049: Hacking funeral homes, crypto mining websites, and careful with that hairspray
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2017
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Scammers show a lack of imagination after hacking a funeral home, more websites are secretly stealing visitors' resources to mine for cryptocurrency, and everyone is very confused about the USA's airline laptop ban.
All this and much much 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 The Register's John Leyden.
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Links:
- Local funeral home gets hacked in the middle of the night leaving employees without access
- Local business' Yahoo! account hacked
- Smashing Security: 014: Protecting webmail
- Stealth web crypto-cash miner Coin Hive back to the drawing board as blockers move in - The Register
- Cryptocurrency mining affects over 500 million people. And they have no idea it is happening.
- Laptops and tablets have been banned from being used on 56 routes to the US
- Laptop ban: How it works, what devices are forbidden on flights
- Questions and answers on proposed ban on laptops in luggage - The Washington Post
- Inspire Candle - Twelve South
- BBC Two - The Detectives: Murder on the Streets
- This Chrome extension blocks audio and video autoplay on any website
- Autoplay blocking is coming to Chrome
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, and before we begin, a quick apology. I don't want to point any fingers on name, |
| 0:04.9 | any names, but unfortunately, on this particular episode, one of us has quite poor sound quality, |
| 0:12.4 | and basically, without dropping anybody in it or anything, we've all agreed that next time |
| 0:18.0 | any of us go to Canada, we will take the proper microphone with us to avoid this happening again. |
| 0:23.9 | Anyway, I think the episode still sounds great. |
| 0:26.8 | Lots of good content here, so enjoy the show. |
| 0:35.5 | This episode of Smashing Security is supported in part by NetSparker. |
| 0:40.0 | NetSparker is a web application security scanner that can automatically find security flaws in your website |
| 0:45.9 | and fix them before hackers can exploit them. |
| 0:49.0 | If you want to automatically check your web applications for cross-site scripting, SQL injection and other vulnerabilities, |
| 0:55.8 | as well as coding errors that can leave you and your business exposed to malicious hacker attacks, |
| 1:00.6 | you need NetSparker. Try it now by downloading a demo at NetSparker.com forward slash smashing. |
| 1:07.7 | That's netsparker.com forward slash smashing. |
| 1:28.6 | This episode of Smashing Security is also supported by Intersect. They have a webinar which promises to tell you everything you need to know about the secret key to PSD2 compliance. Sign up right now at smashinsurity.com slash intersect. That's E-N-T- E-R-S-E-K-T. |
| 1:40.0 | Smashing Security, Episode 49, Hacking Funeral Homes, Crypto Mining websites, |
| 1:44.6 | and careful with our hairspray, with Carol Terrio and Graham Cluley. |
| 1:51.1 | Hello, hello, and welcome to episode 49 of Smashing Security for the 26th of October 2017. |
| 1:55.8 | My name is Graham Clule, and I'm joined as always by my good chum and co-host Coral Terrio. |
| 1:56.6 | Hello, Kroel! |
| 1:59.2 | Hello, Graham, hello from Canada. |
| 2:01.6 | Oh, you're over in Canada at the moment, are you? |
| 2:03.3 | Yes, you know that. |
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