036: Flash? Clunk flush... and hacking security researchers
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2017
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
A security threat researcher is badly hacked in a revenge attack. Some people want to save Adobe Flash, but is that wise? And a poorly-secured electronic billboard starts displaying offensive images...
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 Maria Varmazis.
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Special Guest: Maria Varmazis.
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Links:
- Hackers Leak Data From Mandiant Security Researcher in Operation #LeakTheAnalyst — Bleeping Computer.
- Hackers kick off #leaktheanalyst campaign by dumping data of $1bn security firm — The Next Web
- LinkedIn profile of a Mandiant employee — Warning - contains image of hairy bottom. This is really here just for Maria.
- How to choose a strong password - simple tips for better security — YouTube video from 2009, featuring Graham (and filmed by Carole). So, who remembered correctly what we actually said in the video?
- Smashing Security podcast: Protecting webmail — A Smashing Security splinter.
- Flash & The Future of Interactive Content — Adobe.
- Petition to open source Flash and Shockwave — Github.
- Adobe Flash Fans Want a Chance to Fix Its One Million Bugs Under an Open Source License — Gizmodo.
- Hackers hijack central Cardiff billboard to display swastikas and more... — Graham Cluley.
- Hackers plant obscene image on electronic billboard in Atlanta — Graham Cluley.
- Motorists warned of Dalek invasion by hacked road sign — Naked Security.
- How to Lock Down TeamViewer for More Secure Remote Access — How-To Geek.
- Long Distance — Reply All podcast by Gimlet Media.
- Tickled movie — Wikipedia.
- Tickled documentary to air on HBO with bonus follow-up special — The A.V. Club.
- Clock face with actual human face uses eyes to tell time — Mashable.
- Picture of Carole's clock (which Graham hates) — Twitter.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Graham here. Just before we begin the show, just wanted to say that we had a bit of a |
| 0:05.9 | problem recording this one. In the first few minutes of the podcast, Maria, who's our special guest, |
| 0:11.8 | her audio is slightly defective. Please bear with it. We had some technical problems. We even had a |
| 0:17.4 | power cut during the course of the recording. Her bad audio only lasts |
| 0:22.6 | maybe three or four minutes and after that everything should be good and we still think it's |
| 0:26.7 | worth putting out. So bear with it and enjoy the show. |
| 0:32.1 | Smashing Security is supported by Recorded Future, the real-time threat intelligence company whose patented machine learning technology continuously analyzes technical, open, and dark web sources to give organization unmatched insight into emerging threats. |
| 0:48.3 | Sign up for the free daily threat intelligence update at recordedfuture.com slash intel. That's recordedfuture.com |
| 0:56.4 | slash intel. |
| 1:02.0 | Smashing Security, episode 36, Flash clunk flush, and hacking security researchers with Carol |
| 1:10.0 | Terry O and Graham Cluley. |
| 1:11.7 | Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of Smash Incurity number 36. |
| 1:16.7 | Indeed, my name's Graham Cluley, and I'm joined by my good buddy and co-host Coral Terrier. |
| 1:20.8 | Hello, Carol. How are you? |
| 1:22.4 | I'm good. I just wish I was 36 again, actually. |
| 1:25.3 | That was some time ago, wasn't it? |
| 1:45.6 | Back in the 90s. It's going to be one of those. It's going to be one of those. It's going to be one of those. And as you've just heard, we are joined by a special guest today. And it is Maria Vermasys, information security and technology blogger. Hello, Maria. Welcome to the show. Hi, great. Thank you. Thank you so much. |
| 1:52.0 | Maria, I am so glad we never have enough women on this show and I am thrilled to bits that you're here. |
| 1:57.3 | Oh, well. Thank you for joining because I know you have recently had a baby, so you're not getting a lot of sleep these days, are you? I'm about as sleep deprived as most people in our industry. |
| 2:08.3 | When you say recently, do you mean this morning? No, no, heavens no. But it feels like it. |
| 2:12.5 | No, no, three months ago. So I just came off maternity leave about a week ago. So I'm dusting off everything going, what the thing happened? I just want to cry happen. |
| 2:17.6 | And the day I was in the hospital is amazing. So the nurses were going, I think something happened and I'm going to have to change it on my passwords again. They're wheeling in my baby in the bathroom. And I'm like, oh, my God, I can't get away from this anywhere. Well, thank heavens. You won't have it in the British NHS |
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