John Leyden
Special guest
John Leyden is a security correspondent at tech news site The Register, where he has worked for the last 17 years. Prior to that he worked for other technology publishers and as a crime reporter at a local newspaper in Manchester.
John Leyden has been a guest on 2 episodes.
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082: World Cup cybersecurity, crypto crashes, and a bang of a password fail
June 14th, 2018 | 39 mins
bitcoin, coinrail, cryptocurrency, football, gun control, hiking, password, russia, tapas, tv5 monde, vpnfilter, world cup
Coinrail cryptocurrency exchange goes offline after hack, Russia appears to be 'live testing' cyber attacks, and Florida stopped running background checks on gun buyers because of forgotten password.
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049: Hacking funeral homes, crypto mining websites, and careful with that hairspray
October 26th, 2017 | 44 mins 56 secs
cryptocurrency, laptop ban, monero, scam
Scammers show a lack of imagination after hacking a funeral home, more websites are secretly stealing visitors' resources to mine for cryptocurrency, and everyone is very confused about the USA's airline laptop ban.