home, more websites are secretly stealing visitors' resources to mine for cryptocurrency,…
8 years, 7 months ago
048: KRACK, North Korea, and an 18th century cyber attack
KRACK! Has the Wi-Fi vulnerability got you worried? Did North Korea hack a British TV company to prevent a "slanderous farce" from being made? And wh…
8 years, 7 months ago
047: Kaspersky, AI, and a well-handled data breach
America turns the heat up on Kaspersky anti-virus, Disqus announces a data breach, Elon Musk plans a bolthole on Mars to escape our robot overlords, …
8 years, 7 months ago
046: Good beard bad beard
Bearded man entangled in dark web drugs market bust, Google researches how to make browser security warnings less confusing, and (ahem) "bedroom ente…
8 years, 7 months ago
045: Deloitte fail, CCleaner, and dotards on Twitter
Deloitte suffers an embarrassing hack, CCleaner spreads malware, and Twitter explains why it isn't planning to ban Donald Trump from Twitter anytime …
8 years, 8 months ago
044: Bonus behind the scenes - shower time
Carole wants to know why Graham keeps FaceTiming her from the shower.
Can you help solve the mystery?
("Bonus" behind-the-scenes content.)
Follow the sh…
8 years, 8 months ago
043: Backups - a necessary evil?
In this special "splinter" episode of the "Smashing Security" podcast we tackle the tricky subject of backups - when did you last backup your data? h…
8 years, 8 months ago
042: Equifax, BlueBorne, and the iPhone X
Equifax's shambolic response to its huge data breach, a scary-sounding Bluetooth exploit, and Apple's iPhone X comes with Face ID.
All this and more i…
8 years, 8 months ago
041: Hacking Instagram, facial failures, and spying bosses
It's easy to phone up a celebrity on Instagram following security breach, facial recognition at Notting Hill Carnival can't tell the girls from the b…
8 years, 8 months ago
040: The show that cost Troy Hunt 14 dollars
Are public figures lying about being hacked? What were online criminals doing with 711 million email addresses? And how could scammers profit from Hu…
8 years, 9 months ago