011: WikiLeaks and the CIA
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2017
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Has the CIA been using a Weeping Angel to spy on you via your Smart TV? Have WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal been compromised? What is the secret of the SATAN ransomware? And can you avoid having your data searched as you pass through border control?
Computer security veterans Graham Cluley, Carole Theriault and special guest Paul Ducklin discuss.
SHOW NOTES:
- Nintendo Classic Mini
- WikiLeaks says it releases files on CIA cyber spying tools
- The CIA didn't break Signal or WhatsApp, despite what you've heard
- After NSA hacking exposé, CIA staffers asked where Equation Group went wrong
- Apple, Samsung Respond To Wikileaks Claims Of CIA Hacking Programs
- Twitter reactions to the WikiLeaks CIA data dump
- Is the CIA's Weeping Angel spying on TV viewers?
- Satan ransomware: old name, new business model
- 3 (free) things that journalists can do right now to protect their data and their sources at the border
- The US Gov Can Download the Entire Contents of Your Computer at Border Crossings
- What Are Your Rights if Border Agents Want to Search Your Phone?
- Stop Fabricating Travel Security Advice
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Graham. |
| 0:03.9 | Hey, Carol. Tell me, what is the biggest cybersecurity headache for cis admins? |
| 0:09.2 | Oh, that's easy. It's the users, isn't it? They're the pain. |
| 0:11.7 | Exactly. And imagine if you could have a kit that had everything you needed to roll out cybersecurity training to all your users. |
| 0:20.1 | That would be fantastic. But I imagine it would cost an awful lot of money. No, it's completely free. Our friends at Forces have created this amazing kit, and you can download it for free from their website, forces.co-U-K-slash-Tool-K. That's Forces, F-O-U-R-S-Y-S. You're telling me that if you just go to forciss.com.uk-U-K-S-Tool-K, you can download this fabulous |
| 0:42.5 | piece of training material and get your staff up to speed when it comes to computer security. |
| 0:47.0 | Bingo. |
| 0:48.0 | Sounds fabulous. |
| 0:49.3 | Well, thank you to Forces for that, and thank you to For this as well. Because I heard they're actually |
| 0:54.7 | sponsoring our show this week. Don't sound surprised. It's a good show. |
| 1:02.2 | Smashing Security, Episode 11. WikiLeaks and the CIA with Carol Terry O' and |
| 1:10.5 | Graham Clule. |
| 1:16.9 | Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of Smashing Security. |
| 1:21.8 | Smash Insecurity Episode 11 for Thursday, the 9th of March 2017. |
| 1:27.0 | And I'm joined as always by my buddy Coroll. |
| 1:29.5 | Hello, Carol. |
| 1:30.2 | Hello. |
| 1:31.4 | And we've got a special guest with us today, haven't we? |
| 1:35.2 | Very special. |
| 1:35.8 | Who's trying not to snigger in the background. |
| 1:39.3 | And if you can't tell already, it is a luminary from the computer security industry. |
| 1:45.1 | Mr. Paul Ducklin. Hello, Duck. Hello, chaps. Thanks for having me. |
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