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Microsoft, McAfee, and mayhem Mar 10, 2021

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Is it the end of the road for John McAfee? Is PornHub more legitimate than Facebook? And do you know as much as you think you do about the Microsoft Exchange Server mega-hack?

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.

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Special Guest: Dave Bittner.

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John McAfee 'disguised as Guatemalan street hawker with a limp' — The Telegraph.
John McAfee Wanted for Murder — Gizmodo.
John McAfee says he infected laptops with malware, spied and stole passwords from Belize officials — Naked Security.
John McAfee is running for president — Graham Cluley.
Good luck John McAfee, socially engineering a corpse… — Graham Cluley.
How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus — YouTube.
John David McAfee And Executive Adviser Of His Cryptocurrency Team Indicted In Manhattan Federal Court For Fraud And Money Laundering Conspiracy Crimes — US Department of Justice.
IsLegitSite — Check if a website is legitimate or not.
Microsoft Exchange Server Market Share and Competitor Report — Datanyze.
Four new hacking groups have joined an ongoing offensive against Microsoft’s email servers — MIT Technology Review.
A Basic Timeline of the Exchange Mass-Hack — Krebs on Security.
New nation-state cyberattacks — Microsoft.
The Kilobyte’s Gambit — A 1k chess game.
The Repair Shop — Netflix.
The Repair Shop — BBC One.
Sideways — BBC Radio 4.
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Would you cuddle this revolting robot? - with Robert Llewellyn Mar 03, 2021

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Actor, presenter and writer Robert Llewellyn, famous for playing the part of Kryten in the science-fiction comedy "Red Dwarf," joins us as we discuss robots gone rogue, electric vehicle nightmares, and creepy companions.

All this and much much more can be found in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Robert Llewellyn - famous for "Fully Charged," "Scrapheap Challenge," and as Kryten on "Red Dwarf."

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'Drunk' robot vacuums spark complaints from owners — BBC News.
Roomba S9+ weird behaviour on version 3.10.8 — Reddit.
Time lapse video of i7+ attempting to return to clean base after 3.12.8 update — Reddit.
Robot vacuum cleaners can eavesdrop on your conversations, researchers reveal — Bitdefender BOX blog.
The Hidden Cyber Risks of Electric Vehicles — Upstream.
Mindfulness, laughter and robot dogs may relieve lockdown loneliness – study — The Guardian.
Charlie — YouTube.
Aibo — YouTube.
Lovot — YouTube.
Petit Qoobo — YouTube.
Flatcat — YouTube.
For All Mankind trailer — YouTube.
For All Mankind — Apple TV.
"Diary of an MP's Wife: Inside and Outside Power" by Sasha Swire. — Amazon.
"I Care A Lot" trailer — YouTube.
I Care A Lot — IMDB.
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Playboy, prison, and digital ploys - with Garry Kasparov Feb 24, 2021

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World-chess-champion-turned-activist Garry Kasparov returns to the show as we discuss a romance scammer with plenty of time on his hands, the surge in sextortion, and how social media is being swamped with claims of fake snow.

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 Garry Kasparov.

Visit https://www.smashingsecurity.com/216 to check out this episode’s show notes and episode links.

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Special Guest: Garry Kasparov.

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Dating apps scam committed by criminal from inside prison — BBC News.
File on 4 - The Dangers of Dating Apps — BBC Sounds.
Playboy Magazine, November 1989 — Including Garry Kasparov's interview and sexy photo shoot.
Sextortion email scams — Avast.
Has Fake Snow Been Falling on the US? — Snopes.
TikTok Users Are Trying (and Failing) to Prove the Snow in Texas Is Fake — Daily Beast.
TikTok Users Are Burning Snowballs in Viral Videos to 'Prove' the Snow is Fake — Gizmodo.
Griddy: Why a Texas electricity company is under fire for astronomical bills during winter storm — The Independent.
Ted Cruz Mariachi Band Performed at a Discount — TMZ.
Slow TV Map.
The Queen's Gambit — Golden Globes.
Soulmates (TV series) — Wikipedia.
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Sexy cows banned on Facebook Feb 17, 2021

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The FBI is hoping that its hunt for Capitol rioters will go viral, a cryptocurrency con lets its perpetrator live the high life... for a while, and just what does Facebook have against cows and a team of cricketers?

