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Hoaxes, Huawei and chatbots - with Mikko Hyppönen Dec 12, 2018

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The curious case of George Duke-Cohan, Huawei's CFO finds herself in hot water, and the crazy world of mobile phone mental health apps.

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 special guests Mikko Hyppönen from F-Secure and technology journalist Geoff White.

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Three years in jail for teenager who spammed out school bomb threats, and made hoax call about hijacked plane — Graham Cluley.
Schools bomb hoaxes: Bodycam shows George Duke-Cohan arrest — BBC News.
Bomb Threat Hoaxer, DDos Boss Gets 3 Years — Krebs on Security.
Estonian DDoS revenge worm crafter jailed — The Register.
Canada could be at risk of ‘nasty’ retaliation from China — Vancouver Star.
Bad news for scammers. Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou has been released on bail — Graham Cluley.
Child advice chatbots fail to spot sexual abuse — BBC News.
Alibaba already has a voice assistant way better than Google’s — MIT Technology Review.
Making a Murderer — Netflix.
Making a Murderer lawyer Kathleen Zellner is true crime's new star — BBC News.
Rebutting a Murderer podcast — Spreaker.
DOOM (Shareware Episode) — Internet Archive.
Doom (1993 video game) — Wikipedia.
Points of Egress — Love + Radio.
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Sextorting the US army, and a Touch ID scam Dec 05, 2018

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Fitness apps exploit TouchID through a sneaky user interface trick, tech giants claim to have a plan to banish passwords, and you won't believe who was behind a sextortion scam that targeted over 400 members of the US military.

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Military criminal investigative organizations crack down on sextortion ring targeting service members — NCIS.
Scam iOS apps promise fitness, steal money instead — WeLIveSecurity.
Mastercard, Microsoft to Advance Digital Identity Innovations — Mastercard press release.
China's Surveillance State Should Scare Everyone — The Atlantic.
Mastercard and Microsoft to jointly develop universal digital ID technology — IT Pro.
A Victorian point and click adventure game — Bertram Fiddle.
Bertram Fiddle: A Bleaker Predicklement Trailer — YouTube.
Oura Ring sleep and activity tracker.
Learn how Oura ring works.
Marriott warns of hack. 500 million Starwood hotel guests' personal data could be exposed — Graham Cluley.
Marriott breach: What to do when hackers steal your passport number — CNet.
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Google Maps, Fed phishing, and Grinch bots Nov 28, 2018

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How are scammers stealing your money through Google Maps? Why did the FBI create a fake FedEx website? And how are US senators hoping to stop Grinch bots ruining Christmas?

And don't miss our special bonus interview about passwords with Rachael Stockton of LastPass, sponsors of this week's show.

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A new bank scam using Google Maps loophole — The Hindu.
Google’s sorry that this crudely offensive image of the Apple logo turned up in Maps — The Washington Post.
‘Edwards Snow Den’ infiltrates the White House on Google Maps — The Washington Post.
The FBI Created a Fake FedEx Website to Unmask a Cybercriminal — Motherboard.
what3words | Addressing the world.
When the FBI rather than the fraudsters make a fake FedEx website — Graham Cluley.
Fingerlings — YouTube.
Lawmakers introduce bill to stop bots from ruining holiday shopping — CNET.
The Internet Arcade.
Alley Cat — The Internet Arcade.
On November 26th, a mole will land on Mars — The Oatmeal.
Why did Apple remove the iPhone headphone jack? — Fast Company.
A simple, cheap and very reliable solution for phones without headphone jack — Reddit.
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Facebook, Nietzsche, Tesla, and Nicole Nov 21, 2018

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Tesla takes customer service a step too far, is it a romantic gesture or stalking when you email 246 women called Nicole, and Carole finds herself in a Facebook dilemma.

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.

