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Smashing Security

051: Robots, romance, passwords, and CrunchyRoll

Smashing Security

Graham Cluley

Tech News, News, Technology

4.7579 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Passwords are under the microscope again, CrunchyRoll leads anime fans to malware, a sexy robot gains Saudi citizenship, and Carole begins her career as an agony aunt.

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 are joined this week by special guest Maria Varmazis.

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0:00.0

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0:08.9

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0:14.9

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0:26.4

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0:47.7

Smashing Security, 51, Robots, Romance, Passwords, and Crunchy Roll with Carol Terrio and Graham Cluley.

0:51.3

Hello, hello, and welcome to Smashing Security episode 51.

1:29.2

My name is Graham Cluley, and I'm joined as always by my good chum and co-host, Corral. Hello, Corral. Hello, Graham. And this week, Krall, we are joined by a special guest, a returning special guest. Yes, we are. Bring of the show, Maria Vermasces. Hello, Maria again. Hello, how is everyone doing? Happy that you're here. Oh, well. Yeah. I'm just a ray of sunshine. Didn't want to have to do another one on my own with Graham. Yeah, we were all locked away on our own. In fact, if you listened last week, we had this rather interesting discussion. I don't know quite how it came up, and we got some interesting responses from listeners. Basically, we have opened up Carole's Agony Corner.

1:31.2

Most excellent.

1:39.5

So, which means that we invited people to send in their personal relationship, their sexual problems. You keep going on about sexual.

1:41.4

Especially the sexual problems.

1:42.6

Yeah, great.

1:42.8

And keeps going about sexual.

1:43.8

Yeah, so great. Now Marie is on board. Great. It's voyeuristic. What can I say? I received some doozies. Let me tell you. Yeah, we did get some interesting responses to that request, didn't we? Some of which I think are unbroadcastable. Yeah, but some are broadcastable. Okay. You can't tease people like that. Now you have to share them. Well, we are going to share them, but we're going to share them as like a bonus B-side at the end of the show. Okay. So keep listening. Hang around until later in the show. And then we will open up the corner. And for those people who are interested, there may not be much security content,

2:21.0

but we'll get into that.

2:22.7

But right now, we are going to get into our security content, the usual part of the show,

2:26.8

where we each tackle a topic from the week, from the world of computer security

2:31.0

and associated industries, things which have quartered eye and caused us to

2:35.7

cause our nostrils to tremble a little bit of interest. So what's wrong with that?

2:42.9

It's very hard, Coral, you know, introducing this section of the show. Being interesting, yeah.

2:47.9

Being interesting, yeah. I know you have trouble with it. So my topic of the week is I've seen a couple of new surveys which come out in recent days about how passwords are being used in business. And surprise, surprise, it's not good news, chaps. What? I know. It's a shocker, isn't it? It's never good news when it comes to passwords.

3:08.5

It isn't, is it?

3:09.4

So, I mean, one of the reports has come out from last pass, of course, have

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