031: Petya (don't know the name of this ransomware)
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2017
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Another major ransomware outbreak rattles the world - but no-one can decide what it's called, the danger posed to driverless cars by kangaroos, and do you really want an Amazon Echo Show?
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 David Bisson.
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Links:
- Martijn Grooten on Twitter: "Seriously injured man lies next to tree..." — Martijn seems to be suggesting the infosecurity industry might have the wrong priorities.
- Global ransomware outbreak hits organisations hard
- Cybereason discovers NotPetya kill switch — You might want to create a file called "perfc" in your Windows folder.
- Info on the PetrWrap/Petya ransomware: Email account in question already blocked since midday — Don't pay the ransom folks...
- Driverless cars: Kangaroos throwing off animal detection software — Cripes!
- How Flying Cars Will Boost Intel, Uber and Airbus
- Amazon’s New Echo Show Is Very Cool And A Little Creepy
- [PSA] Intercom (drop-in) does require calling to be enabled and needs access to your contact list
- Malicious Life podcast — Interviewing Graham Cluley, Vesselin Bontchev, and others about the early days of malware.
- 50th anniversary of the ATM opens debate about mobile payments
- Why Was The World's First Cash Machine In Enfield?
- "On The Buses" - YouTube — Starring Reg Varney, famous for being one of the first people in the world to use an ATM.
- The Bright Sessions podcast
Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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| 0:46.9 | Smashing Security, Episode 31, Petcher don't know the name of this ransomware, with Carol Terrio and Graham Cluley. |
| 1:12.7 | Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of Smashing Security, episode number 31 for the 29th of June 2017. My name's Graham Cluelly. And I'm joined as always by my co-host and good buddy Coral. Terrio. Hello, Corral. How are you? Hello, I'm good. Hello from the great big plains of Canada. Oh, yeah. You're out there at the moment, aren't you? Visiting the Terrio family Massif. How's that going? Well, it's going to be big. It's a big Canada Day weekend, so there's 40 of my family are coming over for a three-day jaunt. |
| 1:18.6 | 40? Yeah. That is quite a party. Yeah, there's a lot of prep work, but I've, of course, |
| 1:24.3 | made time for the podcast. You've got your priorities right. |
| 1:47.2 | And the other person who's got his priorities right is our special guest today. He's prolific Info Security journalist and blogger David Bisson. Hello, David. Welcome to the show. Hey, how's it going? Thanks for having me. Yay. Delighted to have you on board. Good. And I'm sure you've heard the podcast before. but if you haven't, this is how it works, everybody. |
| 1:46.7 | What we do is we each choose a topic from the news, last week's news, a computer |
| 1:52.3 | security and privacy, and we have a little bit of a chat about it. And as tradition dictates, |
| 1:58.0 | I get to go first. |
| 2:01.4 | He's the guy who doesn't open doors for people either, so it's no problem. |
| 2:05.1 | What do you like? |
| 2:06.3 | What? |
| 2:07.4 | It's outrageous. |
| 2:09.1 | I don't think you've ever decided. |
| 2:11.2 | Even when I had an operation, I don't think you said, oh, let me carry that for you. |
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