050: MailChimp, Piers Morgan, and The Dark Overlord
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2017
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
There's little time to celebrate our 50th episode, because there are rants to be had about MailChimp's switch to single opt-in, Graham upsets Piers Morgan on Twitter, and the Dark Overlord hacking gang are up to some pretty horrid tricks.
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, who didn't bother to organise a special guest this week.
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Links:
- Graham declines to appear on Good Morning Britain
- Piers Morgan responds to Graham
- Piers Morgan tells Leveson: Daily Mirror did not hack phones
- Piers Morgan told me how to hack a phone, says Jeremy Paxman
- Daily Mirror owners must pay £1.2m to celebrity phone-hacking victims
- Wendi Deng protects Rupert Murdoch from custard pie
- I can no longer recommend MailChimp
- Mailchimp backtracks on all their recommendations, enforcing single opt-in
- Massive email bombs target government email addresses
- Smashing Security: GDPR - The good and the bad
- Another Hollywood studio is hacked by The Dark Overlord
- Hackers hit plastic surgery, threaten to release patient list and photographs
- ‘Dark Overlord’ Hackers Text Death Threats to Students, Then Dump Voicemails From Victims
- "Saved you a click" on Reddit
- Google CEO to fix burger emoji after heated debate cooks up on Twitter
- "Get Me Roger Stone"
- Pencil Grip
- Ignite Elite - Rechargeable USB Flameless Lighter
- Smashing Security: Bonus behind the scenes - shower time
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, Mr. Cluelly. |
| 0:02.9 | Good morning. |
| 0:04.9 | Afternoon, actually. |
| 0:06.1 | Yeah, afternoon. |
| 0:06.9 | Well, I just got back from Canada, you see, so I'm a bit... |
| 0:09.6 | My timeline is all a bit messy. |
| 0:11.9 | You're a bit let-jagged. |
| 0:13.1 | Bit let-jagged, yes, exactly. |
| 0:15.9 | I guess we should get on with this. |
| 0:20.4 | Hi, this episode of Smesion Security is supported in part by NetSparker. |
| 0:24.6 | NetSparker is a web application security scanner that can automatically find security |
| 0:29.1 | flaws in your website and fix them before hackers can exploit them. |
| 0:32.9 | If you want to automatically check your web applications for cross-site scripting, |
| 0:36.9 | SQL injection, and other |
| 0:38.2 | vulnerabilities and code and errors that can leave you and your business exposed, then you need |
| 0:43.6 | NetSparker. Try it out now by downloading a demo from www.netSparker.com slash smashing. |
| 0:50.9 | This episode of Smashing Security is also supported by Intersect. |
| 0:54.9 | Intersect develops authentication and mobile security solutions that make the internet a safer place to bank and shop. |
| 1:01.6 | Listen to their webinar where you learn everything you need to know about the secret key to PSD2 compliance. |
| 1:08.8 | Sign up at smashing security.com slash intersect. That's E-N-T-E-R-N-S-D-2 compliance. Sign up at smashing security.com slash intersect. |
| 1:12.8 | That's E-N-T-R-S-E-K-T. |
| 1:16.4 | On with the show. |
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