055: Uber, net neutrality, and website hacks
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Uber covers up a data breach, the noose tightens on net neutrality, and Bulletproof's website spills the data beans.
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 umm.. nobody because they didn't arrange a special guest.
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Links:
- Uber paid hackers $100,000 to keep data breach quiet
- Bulletproof breach notification letter to customers (PDF)
- Bulletproof Coffee lacks bulletproof security: Nerd brain juice biz hacked, cards gulped
- Net Neutrality: What You Need to Know Now
- Racist, threatening attacks on FCC Chair Ajit Pai won't save net neutrality
- Americans are spending Thanksgiving fighting for net neutrality
- An update on the fight for the free and open internet
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What is a hamburger? |
| 0:04.0 | A hamburger's different from a beef burger, right? |
| 0:06.6 | Because hams comes from pigs. |
| 0:08.6 | Yeah, that's not where the name comes from. |
| 0:10.9 | It's Hamburg place. |
| 0:13.4 | Oh, really? |
| 0:15.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:17.4 | And it's nothing to do of hamburglers. |
| 0:19.7 | No. |
| 0:22.7 | Smashing Security, Episode 55, Uber, Net Neutrality, and Website Hacks, with Carol Terrio and Graham Cluley. |
| 0:32.4 | Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of Smashing Security, episode 55, for the 30th of November 2017. |
| 0:39.4 | I'm Graham Clooney. |
| 0:40.1 | And I'm Carol Terry O. |
| 0:41.7 | And once again, we are going to dive into the murky waters of cyber security. |
| 0:47.2 | But hey, Kroll, in the last regular episode, we missed a big story, didn't we? |
| 0:51.1 | Oh, yeah, we did. |
| 0:52.6 | Uber's farcical data breach incident, |
| 0:56.8 | 57 million account users found that they had been compromised by a hack. A hack, which is said |
| 1:04.9 | to have happened back in October 2016, but it's only been made public a year later, not because Uber didn't know about it, |
| 1:12.9 | but because Uber covered it up. |
| 1:15.3 | I know. It's so shameful. I think you should just tell the story. Just give the highlights of |
| 1:19.2 | how it actually happened from what you've pieced together so far, because it's just fascinating. |
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