060: Meltdown, Spectre, and personal devices in the White House
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
The chips are down, as tech companies struggle to protect against the Meltdown and Spectre flaws. The White House is getting tough on leakers by banning personal devices from the West Wing. And someone has been embedding a Bitcoin wallet into their hand...
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 technology journalist and broadcaster David McClelland.
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Links:
- Apple fixes the Meltdown and Spectre flaws in Macs, iPhones, and iPads
- Spectre? Meltdown? F*CKWIT? Calm down and make yourself some tea
- Until your anti-virus adds this Registry key, you aren't getting any more Windows security updates
- Important information about Microsoft Meltdown CPU security fixes, antivirus vendors and you
- Ouch! Microsoft's Meltdown and Spectre security update bricks some AMD-powered PCs
- Ripple soars, becomes second-biggest cryptocurrency by market cap
- BICHIP
- Would you store Ripple and Bitcoin in 'mark of the beast' microchip?
- Biohacker Summit 2017 – Uniting Technology & Nature
- Meet the first humans to sense where north is
- White House bans use of personal devices from West Wing
- “Fire and Fury” Is a Book All Too Worthy of the President
- Portal Knights - The award-winning sandbox action-RPG adventure game
- Portal Knights trailer for Nintendo Switch - YouTube
- Focus - Productivity Timer on the App Store
- Casefile: True Crime Podcast
- Smashing Security on Facebook
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Due to security and integrity concerns, they have to say adieu to their personal devices when in the West Wing. |
| 0:07.7 | And that means everything. Phones, laptops, Rumbus, fridges, whatever. Nothing's getting in. |
| 0:13.1 | You never know. Maybe some of them will bring one in. Keep their office clean. |
| 0:17.0 | Are the cleaners at the West Wing that bad? I'm going to have to ring my own vacuum cleaner in. |
| 0:20.8 | It's the only way to deal with this. |
| 0:22.7 | There's so many breadcrumbs. |
| 0:29.1 | Smashing Security, Episode 60, Meltdown, Spectre, and Personal Devices in the White House, with Carol Terrio and Graham Cluley. |
| 0:39.0 | Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of Smashing Security, Episode 60. |
| 0:43.0 | My name is Graham Cluley. |
| 0:44.3 | I'm Carl Terrio. |
| 0:46.4 | And we rehearsed this before we started, and I completely felt to come in on cue. |
| 0:53.4 | Oh dear. |
| 0:55.7 | Welcome to 2018, everyone. |
| 1:00.4 | Who are you? Who are you? And I... What are you doing here? And I am David McClelland. |
| 1:05.9 | Hi, David. Good to have you back on the show yet again. Is everyone having a nice new year? |
| 1:10.1 | Wait, it's not new year anymore, is it? Everyone recovered back to work, I suppose, the grind. I have malaise. I have |
| 1:11.8 | Malays. I have January malaise. Oh. It's dark. It gets dark in this country so early. |
| 1:18.9 | Hate it. I'm just holding up until it gets sunny. We are getting close to Blue Monday, |
| 1:23.8 | which I think is Monday the 13th or no 15th or something like that. And that is, yes, |
| 1:29.6 | the most depressing day of the year. So I'm not alone. |
| 1:33.8 | Is that the one where we all have to listen to Joy Division, something? What's the... |
| 1:38.2 | Hey, there's nothing wrong with Joy Division. I have a Joy Division t-shirt. Not on Blue Monday. |
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