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

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

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!

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 journalist and broadcaster David McClelland.

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Ethical dilemmas, Girl Scouts, and porn-loving US officials

Ethical dilemmas, Girl Scouts, and porn-loving US officials

Who deserves to die in a driverless car crash? Who has been sniffing around the Girl Scouts' email account? And just how long would it take for a geologist to visit 9,000 adult web pages?All this and ...

31 Okt 201847min

Rule 34, Twitter scams, and Facebook fails

Rule 34, Twitter scams, and Facebook fails

A Facebook friend request leads to arrest, Twitter scams ride again via promoted ads, and adult websites expose their members. Oh, and Graham finds out what Rule 34 is.All this and much much more is d...

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IoT failures, and Donald Trump dating disaster

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Yes, Smashing Security has reached its 100th episode!Despite our celebratory mood, we don't forget to take a look at the security stories of the last week - including an alarming IoT failure and a dat...

17 Okt 201852min

099: Passwords - A Smashing Security splinter (replay)

099: Passwords - A Smashing Security splinter (replay)

With Carole in the wilds of Canada, and Graham knee-deep in a security conference in Glasgow, we drag an episode out from the archives of February 2017 - looking at the thorny subject of passwords.Joi...

10 Okt 201816min

098: A Facebook omnishambles

098: A Facebook omnishambles

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 phon...

3 Okt 201851min

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

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

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?All this and much much more is discus...

26 Sep 201844min

096: Bribing Amazon staff, and blinking deepfakes

096: Bribing Amazon staff, and blinking deepfakes

Amazon staff are being bribed to delete negative reviews and leak data, deepfakes are getting more dangerous, an update on John McAfee's bitcoin bet, and our guest gets a shock...All this and much muc...

19 Sep 201833min

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