042: Equifax, BlueBorne, and the iPhone X
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2017
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Equifax's shambolic response to its huge data breach, a scary-sounding Bluetooth exploit, and Apple's iPhone X comes with Face ID.
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 Javvad Malik of AlienVault.
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Links:
- We tested Equifax's data breach checker — and it's basically useless | ZDNet
- Equifax hack: 44 million Britons' personal details feared stolen in major US data breach
- "The front page of Equifax's UK website. They don't seem to have room to mention the data breach affecting up to 44 million Brits." - Twitter
- Chatbot lets you sue Equifax for up to $25,000 without a lawyer - The Verge
- How to protect yourself in the wake of the Equifax data breach
- Ayuda! (Help!) Equifax Has My Data! — Krebs on Security
- BlueBorne Information from the Research Team - Armis Labs
- The five biggest questions about Apple’s new facial recognition system - The Verge
- Can the government force you to unlock your own phone? | The Guardian
- UK police have a new tactic to circumvent strong iPhone encryption: steal the unlocked phone out of the criminal’s hand | 9to5Mac
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | find out if they've been breached. |
| 0:01.4 | And they're saying, enter your surname and the last, I think, six digits of your social security number. |
| 0:07.5 | Do you want to get that, Kroll? |
| 0:08.8 | It's not mine. |
| 0:09.8 | Oh. |
| 0:11.2 | It's not mine either. |
| 0:12.8 | It's not mine. |
| 0:13.8 | Is it? |
| 0:15.6 | It is. |
| 0:17.0 | It is mine. |
| 0:19.4 | Who the hell's ringing me? |
| 0:23.4 | Today's episode of Smashing Security is brought you in part by Rapid 7. |
| 0:27.7 | Identifying, prioritising and managing vulnerabilities all the way through to remediation is not only possible. |
| 0:33.8 | It can be simple right now. |
| 0:36.3 | Build a vulnerability management program that works for you with Insight VM by Rapid 7. |
| 0:41.5 | Get started with your free 30-day trial right now. |
| 0:46.1 | Go to www rapid7.com. |
| 0:49.7 | And thanks to Rapid 7 for supporting the show. |
| 0:56.6 | Smashing Security. Episode 42, Equifax, BlueBorn, and the iPhone 10, with Carol Terrio and Graham Cluley. |
| 1:06.0 | Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of Smashing Security number 42. |
| 1:09.6 | My name is Graham Cluley, and I'm joined as ever by my good chumman co-host Corrool Terrio. Hello, Corral. How are you? |
| 1:16.3 | I am splendid today. |
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