015: Bad vibrations
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2017
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Don't let an internet-enabled sex toy make your most private moments oh-so-public. Samsung's wannabe-Android-killer is found lacking. And did you hear about the firm that is micro-chipping its employees?
All this and more is discussed by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by special guest John Hawes.
Show notes:
- Vulnerable Wi-Fi dildo camera endoscope. Yes really - Pen Test Partners
- Samsung's Android Replacement Is a Hacker's Dream - Motherboard
- Companies start implanting microchips into workers' bodies - LA Times
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Graham. |
| 0:03.1 | Hi, Crow. |
| 0:03.9 | Have you ever been to the dark web? Crow, what kind of question is that? If I've ever been to the dark web, it's because I wanted to keep things on the QT, on the quiet, right? I certainly wouldn't want to share that kind of information with you, would I? Let's be honest. Sheesh. Well, how does someone like me find out about the dark web then? Oh, well, if you want to know what's going on out there, you need a firm like Recorded Future. |
| 0:26.1 | They are scouring both the regular web and the dark web using sophisticated technology, |
| 0:32.6 | finding out all about emerging threats. |
| 0:35.6 | And you can sign up to their daily newsletter and get the latest |
| 0:39.3 | insights at recordedfuture.com slash intel. Sounds 15. Bad Vibrations with Carol Terry O' and Graham Cluley. |
| 1:00.5 | Hello, hello and welcome to another episode of Smetion Security, episode 15 for the 6th of April |
| 1:06.2 | 2017. And as always, I'm joined by my buddy Coroll. Hello, Corral. Hello, Graham. And we're also |
| 1:13.8 | joined this week by a special guest, John Hawes. Hello, John. Hello. Now, John, for those who don't |
| 1:20.4 | know, you used to be very high up in Virus Bulletin, didn't you? And now I believe you represent |
| 1:25.5 | the Anti-Moware Testing Standards |
| 1:28.3 | Organisation, AMTSO. That's right. That's right. It's quite a mouthful anti-mailware testing |
| 1:33.3 | standards organisation. What on earth does AMTSO do? Well, we basically bring together the people who |
| 1:40.4 | test anti-malware products and the people who make anti-mailware products and other people |
| 1:44.5 | that are interested in that kind of thing and we talk about testing and we try to come up with |
| 1:48.7 | better, more reliable, more accurate ways of testing things and we're currently in the process of |
| 1:55.5 | putting together the first set of official standards for anti-malware testing. |
| 1:59.8 | You mean there's no standards yet in antivirus and anti-malware? |
| 2:04.2 | As of 2016, there are no standards. |
| 2:06.9 | Wow. |
| 2:08.1 | It's 2017, John. |
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