We found 10 episodes of Smashing Security with the tag “bitcoin”.
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168: The Bitcoin fraud factory
March 5th, 2020 | 52 mins 10 secs
bitcoin, clearview, cryptocurrency, facial recognition, scam, twitter, ukraine
Fraudsters steal millions from those hoping to jump on the Bitcoin bandwagon, Twitter verifies a fake US politician, and it's another face palm for facial recognition.
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167: Coronavirus scams and an exaggerated lion
February 27th, 2020 | 56 mins 21 secs
bitcoin, business email compromise, coronavirus, exaggerated lion, romance scams, scams
Scammers from Africa are preying on US businesses, a drug dealer makes a mistake when hiding his Bitcoin fortune, and the Coronavirus pandemic is causing scams to soar and raising questions about facial recognition.
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128: Shackled ankles, photo scrapes, and SIM card swaps
May 16th, 2019 | 50 mins 34 secs
ankle bracelet, bitcoin, cryptocurrency, ever, facial recognition, police, privacy, sim swap
A bad software update causes big headaches for Dutch police, but brings temporary freedom to criminals. SIM swaps are in the news again as fraudsters steal millions. And does your cloud photo storage service have a dirty little secret?
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101: Rule 34, Twitter scams, and Facebook fails
October 25th, 2018 | 50 mins 32 secs
bitcoin, cia, data breach, elon musk, facebook, privacy, scam, the good place, twitter
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.
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096: Bribing Amazon staff, and blinking deepfakes
September 20th, 2018 | 33 mins 50 secs
amazon, bitcoin, data breach, deepfakes, john mcafee
Amazon staff are being bribed to delete negative reviews and leak data, deepfakes are getting more dangerous, an update on John McAfee's bitcoin bet, and our guest gets a shock...
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089: Data breaches, ransomware, Bitcoin robberies, and typewriters
August 2nd, 2018 | 44 mins 31 secs
bitcoin, cosco, cryptocurrency, data breach, dixons, legion, port out, ransomware, sim swap, slow burn
Ransomware rears its head again, Dixons Carphone reveals its data breach was almost 1000% worse than they previously thought, a man is accused of stealing five million dollars worth of cryptocurrency through hijacking mobile phones, and a Canadian guy called Norman is rushing to get the typewriters out of storage.
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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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060: Meltdown, Spectre, and personal devices in the White House
January 11th, 2018 | 40 mins 16 secs
biochip, biohacking, bitcoin, casefile, donald trump, fire and fury, meltdown, pomodoro, portal knights, ripple, spectre
The chips are down, as tech companies struggle to protect against the Meltdown and Spectre flaws. The White House is getting tough on leakers by banning personal devices from the West Wing. And someone has been embedding a Bitcoin wallet into their hand...
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059: An intro to Bitcoin and Blockchain
January 4th, 2018 | 26 mins 28 secs
bitcoin, blockchain, cryptocurrency, wallet
What's all the fuss about cryptocurrencies? How can you protect your Bitcoin wallet? And how does the Blockchain work?
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058: Face ID, Firefox, and Windows SNAFUs, plus Bitcoin FOMO
December 21st, 2017 | 42 mins 46 secs
apple, bitcoin, face id, facial recognition, firefox, keeper, microsoft, mr robot, windows
Is Face ID racist? Has Mr Robot infected your Firefox browser? Has Microsoft pushed a buggy password manager onto your Windows PC?