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Smashing Security

023: Covfefe

Smashing Security

Graham Cluley

Technology, News, Tech News

4.7579 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Hackers are blackmailing cosmetic surgery patients, and threatening to release their naked photos. A British Airways IT snafu causes travel chaos for thousands. And Germany is threatening to throw hefty fines at Facebook if it can't police its content properly.

All this and "Covfefe" is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by special guest John Hawes.

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0:00.0

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0:21.9

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0:28.4

Iovation for supporting the show.

0:34.0

Smashing Security, Episode 23, Cuffifi with Carol Terrio and Graham Cluley.

0:44.8

Hello, hello, and welcome to episode 23 of Smashing Security, the 1st of June 2017.

0:51.6

And as always, I'm joined by my co-host and good buddy Corral Terrio hello Carole how are you

0:57.2

Confifi Graham confifi cofee cofee what is this confifi fee fee but keep seeing it today what does it

1:05.8

mean I think it's cofifi not confifi isn't it noie, isn't it? No, cov fee fee, yeah.

1:10.9

Oh, Cov F-F-E-F-E. Must be the Canadian accent. John, you haven't heard of cofifi? Well, no, I keep seeing it in like website sidebars pointing me to exciting stories about it, but I never actually click on any of them because... It's a pretty big. Because there's this man who's made a typo. At least we assume it's a typo. And the whole world has gone mad. He made a typo on Twitter. I'll give you, let's give, we'll let John narrow it down, okay? He's on Twitter. Yes. He's orange. I think I've guessed already. Okay.

1:46.4

So he tweeted, despite the constant negative press, co-fifi, C-O-V-F-E-F-E, that's it.

1:54.3

And everyone's been kind of going crazy trying to guess what it is. And then he went to bed.

1:59.2

That's the thing. So America was like on tenterhooks. What could this mean? What could this mean? So they all went crazy. Then Europe woke up before Donald woke up thinking, what is this? Yeah. What's he talking about? Yeah. And we're making fun. And there's been memes. And then it gets removed, John, with no mention. He didn't explain it? No. Oh, no, he has tweeted something since. Oh, yeah? Oh, did he? Yes, he has. He's deleted the tweet, but he said, I'll have to do the voice. Oh, can figure out. No, hang on. That sounds like. That's one of Marge Simpson sisters. It sounds like one of Marge Simpson sisters.

2:36.6

I don't know.

2:37.4

How does Donald Trump sound like?

2:42.0

It's a bit difficult now, isn't it?

2:43.6

Yeah, okay, okay, good point.

2:44.8

I'm doing... imagine me, I'm doing the hand signals.

2:47.1

I'm doing that weird thing with hands.

2:48.6

You've got their hands for it.

2:49.8

He says...

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