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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038: Gents! Stop airdropping your pics!

038: Gents! Stop airdropping your pics!

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037: Boobs, dragons and data breaches

037: Boobs, dragons and data breaches

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036: Flash? Clunk flush... and hacking security researchers

036: Flash? Clunk flush... and hacking security researchers

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035: Up the Roomba with mandatory Chinese spyware

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The UK government wants you to give your credit card details to porn sites, Ashley Madison offers compensation to the people whose lives it ruined, and an adult website wants you to pass its unorthodo...

20 Jul 201748min

033: 1Password, net neutrality, and spatchcock chicken

033: 1Password, net neutrality, and spatchcock chicken

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032: The iPhone 8, a data breach at the AA, and a mystery no show

032: The iPhone 8, a data breach at the AA, and a mystery no show

The iPhone 8 is on its way and may use 3D facial recognition rather than a fingerprint sensor to lock out intruders, and the UK's Automobile Association claims it hasn't leaked any credit card data, s...

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031: Petya (don't know the name of this ransomware)

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29 Jun 201744min

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