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How I Went From Tesla Delivery Hell To Tesla Giving Me Control Of Their Site Forums With Over 1.5 Million Tesla Account Contacts — DansDeals.com.
Customer Complains About Tesla Forums, Tesla Accidentally Gives Him Control Over Them — Motherboard.
A Guy Emailed 246 Nicoles Trying To Find The One He Met At A Bar And Now They're All Friends — Buzzfeed News.
Facebook exodus: 44 percent of American users ages 18-29 have deleted app — CNBC.
How Facebook employees reacted to NYT report on leadership, scandals — Business Insider.
Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis — New York Times.
Facebook’s top execs ‘make tobacco executives look like Mister Rogers’ — Recode.
Facebook Morale, Hurt by Share Drop, Suffers Another Hit — Bloomberg.
“I Hope It Cracks Who She Is Wide Open”: Inside Silicon Valley, Many Have Long Known Sheryl Sandberg Isn’t a Saint — Vanity Fair.
Now eight parliaments are demanding Zuckerberg answers for Facebook scandals — TechCrunch.
The Beatles - Glass Onion (2018 Mix) — YouTube.
The Beatles (White Album) 50th Anniversary Edition — The Beatles.
American Animals.
Krissy Brierre-Davis (@krissys_kitchen) — Twitter.
iPhone hack: Thousands of people just discovered the 'life-changing' space bar trick — The Independent.
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The world's most evil phishing test, and cyborgs in the workplace Nov 14, 2018

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Does your employer want to turn you into a cyborg? Was this phishing test devised by an evil genius? And how did a cinema chain get scammed out of millions, time and time again...?

Oh, and the subject of erasable pens comes up again.

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 Scott Helme.

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Cinema Chain Sees Bad Movie Script Play Out As It Loses Millions In Email Scam — Martijn Grooten writes on Forbes.
Internet con men ripped off Pathe NL for €19m in sophisticated fraud — DutchNews.nl.
Court documents describing the scam — It's in Dutch. Don't ask us to translate it.
Tweet from InfoSecSherpa describing diabolical phishing test.
BBC Click on Twitter: "Could you be paying for things using just your hand?" — Scott Helme is filmed getting an implant.
The future prospects of embedded microchips in humans as unique identifiers: the risks versus the rewards (PDF) — University of Wollongong, Australia.
Alarm over talks to implant UK employees with microchips — The Guardian.
I, Tonya trailer — YouTube.
Rocketbook.
Introducing Rocketbook Everlast — YouTube.
Bohemian Rhapsody Performed in 42 Styles — YouTube.
Open Culture.
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An Instagram nightmare, crazy iPhone deaths, and election hack claims Nov 07, 2018

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One travel blogger finds you don't have to be Kylie Jenner to be targeted by an Instagram hacker. When 40 iPhones at a hospital mysteriously die, what could be the explanation? And, surprise surprise, political parties in the USA are throwing around hacking accusations.

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Kylie Jenner — Instagram.
Hacker, angry over unpaid $200, deletes Abu Dhabi-based travel blogger's account — Gulf News.
Of Travels & Tales — Delaine Maria D’Costa's blog.
Delaine Maria D’Costa's Instagram account
IG hacked! — Delaine Maria D’Costa posts an Instagram story about how she was hacked.
Instagram finally supports third-party authentication apps for greater account security — Graham Cluley.
Spooky miasmic gas bricks hospital iPhones (mwah ha ha ha) — Naked Security.
MRI disabled every iOS device in facility — Reddit.
Voting Machine Manual Instructed Election Officials to Use Weak Passwords — Motherboard.
After failed hacking attempt SoS launches investigation into Georgia Democratic party — Press release on Secretary of State's website (which, by the way, doesn't use HTTPS).
Mid-term elections 2018: Race rows mire campaign home stretch — BBC News.
The Cybersecurity 202: Brian Kemp's hacking allegations highlight the challenges of preserving voter confidence — The Washington Post.
Georgia governor’s race roiled by election security charges — Associated Press.
Elections security: Federal help or power grab? — Politico (2016).
Georgia Officials Quietly Patched Security Holes They Said Didn't Exist — ProPublica.
The Erasable Pen - Pilot Frixion - Gear for Back to School — YouTube.
FriXion Family by Pilot
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari — We're not listing the Pick of the Week Mark eventually chose as it's too rude.
Isle of Dogs movie
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Ethical dilemmas, Girl Scouts, and porn-loving US officials Oct 31, 2018

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Who deserves to die in a driverless car crash? Who has been sniffing around the Girl Scouts' email account? And just how long would it take for a geologist to visit 9,000 adult web pages?