Visit https://www.smashingsecurity.com/215 to check out this episode’s show notes and episode links.

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Special Guest: Zoe Kleinman.

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The FBI Wants You To Make These Photos Of Capitol Insurrectionists Go Viral — Huffington Post.
Capitol Violence — FBI.
Sedition Hunters.
Boston Bombing: The Anatomy of a Misinformation Disaster — The Atlantic.
Iced Earth’s singer and bassist quit band "in response to recent events and circumstances" — NME.
Capitol Insurrection: More Than 230 People Charged And What We Know About Them — NPR.
'Overtly sexual' cow blocked as Facebook ad — BBC News.
What is Stefan Qin’s edge in crypto? Fraud, says the SEC — Digital Finance.
Founder Of $90 Million Cryptocurrency Hedge Fund Charged With Securities Fraud And Pleads Guilty In Federal Court — Department of Justice.
A crypto kid had a $23,000-a-month condo. Then the feds came — Fortune.
Radio Garden — Explore live radio by rotating the globe.
Dodow.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service mind control scene — YouTube.
Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema — BBC.
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Lockdown love scams, SolarWinds, and a data deletion bungle Feb 10, 2021

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Fingerprints and DNA records have been deleted from the UK's police database, the SolarWinds hack continues to wreak havoc and raise questions, and we have some advice for how to fall in love safely under lockdown...

Visit https://www.smashingsecurity.com/214 to check out this episode’s show notes and episode links.

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Theme tune: "Vinyl Memories" by Mikael Manvelyan.

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Special Guest: Alan Woodward.

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Police probes compromised after computer records deleted — BBC News.
Home Office admits 15,000 people deleted from police records — The Guardian.
Home Office admits 'coding error' wiped 15,000 police records — IT Pro.
Boris Johnson adviser quits after being overruled on Priti Patel bullying report — The Guardian.
UK's families put on fraud alert — BBC News.
Security Advisory — SolarWinds.
Suspected Chinese hackers used SolarWinds bug to spy on U.S. payroll agency – sources — Reuters.
A Second SolarWinds Hack Deepens Third-Party Software Fears — Wired.
Microsoft: No Evidence SolarWinds Was Hacked Via Office 365 — CRN.
What You Need to Know About Romance Scams — FTC.
Interpol warns of romance scam artists using dating apps to promote fake investments — ZDNet.
Man lost £38,000 to scammers posing as single women on Match.com — Metro.
Romance scams rank number one on total reported losses — FTC.
This romance scam tricks victims in laundering federal funds — Better Business Bureau.
Lexulous.
Scrabble fans slam 'sparkly abomination' new app — BBC News.
‎Best Bubble Breaker — Apple App Store.
Jawbreaker (Windows Mobile game) — The original BubbleBreaker?
IKEA Klippan, 2 Seater sofa cover — Bemz.
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No security smarts at Mensa, long-term identity theft, and GameStop's share frenzy Feb 03, 2021

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Mensa - the social club for people with high IQs - is accused of not being so smart about security, an Indian TV journalist gets an unbelievable job offer from Harvard, and we take a look at what's being going on with GameStop short selling.

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/213 to check out this episode’s show notes and episode links.

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Two British Mensa directors quit over cyber security concerns — Financial Times.
Mensa Website Hacked After Britain’s Smartest Folk Failed To Secure Passwords — Forbes.
Poor password security at the British branch of Mensa? — Graham Cluley.
I Am Nidhi Razdan, Not A Harvard Professor, But... — NDTV.
GameStop stock price — MarketWatch.
GameStop: What is it and why is it trending? — BBC News.
An uprising against Wall Street? Hardly. GameStop was about the absurdity of the stock market — The Guardian.
GameStop short squeeze fuels new stock-market services tracking Reddit messages — MarketWatch.
The Basics of Shorting Stock — The Balance.
The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty — BBC iPlayer.
SketchUp.
The Office ASMR — A Podcast to Sleep To.
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Dutch leaks, Peeping Toms, and researchers under fire Jan 27, 2021

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Google warns security researchers that North Korean hackers are pretending to be their buddies, sensitive information connected to Coronavirus testing is available for sale in the Netherlands, and is a Peeping Tom at your home security provider spying on you through CCTV?

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/212 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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Theme tune: "Vinyl Memories" by Mikael Manvelyan.

