Smashing Security

030: GDPR - The good and the bad

June 22nd, 2017  |  26 mins 43 secs

gdpr

What is GDPR, and what does it mean to your business? Carole Theriault and Graham Cluley are joined by special guest Kevin Gorsline to discuss.

029: Exploits to get your English teeth into

June 15th, 2017  |  38 mins 8 secs

mac, malware, microsoft, mouse, patch tuesday, vulnerability

Microsoft gives us a Patch Tuesday shock, malware grows up for the Mac, and your mouse movements might reveal if you're an identity thief.

024: Reality Winner, Gordon Ramsay and a leaky bucket

June 8th, 2017  |  38 mins 8 secs

amazon, aws, cloud, gordon ramsay, nsa, reality winner

Evidence of Russia hacking the US election leaks from the NSA and Reality is not a winner, confidential data is accidentally exposed in the cloud by a defence contractor, and Gordon Ramsay has a few choice words for his hacking father-in-law.

023: Covfefe

May 31st, 2017  |  40 mins 27 secs

blackmail, british airways, donald trump, facebook, germany, twitter

Hackers are blackmailing cosmetic surgery patients, and threatening to release their naked photos. A British Airways IT snafu causes travel chaos for thousands. And Germany is threatening to throw hefty fines at Facebook if it can't police its content...

022: Walk this way... to defeat biometrics

May 25th, 2017  |  31 mins 47 secs

biometrics, mac, malware, samsung

The Samsung Galaxy S8 claims that its iris recognition technology provides "airtight security", but the Chaos Computer Club knows better and shows how it can be easily bypassed. Australian researchers create a wearable gizmo that authenticates you...

021: WannaCry - Who's to blame?

May 18th, 2017  |  35 mins 15 secs

hp, malware, ransomware, vulnerability, wannacry

The WannaCry ransomware has struck! But before we tackle that subject, and who we should blame for one of the highest profile malware attacks for years, we discuss how HP has been unwittingly capturing the keystrokes of its laptop users. Then we...

020: Phishing for Donald Trump

May 11th, 2017  |  30 mins 45 secs

donald trump, handbrake, mac, malware, phishing

Gizmodo's attempt to reveal Donald Trump's administration ineptitude when it comes to cybersecurity fails to impress. Mac users are warned that the HandBrake DVD-ripping app has been compromised by malware.  And will the US Army insist IT security professionals spend months ironing their bedsheets..?

019: The Love Bug virus

May 4th, 2017  |  29 mins 20 secs

love bug, malware

On May 4th 2000, the Love Bug virus (also known as ILOVEYOU or LoveLetter) rapidly spread around the world, clogging up email systems. Computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault are joined this week by special guest John Hawes...

018: Windows is a virus. True or False?

April 27th, 2017  |  30 mins 42 secs

Security firm Webroot drops a clanger when it declared Windows was malicious and borked customers' PCs, millennials are streaming a lot of movies illegally, and blackmailers are targeting members of the Ashley Madison cheating site again. All this and...

017: Data breaches, zero day exploits, and toenail clippings

April 20th, 2017  |  30 mins 37 secs

burger king, data breach, google home, malware, microsoft, vulnerability, zero-day

Hotel malware has been stealing guests' payment card details... again, should businesses relay delay rolling out vulnerability patches, and Burger King's Whopper TV ad campaign tries to take advantage of viewers' Google Home devices with predictable...

016: Wonga wronga!

April 13th, 2017  |  27 mins 15 secs

data breach, diabetic, malware, spyware, wonga

Spyware companies are filmed plotting to break global sanctions to ship surveillance and spying equipment to dodgy authoritarian regimes, an unsecured database exposed diabetics’ sensitive data, and a massive data breach leaves hundreds of...

015: Bad vibrations

April 6th, 2017  |  26 mins 54 secs

android, epicenter, nfc, samsung, sex toy

Don't let an internet-enabled sex toy make your most private moments oh-so-public. Samsung's wannabe-Android-killer is found lacking.  And did you hear about the firm that is micro-chipping its employees?  All this and more is discussed by...

014: Protecting webmail - a Smashing Security splinter

March 30th, 2017  |  30 mins 33 secs

2fa, fappening, passwords, phishing

What can you do to better protect your online email accounts? In this special "splinter" episode (or should it be a "shard"?) regular hosts Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault discuss with Paul Ducklin tips on how to defend your...

013: Assault with a deadly tweet

March 23rd, 2017  |  33 mins 58 secs

animated gif, social engineering, twitter

Graham is embarrassed by a Twitter security snafu. How an animated GIF could prove deadly. Social engineering threats against your workforce. And will you be able to do any work on your laptop next time you catch an airplane?  All this and more...

012: Eau de Eugene Kaspersky

March 16th, 2017  |  28 mins 43 secs

android, eugene kaspersky, malware, wikileaks

Androids pre-installed with malware - can the supply chain be trusted? Will WikiLeaks help vendors get zero-days fixed? And what on earth has the Kaspersky marketing department dreamt up this time? Graham Cluley, Carole Theriault and special guest...

011: WikiLeaks and the CIA

March 9th, 2017  |  33 mins 45 secs

border control, cia, ransomware, signal, telegram, whatsapp, wikileaks

Has the CIA been using a Weeping Angel to spy on you via your Smart TV? Have WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal been compromised? What is the secret of the SATAN ransomware? And can you avoid having your data searched as you pass through border...