Smashing Security

159: Rap, robbery, and IoT holiday hell

December 19th, 2019  |  55 mins 3 secs

banking, car, christmas, die hard, facebook, fraud, instagram, iot, odometer, rap

A rapping bank worker is accused of stealing from the vault, the devices that can hide your car's true mileage, and why it may be a case of "No No No" rather than "Ho Ho Ho" when it comes to IoT toys this Christmas.

And as Carole sups the mulled wine, Graham has problems with his internet connection...

150: Liverpool WAGs, Facebook politics, and a selfie stalker

October 17th, 2019  |  51 mins 22 secs

elizabeth warren, facebook, football, instagram, liverpool, privacy, selfie, stalker

Footballers' wives go to war over Instagram leaks, it turns out fake news is fine on Facebook (just so long as it's in a political ad), and things take a horrific turn in Japan, as a stalker uses a scary technique to find out where his pop idol lives.

142: Mercedes secret sensors, smart cities, and ransomware runs riot

August 22nd, 2019  |  49 mins 31 secs

car, facebook, malware, mercedes, privacy, ransomware, smart cities, tracking

Darknet Diaries host Jack Rhysider joins us to discuss how cities in Texas are being hit by a wave of ransomware, how Mercedes Benz has installed a tracker in your car (but not for the reason you think), the security threats impacting smart cities, and a new feature coming to your Facebook app.

135: Zombie grannies and unintended leaks

July 4th, 2019  |  56 mins 26 secs

android, apollo 11, chillow, dark, facebook, fediverse, iot, malware, pillow, smart lock, twitter

We take a bloodied baseball bat to Android malware, and debate the merits of a social media strike, as one of the team bites the bullet and buys a smart lock for the office.

130: Doctored videos, Bcc blunders, and a diva

May 30th, 2019  |  48 mins 10 secs

data breach, deepfakes, email, facebook, fake news, gdpr, google, malware, privacy, samantha-antoinette smith, twitter, video

You won't believe who had to report themselves to the data protection agency for a breach, or who has been sharing doctored videos of political rivals, or how much money you can make selling a laptop infected with malware... and how Carole gets her diva on.

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.