What? You can get paid to leave Facebook?
Smashing Security9 Tammi 2019

What? You can get paid to leave Facebook?

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.

All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Maria Varmazis.


Follow the show on Twitter at @SmashinSecurity, or visit our website for more episodes.


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Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and rude language.


Theme tune: "Vinyl Memories" by Mikael Manvelyan.


Assorted sound effects: AudioBlocks.

Special Guest: Maria Varmazis.

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