024: Reality Winner, Gordon Ramsay and a leaky bucket
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2017
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Evidence of Russia hacking the US election leaks from the NSA and Reality is not a winner, confidential data is accidentally exposed in the cloud by a defence contractor, and Gordon Ramsay has a few choice words for his hacking father-in-law.
All this and more 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 Ian Whalley.
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Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and rude language.
Special Guest: Ian Whalley.
Sponsored By:
- iovation: iovation is offering Smashing Security listeners a free demonstration of its mobile multifactor solution product, LaunchKey, which can be built into your mobile apps, websites and online services to provide a simple, streamlined remote login function.
Links:
- The classic era Smashing Security team... reunited at Infosec — Graham and Carole bumped into someone called Vanja Svajcer at the Infosec show in London, and couldn't resist getting a selfie.
- Top-Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election — The Intercept report which kicked everything off.
- Affidavit in support of application for Reality Winner's arrest warrant — Read the PDF for yourself.
- How The Intercept might have helped unmasked Reality Winner to the NSA — David Bisson writes on grahamcluley.com.
- How The Intercept Outed Reality Winner — Robert Graham's blog post about the really rather hard-to-see little yellow dots.
- Defense contractor stored intelligence data in Amazon cloud unprotected — Booz Allen Hamilton engineer posted geospatial intelligence to Amazon S3 bucket.
- Gordon Ramsay's father-in-law jailed over hacking plot — BBC News Online.
- Gordon Ramsay the hypocrite: How TV chef defended sharks... but previously caught two rare ones for fun — The controversial Daily Mail article that included pictures stolen from Gordon Ramsay's email account.
- Malcolm Tucker's best insults (Explicit) — YouTube clips from BBC's "The Thick of It". Not for young ears or the easily offended...
- Smashing Security: 014: Protecting webmail - a Smashing Security splinter — In this podcast we run through our tips on how to better secure your web-based email accounts. Chances are that you're not doing all of these!
- Smashing Security: Passwords - a Smashing Security splinter — Password best practices explained in our podcast.
- Boxcryptor - Encryption software to secure cloud files — Encrypt your files before you shove them in the cloud...
- How to use Google Maps offline — Ian's tip on how to use your smartphone to navigate, even when you don't have a data connection.
- Trump in translation: president's mangled language stumps interpreters — Carole's pick of the week from The Guardian.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you to Iovation for sponsoring this episode of Smashing Security. |
| 0:06.8 | Iovation is a company that creates authentication and fraud prevention solutions. |
| 0:11.1 | It helps to secure businesses while making it simple for users to log into their favorite apps and services. |
| 0:16.8 | Iovation is offering Smashing Security listeners a free demo of its newest product launchkey. |
| 0:23.0 | Visit demos.launchkey.com for your free demo. |
| 0:27.0 | And thanks to Iovation for supporting the show. |
| 0:34.1 | Smashing Security, episode 24, reality winner, Gordon Ramsey and a Leaky Bucket with Carol Terrio and Graham Cluley. |
| 0:44.2 | Hello, hello, and welcome to episode 24, Smashing Security for the 8th of June 2017. |
| 0:50.1 | My name's Graham Clule, and I'm joined as ever by my buddy and co-host Corral Terrio. Hello, Coral. How are you? |
| 0:57.0 | Hi. Why did you say my name so weirdly? |
| 0:59.7 | Well, it is a weird name. I mean, it's not just weirdly spelled. It is pronounced pretty strangely, isn't it? I think most people, if they knew how you spell T'alliur, would be somewhat surprised. |
| 1:13.1 | Yeah, well, I think with the way you've just pronounced it, they would, yeah. |
| 1:17.1 | That was a splendid pronunciation. |
| 1:20.3 | It was almost as good as the Lithuanian clinic. |
| 1:23.3 | Who? |
| 1:24.9 | Are you being like Mr. Rogers? |
| 1:26.5 | Oh, who's come to the door? Who's come to the door? Let's go see. Who's this? Just poked their head through the window is we've got a special guest. It's Ian Wally who works for Google. Hello, Ian. How are you? Hello, I'm very good. How are you? I'm absolutely gorgeous. Now tell me, Google. Who are they? |
| 1:44.8 | What do they do? |
| 1:46.0 | Oh, I know. |
| 1:47.4 | They're the company who write that Smarty Pants software that can play the Chinese game of Go. |
| 1:51.8 | Hence, they're really called Go Ogle. |
| 1:56.6 | Oh, God. |
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