Smashing Security

169: Burglaries, breaches, and bidets

March 12th, 2020  |  51 mins 5 secs

burglary, coronavirus, data breach, google, location data, microsoft, ultimate chicken horse, virgin media

How one guy's exercise routine made him a burglary suspect, how multi-factor authentication can cause headaches as well as stop hacks, and how Virgin Media got itself in a pickle over its sloppy data security.

166: What the Dickens! Ad ban thank you scam

February 20th, 2020  |  42 mins 1 sec

charles dickens, david copperfield, dick pics, google, google ads, twitter

How to stop dick pics on Twitter, and a new way bad guys are extorting money from websites earning cash from Google ads.

154: A buttock of biometrics

November 14th, 2019  |  50 mins 2 secs

apple, credit card, ddos, fitness, google, health data, labour, monopoly

The UK's Labour Party kicks off its election campaign with claims that it has suffered a sophisticated cyber-attack, Apple's credit card is accused of being sexist, and what is Google up to with Project Nightingale?

151: Frankly, sometimes paying the ransom is a good idea

October 24th, 2019  |  55 mins 49 secs

alexa, amazon, backups, baltimore, digital assistants, google, google home, passwords, phishing, privacy, ransomware, smart speakers

Remember how the City of Baltimore was badly hit by ransomware earlier this year? Turns out that wasn't the end of their problems. Also, Carole takes a look at how smart speakers can be hacked to trick you into giving criminals your passwords or even credit card details. And we discuss the findings of the LastPass global password security report.

145: Apple and Google willy wave while home assistants spy - DoH!

September 12th, 2019  |  44 mins 21 secs

alexa, android, apple, dns, doh, google, home assistant, https, ios, malware, nintendo wii, siri

Apple is furious with Google over iPhone hacking attacks against Uyghur Muslims in China, DNS-over-HTTPS is good for privacy but makes ISPs angry, and concern over digital assistants listening to our private moments continues to rise.

144: Google helps the FBI, Twitter Jack’s hijack, and car data woes

September 5th, 2019  |  51 mins 34 secs

android, car, doctor who, fbi, google, jack dorsey, location services, privacy, terrance dicks, twitter

Should Google really be helping the FBI with a bank robbery? What's the story behind the Twitter CEO claiming there's a bomb in their offices? And how much does your car really know about you?

And we mourn the loss of Doctor Who legend Terrance Dicks...

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.

129: Too Long; Didn't Listen

May 23rd, 2019  |  51 mins 34 secs

2fa, china, google, hackers, phishing, scam, social media

Don't hire a hacker, they might scam you! What works and what doesn't when it comes to protecting your email account? And China's controversial social credit system comes under the microscope.

115: Love, Nests, and is 2FA destroying the world?

February 14th, 2019  |  38 mins 52 secs

2fa, apple, catfishing, google, iphone, nest

Is two factor authentication such a pain in the rear end that it's costing the economy millions? Do you feel safe having a Google Nest in your home? And don't get caught by a catfisher this Valentine's Day.

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?