035: Up the Roomba with mandatory Chinese spyware
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2017
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
China is forcing people to install smartphone spyware, young cyberoffenders are offered rehab, and robot vacuum cleaners want to sell maps of the inside of your house to tech firms.
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 Dan Ring.
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Links:
- Xinjiang Users Arrested over State Spyware Usage — Infosecurity Magazine
- China crams spyware on phones in Muslim-majority province — The Register.
- Rehab camp aims to put young cyber-crooks on right track — BBC News.
- Roomba vacuum maker iRobot betting big on the 'smart' home — Reuters.
- iRobot Wants to Sell Mapping Data Collected by Roomba Vacuums to a Tech Company Like Apple — Mac Rumors.
- Griffin BreakSafe Magnetic USB C Charging Cable — To make your upgraded MacBook Pro a little less of a downgrade.
- USB-C MagSafe - Will it work!?!? — iJustine's video on YouTube.
- Chipotle Blames Norovirus Outbreak on a Sick Employee — Pick of the week?
- Jim'll Paint It — See what Microsoft Paint can do in the hands of a genius.
- MS Paint is here to stay — Microsoft.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode of Smashing Security is brought to you by Rapid 7. |
| 0:06.3 | Identifying, prioritizing, and managing vulnerabilities all the way through to remediation is not only possible. |
| 0:12.2 | It can be simple. |
| 0:13.5 | Right now. |
| 0:14.5 | Build a vulnerability management program that works for you with Insight VM by Rapid 7. |
| 0:19.5 | Get started with your free 30-day trial at rapid7.com. |
| 0:27.2 | Smashing Security, episode 35, up the rumba with Mandateuri Chinese spyware, with Carol Terrio and Graham Cluelly. |
| 0:39.0 | Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of Smashing Security. |
| 0:43.0 | Episode 35, my name is Graham Cluelly, and I'm joined as always by my good buddy and co-host, |
| 0:49.3 | Corral Terrio. Hello, Carole. How are you? Why are you laughing? |
| 0:52.1 | Because you're tripping over your words. I forgot my name. I always do that. There's so much. Sorry. I don't know. I don't know. |
| 0:57.9 | Who does this show with me? Who does it? Oh, it's her. Hello, Carol. How are you? Hi, Graham. |
| 1:02.8 | you're right great you i'm all right now i might sound a little bit odd today because i am on assignment at a top secret location. I can't tell you exactly where in the |
| 1:08.7 | world I am, but I'll give you a clue. I did see the Eiffel Tower earlier, and I might have seen |
| 1:13.6 | one of the pyramids of Luxor at the same time. I'm not saying anything. Our smart security audience |
| 1:20.4 | maybe can work it out, but I'm not going to tell anyone. And we're also joined by a very special guest, aren't we, Carol? We are. Say hello, Mr. Dan Ring. Hi, you guys. Oh, now Dan Ring is Mr. PR Man extraordinaire, and I've worked with him for a number of years and he's really wanted to be on the show |
| 1:27.1 | let's be honest he's made a bit of a pest of himself wanted to come to the show haven't you |
| 1:45.1 | well I love you guys more than anything oh if you're your opportunity to speak to you out of a microphone |
| 1:49.6 | in a computer I think it's blissful. |
| 1:58.0 | Yeah, as normal, we don't actually want to be in the same room as each other, but hearing each other's dulcet tones is quite pleasant, isn't it, in comparison to them? |
| 2:06.1 | I concur. |
| 2:09.7 | The visual is appalling, but the voice is fantastic. |
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