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Self-Driving Cars: The Ethical Dilemma — YouTube.
Moral Machine — A platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence, such as self-driving cars.
Moral Machine - Human Perspectives on Machine Ethics — YouTube.
Girl Scouts' personal information affected by recent data breach — ABC30.
Girl Scouts Alerted to Possible Data Breach — Infosecurity Magazine.
Where does Girl Scout cookie money go? — SAS Learning Post.
"You're a Big Scrud" — YouTube.
USGS IT Security vulnerabilities (PDF) — Office of Inspector General management advisory.
Porn-Watching Employee Infected Government Networks With Russian Malware, IG Says — NextGov.
100 Feds Found to Be Frequent Workplace Porn-Watchers — Government Executive.
Ten Years Ago — See what the internet was doing...
The Wayback Machine
Dead Rock Stars podcast
Free Rice
World Food Programme
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Rule 34, Twitter scams, and Facebook fails Oct 24, 2018

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A Facebook friend request leads to arrest, Twitter scams ride again via promoted ads, and adult websites expose their members. Oh, and Graham finds out what Rule 34 is.

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.

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Robber contacts victim on Facebook to apologize, Reading police say — Reading Eagle
Maria Varmazis spots a promoted, verified scam tweet — Twitter
Why is Elon Musk promoting this Bitcoin scam? (He’s not) — Naked Security
Twitter thought Elon Musk's bizarre tweets were evidence he'd been hacked — Graham Cluley
Hack on 8 adult websites exposes oodles of intimate user data — Ars Technica
Wife Lovers website snapshot — Wayback Machine
Friends Reunited — Wikipedia
The Beano — Wikipedia
Former CIA Chief Explains How Spies Use Disguises — YouTube
What Makes ‘The Good Place’ So Good? — The New York Times
The Good Place Season 1 Trailer — YouTube
Trolley problem — Wikipedia
IRL Glasses Block All the Screens Around You — Wired
IRL Glasses - Glasses that Block Screens by Ivan Cash — Kickstarter
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IoT failures, and Donald Trump dating disaster Oct 17, 2018

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Yes, Smashing Security has reached its 100th episode!

Despite our celebratory mood, we don't forget to take a look at the security stories of the last week - including an alarming IoT failure and a dating app disaster for Donald Trump devotees.

All this and much more is discussed in this very special 100th edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.

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The very first episode of Smashing Security: "One cup, two hotel guests" — Sorry about the poor audio quality. Turns out we got better...
Yale UK announces some "unplanned network maintenance" — Twitter
Yale UK's network maintenance isn't going well — Twitter
Cllr Steve Wortley is not very happy with Yale UK — Twitter
Beth is not impressed with Yale UK either — Twitter
Kirstie Pendry doesn't fancy waking her entire street at 5am — Twitter
Yale Smart Home Borkage: Server Issues Cause Alarm App Fail — Computer Business Review
Yale Weds: Just some system maintenance, nothing to worry about. Yale Thurs: Nobody's smart alarm app works — The Register
Hundreds of 'smart' locks bricked by flubbed remote update — Graham Cluley
Hotel guests locked in their rooms by ransomware? It doesn't make sense — Graham Cluley
71% of Tinder users say political differences are a deal breaker — MSNBC
New Dating App for Trump Supporters Seeks to ‘Make America Date Again’ — Newsweek
The ‘Donald Daters’ Trump Dating App Exposed Its Users’ Data — Motherboard
Donald Daters, a dating app for Trump supporters, leaked its users’ data — Techcrunch
How I “found” the database of the Donald Daters App
Robert Baptiste's video of Donald Daters vulnerability — Twitter
Blue Peter — Wikipedia
Tony Walsh's beautiful tribute to Blue Peter will give you goosebumps — CBBC on Twitter
Janet Ellis — Wikipedia
Sophie Ellis-Bextor — Wikipedia
Tony Walsh's performance of 'This Is The Place' at the Manchester attack vigil — YouTube
A Scary Time by Lynzy Lab — YouTube
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099: Passwords - A Smashing Security splinter (replay) Oct 10, 2018

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With Carole in the wilds of Canada, and Graham knee-deep in a security conference in Glasgow, we drag an episode out from the archives of February 2017 - looking at the thorny subject of passwords.

Join computer security veterans Graham Cluley, Carole Theriault, and Vanja Švajcer as they offer some advice and tips for computer users.

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Special Guest: Vanja Švajcer.

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