Lockdown love scams, SolarWinds, and a data deletion bungle

Lockdown love scams, SolarWinds, and a data deletion bungle

Fingerprints and DNA records have been deleted from the UK's police database, the SolarWinds hack continues to wreak havoc and raise questions, and we have some advice for how to fall in love safely under lockdown...

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 Professor Alan Woodward.


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