Smashing Security

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.

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.

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.

097: Dash cam surveillance, robocall plague, and Zoho woe

September 27th, 2018  |  44 mins 14 secs

dash cam, domain, iot, phishing, privacy, robocall, vulnerability, zoho

Why was Zoho's website taken offline by its own domain registrar? How are dash cams making you less secure? And why are robocalls on the rise in the United States?

083: Fake email derails clarinetist's dream

June 21st, 2018  |  27 mins 32 secs

chromecast, clarinet, email, google, google home, password, privacy, this american life, vulnerability

Hell hath no fury like a jealous clarinetist's girlfriend! Your Google ChromeCast could be letting stalkers find out where you live! And why on earth is Graham recommending people write their passwords down in a book!?

076: Spying phones, hacked ski lifts, and World Password Day

May 3rd, 2018  |  44 mins

abba, android, blu, chess, hacking, mobile, password, ski lift, smartphone, sound effects, vulnerability

Cheap Android smartphones sold on Amazon have been sending customers' full text messages to a Chinese server, ski lifts are found to be the latest devices left open to abuse by hackers, and we remind you why password managers are a good idea on World Password Day. Oh, and our guest serenades us with a hit from the 1980s!

073: Rick Astley: Never gonna hack you up...

April 12th, 2018  |  39 mins 13 secs

bertram fiddle, hacking, harriet harman, kemi badenoch, passwords, politicians, sirens, t-mobile, vulnerability

Politician admits to hacking a rival's website, T-Mobile Austria ends up in a Twitter security storm, and siren systems are hit by a Rick Astley attack over the airwaves.