Smashing Security

117: SWATs on a plane

February 28th, 2019  |  57 mins 24 secs

facebook, insurance, linkedin, malware, perfect night in, rude words, swatting, tetris, twitter

Why is Tampa's mayor tweeting about blowing up the airport? Are hackers trying to connect with you via LinkedIn? And has Maria succeeded in her attempt to survive February without Facebook?

Plus, after last week's discussion about the legal battle between Mondelez and Zurich Insurance, we have a chat with security veteran Martin Overton to take a deeper look into cyberinsurance.

116: Stalking debtors, Facebook farce, and a cyber insurance snag

February 21st, 2019  |  45 mins 55 secs

back to the future, china, facebook, insurance, malware, nike, notpetya, tracking, vulnerability

How would you track someone who owed you money? What was the colossal flaw Facebook left on its website for anyone to exploit and hijack accounts? And what excuse are insurance companies giving for not paying victims of the NotPetya malware millions of dollars?

113: FaceTime, Facebook, faceplant

January 31st, 2019  |  45 mins 50 secs

apple, facebook, facetime, iot, iphone, japan, privacy, vulnerability

A FaceTime bug allows callers to see and hear you before you answer the phone, Facebook's Nick Clegg tries to convince us the social network is changing its ways, and IoT hacking is big in Japan.

112: Payroll scams, gold coin heists, web giants spanked

January 24th, 2019  |  43 mins 7 secs

boars, business email compromise, coin, facebook, gdpr, google, payroll, privacy, the office quest

Business email compromise evolves to target your company's payroll, how the world's largest gold coin was stolen from a Berlin museum, and are internet giants feeling the heat yet over data security?

110: What? You can get paid to leave Facebook?

January 10th, 2019  |  51 mins 8 secs

bear brook, bug bounty, exploit, facebook, hacking, louis theroux, marie kondo, twitter, vulnerability, zerodium

Twitter and the not-so-ethical hacking of celebrity accounts, study discovers how you can pay someone to quit Facebook for a year, and the millions of dollars you can make from uncovering software vulnerabilities.

105: Facebook, Nietzsche, Tesla, and Nicole

November 22nd, 2018  |  44 mins 17 secs

email, facebook, nietzsche, privacy, tesla

Tesla takes customer service a step too far, is it a romantic gesture or stalking when you email 246 women called Nicole, and Carole finds herself in a Facebook dilemma.

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.

098: A Facebook omnishambles

October 4th, 2018  |  51 mins 28 secs

2fa, conference, conservative, facebook, hack, star trek, the one show, vulnerability

Millions of Facebook user accounts put at risk after hack! The UK Conservative party's conference app causes a privacy omnishambles! And Facebook (again) has been doing something naughty with the phone numbers you give it for security reasons! Oh, and Maria gets very excited about something to do with Star Trek.

085: Doctor Who, Facebook patents, and Bob's Burgers

July 5th, 2018  |  37 mins 10 secs

bob's burgers, data leak, dating, doctor who, facebook, jodie whittaker, privacy

Doctor Who's TARDIS has sprung a data leak, Facebook's creepy patents are unmasked, and an app to keep women safe on dates has surprising origins.

080: Country bans Facebook, eavesdropping Alexa, and PornHub VPN

May 31st, 2018  |  34 mins 25 secs

alexa, amazon, brave, facebook, papua new guinea, pornhub, privacy, vpn

Papua New Guinea is planning a month-long nationwide ban of Facebook, PornHub wants to keep your online activities more private, and Amazon Alexa forwards a married couple's private conversation to a random contact.