Carole details how companies are spying on their stay-at-home workers, Mikko Hyppönen discusses the trustworthiness of video chat apps, and Graham gets embarrassed when he admits he's bought a Facebook Portal for his in-laws.

All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning "Smashing Security" podcast with Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.

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Theme tune: "Vinyl Memories" by Mikael Manvelyan.

Assorted sound effects: AudioBlocks.

Special Guest: Mikko Hyppönen.

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Links:

• Herrasmieshakkerit — Mikko's security podcast (in Finnish) with Tomi Tuominen.
• Video trailer for Herrasmieshakkerit — YouTube.
• Has Houseparty really been hacked? $1 million reward offered to unearth who is behind widespread claims — Graham Cluley.
• Houseparty declares that all accounts are safe — Twitter.
• Houseparty announces $1,000,000 bounty — Twitter.
• Zoom Meetings Do Not Support End-to-End Encryption — The Intercept.
• The most popular smartphones in 2019 — DeviceAtlas.
• The Zoom IPO (with Santi Subotovsky) — Acquired podcast.
• Cyber Volunteers – Protecting and Responding for our healthcare services! — CV19.
• Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers — Bloomberg.
• Your Bosses Are Trying To Spy On You Now More Than Ever — Futurism.
• Companies are using webcams to monitor employees working from home — Business Insider.
• Something Rhymes with Purple — Acast.
• Susie Dent on Twitter.
• Virtual choir from Finland: "Song of the Fearless" — YouTube.
• Someone's built the entire Earth in Minecraft - to scale — Eurogamer.
• The Earth in Minecraft, 1:1 scale ...for the first time — YouTube.
• Smashing Security merchandise (t-shirts, mugs, stickers and stuff)

This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis:

OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy