Smashing Security

152: Cats, hoodies, and rent

October 31st, 2019  |  54 mins 22 secs

art, cats, dogs, edward snowden, hoodies, iot, pet feeders, rent, vulnerability

What's the problem with IoT-enabled pet feeders? Can hacking ever be illustrated without a hoodie? And just how are landlords using smart home technology to snoop upon their residents?

141: Black Hat and Bridezillas

August 15th, 2019  |  51 mins 30 secs

black hat, cable, camera, crown sterling, dslr, encryption, iphone, lightning, malware, ransomware, time ai, vulnerability

Say cheese to ransomware on your camera! A sponsored speech at Black Hat causes uproar, and should you trust that Lightning cable you're about to plug into your MacBook?

139: Capital One hacked, iMessage flaws, and anonymity my ass!

August 1st, 2019  |  47 mins 59 secs

amazon, capital one, data anonymization, data breach, gdpr, imessage, ios, iphone, legend of zelda, steve jobs, vulnerability, walter isaacson

Capital One gets hacked, critical vulnerabilities are found in iMessage, and data anonymization may not be as good as we hope. But listen up, we also discuss the Legend of Zelda, a biography of tech giants, offer advice for escaping an angry moose, and are introduced to... Penelope?

137: Porn trolling lawyers, Insta hacking, and Ctrl-Alt-LED

July 18th, 2019  |  44 mins 8 secs

hacking, instagram, keyboard, lawyers, porn, vulnerability

Erection your honour! Lawyers find themselves behind bars after they make porn movies in an attempt to scam internet users, boffins in Israel detail a way to steal data from an air-gapped computer, and Instagram coughs up $30,000 after a researcher finds a simple way to hack into anybody's account.

136: Oops, we created Iran's hacking exploit

July 11th, 2019  |  49 mins 59 secs

business email compromise, deepfake, deepnude, iran, malware, outlook, privacy, trevor noah, vulnerability, webcam, zoom

Mac users of the Zoom video conferencing app are warned their webcams could be hijacked, security firms warn of how scammers are deepfaking audio to steal from businesses, and our guest owns up to the role he played in an Iranian cyberattack against US organisations.

131: Zap yourself from the net, and patch now against BlueKeep

June 6th, 2019  |  34 mins 14 secs

bluekeep, chernobyl, malware, microsoft windows, nellie bly, privacy, vulnerability, wannacry

Microsoft issues warning to unpatched Windows users about worm risk, and how do you delete all traces of yourself off the internet after your murder your podcast co-host?

118: The 's' in IoT stands for security

March 7th, 2019  |  42 mins 49 secs

absher, didgeridoo, fleabag, iot, jibo, saudi arabi, skiing, snoring, vulnerability

Twerking robot assistants, an app from Saudi Arabia that lets men track women, and a gnarly skiing security snarl-up!

Oh, and find out how a didgeridoo could change your life and that of your loved ones.

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.

111: When rivals hack, and "extreme" baby monitors

January 17th, 2019  |  40 mins 56 secs

baby monitor, botnet, ddos, government, iot, liberia, mirai, ssl, tls, toto, vulnerability

Why a business spat resulted in Liberia falling off the internet, how the US Government shutdown is impacting website security, and the perplexing world of extreme IoT devices.