Smashing Security

036: Flash? Clunk flush... and hacking security researchers

August 3rd, 2017  |  44 mins 57 secs

adobe flash, billboard, fireeye, mandiant, reply all, tickled, vulnerability

A security threat researcher is badly hacked in a revenge attack. Some people want to save Adobe Flash, but is that wise? And a poorly-secured electronic billboard starts displaying offensive images...

035: Up the Roomba with mandatory Chinese spyware

July 27th, 2017  |  37 mins 24 secs

china, jing wang, rehab, roomba, spyware, uyghur

China is forcing people to install spyware on their smartphones, young cyberoffenders are offered rehab, and robot vacuum cleaners want to sell maps of the inside of your house to tech firms.

034: The pen is mightier than the password

July 20th, 2017  |  48 mins 35 secs

ashley madison, biometrics, fleabag, porn

The UK government wants you to give your credit card details to porn sites, Ashley Madison offers compensation to the people whose lives it ruined, and an adult website wants you to pass its unorthodox and below-the-belt biometric identity check... gulp!

033: 1Password, net neutrality, and spatchcock chicken

July 13th, 2017  |  42 mins 4 secs

1password, driverless cars, net neutrality, password manager, the red pill

Is password manager 1Password treating its customers unfairly? Are autonomous cars driving us around the bend? And what is this Net Neutrality thing anyway?

032: The iPhone 8, a data breach at the AA, and a mystery no show

July 6th, 2017  |  35 mins 26 secs

aa, apple, biometrics, data breach, ear wax, facial recognition, iphone 8

The iPhone 8 is on its way and may use 3D facial recognition rather than a fingerprint sensor to lock out intruders, and the UK's Automobile Association claims it hasn't leaked any credit card data, so why is it getting so upset about security researchers publishing screenshots of leaked data?

031: Petya (don't know the name of this ransomware)

June 29th, 2017  |  44 mins 37 secs

alexa, amazon echo, driverless cars, notpetya, petya, ransomware

Another major ransomware outbreak rattles the world - but no-one can decide what it's called, the danger posed to driverless cars by kangaroos, and do you really want an Amazon Echo Show?

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...