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Smashing Security

041: Hacking Instagram, facial failures, and spying bosses

Smashing Security

Graham Cluley

Tech News, News, Technology

4.7579 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

It's easy to phone up a celebrity on Instagram following security breach, facial recognition at Notting Hill Carnival can't tell the girls from the boys, and companies are spying on their workers' activities.

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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0:00.0

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0:48.5

Smashing Security. com slash intel smashing security episode 41 hacking instagram facial failures and spying bosses with carol terry oh and graham clooly hello hello and welcome to episode 41 of smashing securityhing Security for the 7th of September 2017. My name's Graham Cluley and I'm joined as ever by my good chum and co-host Coral Terrio. Hello, Corral, how are you? I'm well, how are you? I'm gorgeous. Oh, we're going to sing the whole episode. That would have fun, wouldn't it? Maybe we should do a wrap one one day. I don't know.

1:13.2

I can get my husband to write mine.

1:14.3

Yeah, yeah.

1:15.0

Lucky you.

1:19.3

And we are delighted to welcome back a special guest, David Bisson.

1:20.1

Hi, David.

1:21.6

You've been on the show before, of course.

1:26.1

But for those of you don't know you or haven't heard of you, tell us about yourself.

1:29.3

Well, I'm an Infosec journalist. I write for a bunch of different places like Tripwire, carbonate,

1:33.3

and of course, you're a site gram.

1:36.3

So, yeah, constantly plugged into what's going on

1:39.3

and, yeah, just trying to raise awareness about security issues

1:42.3

and give some helpful advice along the way.

1:45.5

Well, you certainly do that and you're very prolific and keeping up to date with the latest

1:49.8

computer security news, which is what we try and do on this podcast, of course. And lots of

1:54.6

interesting things have been happening in the last week. One thing which we've touched upon a few

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