052: Facebook tackles vengeful scumbags, and a sex toy privacy boob
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2017
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Is your dildo listening to you? Do you trust Facebook with your most intimate photos? And just how did a vengeful DDoSer come up with that nickname?
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 John Hawes.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and today's episode of Smashing Security is supported in part by NetSparker. |
| 0:09.2 | They are the web application and security scanner that can automatically find security flaws in your website |
| 0:15.0 | and fix them before hackers can exploit them. |
| 0:17.7 | If you want to automatically check your web applications for cross-site |
| 0:21.6 | scripting, sequel injection and other vulnerabilities in code and errors that can leave you |
| 0:26.0 | and your business exposed to malicious hackers, check out NetSparker. Try it out now by downloading |
| 0:33.4 | the demo from www.netsparker.com slash smashing. And thanks to NetSparker for supporting the show. |
| 0:45.4 | Smashing Security, Episode 52. Facebook tackles vengeful scumbags and a sex toy privacy boob with Carol Terry O' and Graham Cluley. |
| 0:56.2 | Hello, hello and welcome to episode two of Carole's Agony Corner. |
| 1:01.1 | The regular... |
| 1:02.1 | Oh, Carol, hi there, how you doing? |
| 1:06.4 | I'm doing well. I'm doing well. We'll do it again sometime. We've had so much feedback saying it was fun. We'll do it again, but maybe not every week. It's a lot of work. I had people coming up to me in the street saying, about that cat, with their sharing their opinions. And it's like people who I didn't even know listen to the podcast, but clearly do. But that was the one thing which really got them interested. If you don't know what we're talking about, go listen to episode 51. That's right. And we're also joined this week. By the way, it's smashing security, episode 52, actually. And it's not our one-year anniversary because there was weeks when we did two episodes. Do you remember those Halcyon days when we were that key that we do lots of episodes per week. Yes, but we'll be coming up to our birthday, |
| 1:47.6 | won't we, just before remember those Halcyon days when we were that key. We'd do lots of episodes per week. |
| 1:45.2 | Yes, but we'll be coming up to our birthday, won't we? Just before Christmas, I think. Yes. That'll be fantastic. And we are joined this week by a returning special guest, Mr. John Hawes. Hello, John. How are you? Hello, hello. I'm very well. Yay. Good to have you here, John. And as always, this week, there's been a lot going on, hasn't there, in the world of computer security in the last week. |
| 2:03.7 | So we have... Yay! Good to have you here, John. And as always, this week, there's been a lot going on, hasn't there, |
| 2:01.8 | in the world of computer security in the last week. |
| 2:03.7 | So we have picked a few of the topics, |
| 2:06.7 | things which have caught our interest, |
| 2:08.8 | which we will chat about right now. |
| 2:10.6 | And the first thing I wanted to talk about was Facebook and revenge porn. |
| 2:17.3 | Actually, I don't want to talk about revenge porn because I really |
| 2:20.0 | dislike that phrase revenge porn. Oh, I'm glad you just said that because I was about to take |
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