014: Protecting webmail - a Smashing Security splinter
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2017
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
What can you do to better protect your online email accounts?
In this special "splinter" episode (or should it be a "shard"?) regular hosts Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault discuss with Paul Ducklin tips on how to defend your Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail/Outlook/etc account.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Did you press record? |
| 0:05.0 | Yes, I'm pressing record this time. |
| 0:06.9 | Okay, good. |
| 0:07.8 | Who's recorded feature? |
| 0:09.5 | Ah, recorded future. |
| 0:10.7 | They're marvellous. |
| 0:11.4 | They are very generously supporting the podcast this week. |
| 0:14.9 | Oh, that's nice. |
| 0:16.0 | Isn't it great? |
| 0:16.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:17.3 | They are the real-time threat intel firm, and they use machine learning technology to |
| 0:23.2 | analyze the open and the dark web to give people, yeah, I know, give people greater insight |
| 0:29.2 | into emerging threats, what's really going on out there. |
| 0:32.5 | And do they share that information with people like us? |
| 0:35.6 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:36.3 | So you can either sign up to be one of their customers, obviously, or you can get their free Cyber Daily newsletter and get the latest insights in your inbox at no charge whatsoever. All you have to do is go to recordedfuture.com slash intel. Recordedfuture.com slash intel? That's right. And thanks to Recorded Future for their support of the show. |
| 0:56.2 | I fed you every line there, Graham. |
| 1:03.3 | Smashing Security, Splinter episode, protecting webmail with Carol Terrio and Graham Cluley. |
| 1:12.4 | Hello, and welcome to this special splinter episode of Smashing Security. |
| 1:16.7 | I'm joined today by Corral Terrio. Hello, Carol. |
| 1:19.9 | Hello, how are you? |
| 1:21.9 | I'm very well, thank you. And we have a special guest who's returned to the show, Paul Ducklin from Sophos. Hello, Duck. |
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