013: Assault with a deadly tweet
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2017
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Graham is embarrassed by a Twitter security snafu. How an animated GIF could prove deadly. Social engineering threats against your workforce. And will you be able to do any work on your laptop next time you catch an airplane?
All this and more is discussed by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by special guest Alex Eckelberry.
SHOW NOTES:
- Sorry for the Nazi spam from my Twitter account - Graham Cluley
- Newsweek reporter Kurt Eichenwald on Fox News, 15 December 2016 - YouTube
- Maryland man arrested for cyberstalking - US Dept of Justice
- US man held for sending flashing tweet to epileptic writer - BBC News
- Epilepsy site hacked with seizure images - CBS News
- How to really pronounce GIF - howtoreallypronouncegif.com
- Gif's inventor says ignore dictionaries and say 'Jif' - BBC News
- How to disable animated GIFs in different web browsers - The Windows Club
- How to disable autoplaying videos on Twitter - Twitter
- This is the email that hacked Hillary Clinton’s campaign chief - Bitdefender Hot for Security
- Fry all the things! USB Kill zaps tons of computing devices - Graham Cluley
- UK flight ban on electronic devices announced - BBC News
- Electronics banned from cabins on some Middle Eastern and African flights to U.S. - CNN
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Special Guest: Alex Eckelberry.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Carol, how's things? Hi, Graham. You're right? Yeah, I know. I'm just tired. I had a nightmare last night. |
| 0:10.5 | Nightmare. Oh, my goodness. No, no, don't tell me. I bet it was about the dark web, wasn't it? You don't have to worry about that. |
| 0:18.0 | I know these guys. They are the real-time threat intel experts. |
| 0:22.1 | They've got machine learning technology. |
| 0:23.6 | They're analysing the open and the dark web, |
| 0:25.4 | offering great insight into emerging threats. |
| 0:28.2 | Sign up to Recorded Futures newsletter, |
| 0:31.2 | and you will get those latest insights in your inbox every morning. |
| 0:35.1 | Scaring away the nightmares. |
| 0:36.4 | Go to RecordedFuture.com slash intel. |
| 0:40.3 | Is there anything about vampire cats in that? |
| 0:44.0 | You'll have to sign up to see. |
| 0:45.6 | If that's the kind of nightmares you're having, |
| 0:47.1 | recordedfuture.com slash intel. |
| 0:49.6 | Probably not so much on the vampire cats, though. |
| 0:56.6 | Smashing Security. Episode 13, assaulted with a deadly tweet with Carol Terry O' and Graham Cluley. |
| 1:06.5 | Hello, hello everybody, and welcome to Smashing Security episode 13, where we'll be discussing |
| 1:11.8 | all the interesting things which have been happening in the world of computer security in the last |
| 1:15.6 | seven days. And as ever, I am joined by my good buddy, Carol. Hello, Carol. Hello, Graham. |
| 1:21.9 | And we're also joined this week by a special guest. Yes, we have dragged in a veteran of the computer security industry |
| 1:29.1 | who's held senior positions at a long list of technology companies for many, many decades, |
| 1:34.4 | including the likes of malware bites, which I'm sure many listeners have heard of. It is Mr. Alex |
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