040: The show that cost Troy Hunt 14 dollars
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2017
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Are public figures lying about being hacked? What were online criminals doing with 711 million email addresses? And how could scammers profit from Hurricane Harvey?
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 Troy Hunt.
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Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and rude language.
Special Guest: Troy Hunt.
Sponsored By:
- Recorded Future: Recorded Future is the real-time threat intelligence company whose patented machine learning technology continuously analyzes technical, open, and dark web sources to give organizations unmatched insight into emerging threats.Sign up for free daily threat intelligence updates at https://recordedfuture.com/intel
Links:
- Trump appointee says for the 'past several years' he has been the victim of 'multiple cyber attacks' — Graham Cluley.
- Trump appointee: Comment calling Obama's mother a 'w@!re' result of 'Internet crimes' against me — CNN.
- Inside the Massive 711 Million Record Onliner Spambot Dump — Troy Hunt.
- Have I been pwned? — Check if your email has been compromised in a data breach
- Harvey Hoax: There are no sharks on Houston's flooded freeways — WCVB 5.
- Photo of planes at flooded Houston airport is a fake — Daily Mail.
- Charity Listing - BBB Wise Giving Alliance — Give.org.
- Wise giving in the wake of Hurricane Harvey — FTC.
- The Phoenix Comic
- Little Ripper Lifesaver Drones Spot Sharks Electronically — YouTube.
- ChirpChange
- Smashing Security on Facebook
- Smashing Security merchandise (t-shirts, mugs, stickers and stuff)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Graham. |
| 0:03.3 | Hi, Crow. |
| 0:04.1 | I have something to tell you. |
| 0:05.7 | Oh, goody, goody, good. |
| 0:06.5 | I was talking to a work contact named Melanie about a week or so ago. |
| 0:11.9 | And she was telling me how she likes Smashing Security and she listens to the podcast. |
| 0:16.6 | Yeah, isn't that great? |
| 0:17.9 | And she also said to me that one of the episodes she listened to was sponsored by Recorded Future. And Recorded Future produced a daily threat intelligence newsletter that she decided to sign up to. And she says the newsletter is absolutely great. She works in media, so she wants to know all the security things that are going on. And she says it's an amazing newsletter and she loves it. |
| 0:40.3 | So isn't that cool? |
| 0:41.2 | It is fantastic. |
| 0:42.1 | She loves our show and she loves our sponsor. |
| 0:45.6 | And if people want to sign up for this newsletter, they just have to go to |
| 0:48.6 | recordedfuture.com slash intel. |
| 0:51.0 | That's right. |
| 0:51.8 | And thanks to Recorded Future for supporting this show today. |
| 0:55.3 | On with the show. |
| 1:01.4 | Smashing Security, Episode 40, the show that cost Troy Hunt $14, with Carol Terrio and Graham Clule. |
| 1:10.2 | Hello, hello, and welcome to episode 40 of Smashing Security for the 31st of August 2017. I'm Graham Cluley and I'm joined as always by my good chum and co-host, Creole Terrio. Hello, Coral, how are you doing? You always say my name's so weird. It's like you haven't known me for 20 years. It is a very, very weird name. Continue. |
| 1:30.5 | Carol. I bet our guest could do it better. |
| 1:34.3 | Well, yes, we've got a special guest from far, far flung over the seas from. |
| 1:39.6 | It's a horrendous place where he lives, let me tell you. I've been following him on Twitter. |
| 1:43.4 | It's almost like he's an Instagram celebrity. |
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