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Special Guest: Maria Varmazis.

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Illegale handel in privégegevens miljoenen Nederlanders uit coronasystemen GGD — RTL News.
Video conference of EU Defence Ministers where a Dutch journalist gatecrashed the system — YouTube.
John van den Heuvel — Wikipedia.
Dutch COVID-19 patient data sold on the criminal underground — ZDNet.
Smashing Security episode 175: Zoom deepfakes, Zardoz, and 'Rona tracing.
Bonus: Smashing Security After Dark #2 - Zardoz commentary. — Smashing Security on Patreon.
New campaign targeting security researchers — Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG).
Google: North Korean hackers have targeted security researchers via social media — ZDNet.
ADT Employee: I Spied on Naked Customers Through Security Cams — Gizmodo.
ADT sued after employee accessed more than 200 customers’ home security systems in Dallas area — Dallas Morning News.
The Investigation — BBC iPlayer.
The Investigation: why my drama about Kim Wall doesn't name her killer — The Guardian.
Tobias Lindholm on his take of the Kim Wall murder investigation — Nordisk Film & TV Fond.
‘Babylon 5 Remastered’ now available to buy or stream on HBO Max — Engadget.
High Maintenance — HBO.
Hear the New Trailer for Wondery's Podcast 'The Apology Line' — Rolling Stone.
Allan Bridge — Wikipedia.
The Apology Line — Wondery.
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Fleeking, COVID-19 hacking, and Bitcoin balls-ups Jan 20, 2021

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Your privacy may be at risk if you're on Fleek, hackers not only steal COVID-19 vaccine data but then tamper with it to spread mistrust, and the Bitcoin bungles keep on coming...

Visit https://www.smashingsecurity.com/211 to check out this episode’s show notes and episode links.

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Special Guest: Ron Eddings.

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Report: X-Rated Social Media App Exposes Users in Massive Data Breach — VPNMentor.
Hackers Leak Stolen Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Data — Threatpost.
Hackers alter stolen regulatory data to sow mistrust in COVID-19 vaccine — Ars Technica.
EU regulator: Hackers 'manipulated' stolen vaccine documents — AP News.
Smashing Security 058: Face ID, Firefox, and Windows SNAFUs, plus Bitcoin FOMO
Bitcoin FOMO Calculator.
Smashing Security 167: Coronavirus scams and an exaggerated lion
Man offers Newport council £50m if it helps find bitcoins in landfill — The Guardian.
Acting in Film Master Class - By Michael Caine — YouTube.
Damn Fine Story: Mastering the Tools of a Powerful Narrative — Book by Chuck Wendig.
Back to Life — Netflix.
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DC rioters ID'd, Energydots, and ransomware gets you in a pickle Jan 13, 2021

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Penile penal problems, identifying rioters in Washington DC, and can a sticker protect you from radiation?

And don't miss our featured interview with CrowdSec's Philippe Humeau.

Visit https://www.smashingsecurity.com/210 to check out this episode’s show notes and episode links.

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Special Guests: Dave Bittner and Philippe Humeau.

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Smashing Security's Christmas live stream — YouTube.
Smashing Security 199: A few tech cock-ups, and one cock lock-up.
Taking a screwdriver to unlock your IoT sex toy is nuts — Graham Cluley.
Zip tie guy Twitter thread.
FBI Arrests Man Who Carried Zip Ties Into Capitol — The New York Times.
SmartDot radiation-protection phone stickers 'have no effect' — BBC News.
Fact check: Low-powered magnets do not protect against EMF emission — USA Today.
Moving Out game — Team 17.
Moving Out trailer — YouTube.
Poly Bridge — Dry Cactus.
The Cipher — BBC Sounds.
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Vengeful ex-staff, bad Santas, and iOS app nutrition facts Dec 16, 2020

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Watch out for Santas wearing hoodies! A rogue employee takes down WebEx for thousands of people, and Apple forces apps to show a privacy health warning.

All this and much much more is discussed in the final episode of the "Smashing Security" podcast for 2020, with computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Maria Varmazis.

And don't miss our special featured interview with Kroll's Mari DeGrazia.

Visit https://www.smashingsecurity.com/209 to check out this episode’s show notes and episode links.

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Special Guests: Maria Varmazis and Mari DeGrazia.

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