061: Fallout over Hawaii missile false alarm
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
User interfaces and poor procedures lead to pandemonium in Hawaii, hackers are attempting to trick victims into opening cryptocurrency-related email attachments, and yet more pox-ridden apps are found in Android's Google Play store.
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 special guest Paul Ducklin.
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Links:
- Hawaii's ballistic missile false alarm and a user interface failure
- Hawaii missile alert: How one employee ‘pushed the wrong button’ and caused a wave of panic
- What Hawaii Was Like After the False Nuclear Alarm
- Cryptocurrency as the lure, an ISO as the attachment – why not open it?
- Malware Displaying Porn Ads Discovered in Game Apps on Google Play
- Games with pornographic ads sneak into the Play Store, get 3 million downloads
- Fake WhatsApp app tricked over a million users
- @ruanyf on Twitter's picture of a visual display for a Chinese lavatory
- Police give out infected USBs as prizes in cybersecurity quiz
- IBM distributes USB malware cocktail at AusCERT security conference
- IBM has been shipping malware-infected USB sticks
- Olympus Stylus Tough camera carries malware infection
- Google Arts and Culture app: How to find which famous painting you look like – and why people don't want to
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| 0:00.0 | This is the whole conversation that we're having right now. |
| 0:06.0 | No, I know. So let's just shut up. Let's just shut up. Let's go. |
| 0:10.0 | Just shut up. Let's start this baby. |
| 0:12.2 | Oh. |
| 0:13.0 | Now, I'm warning you. I have a cat. It's, he's... |
| 0:16.7 | Well, do that in the introduction. |
| 0:18.2 | Okay. |
| 0:19.0 | Shut up. See, you shut up. |
| 0:20.3 | Shut up. Everyone shut up. Shut up. Let's just do the introduction. Okay. Shut up. See, you shut up. Shut up. Shut up. |
| 0:21.4 | Let's just do the show. |
| 0:24.1 | Shut up. |
| 0:25.2 | Shut up. |
| 0:25.8 | Shut up. |
| 0:26.8 | Shut up. |
| 0:27.4 | Shut up. |
| 0:30.9 | Smashing Security. |
| 0:32.5 | Episode 61. |
| 0:34.2 | Fallout over Hawaii. |
| 0:36.2 | Missile Force alarm with Carol Terrio and Graham Cluley. Hello, hello, and welcome to Smash Insecurity Episode 61. My name is Graham Cluelly. And I'm Carol Terrio. And we are joined today by a returning guest. He hasn't been with us for a while. It is Mr. Paul Ducklin, also known as Duck from Sophos. Hi, Duck. Hello, chaps. Hi. I said that very forcefully, just because I couldn't think of a better way to say it. Do you know, Doc, I think that you have been a guest that has returned most out of all guests that we've had on the show. I think this maybe a sixth time on the show, something like that. Because it's great. I was going to offer my own opinion, |
| 1:11.6 | but I'll take yours. Actually, I think we have now relegated Vanuizsvitzer to guest status |
| 1:17.8 | on the webpage rather than co-host. That's good company, good talk, that's good company. |
| 1:23.4 | It is. Well, he is quite a cool cat. That would be cool. |
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