062: Tinder spying, Amazon shoplifting, and petrol pump malware
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2018
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Your Tinder swipes can be spied upon, Amazon is opening high street stores that don't require any staff, and Russian fuel pumps are being infected with malware in an elaborate scheme to make large amounts of money.
With Carole on a top secret special assignment, it's left to security veteran Graham Cluley to discuss all this and much much more with special guests David McClelland and Vanja Švajcer.
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Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and rude language.
Special Guests: David McClelland and Vanja Švajcer.
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Links:
- Tinder's Lack of Encryption Lets Strangers Spy on Your Swipes
- Tinder drift demo - YouTube
- Using public Wi-Fi - a Smashing Security splinter
- Watchdog Wednesday: WiFi hackers - BBC
- Apple drops requirement for apps to use HTTPS by 2017
- Amazon Go debuts, and its prying cameras foil our shoplifting attempts
- Hacker Infects Gas Pumps with Code to Cheat Customers
- Making Blake's Seven 101 - YouTube
- Jon Alpert Speaks On His Film, "Cuba and the Cameraman" - YouTube
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, yes, I know, I'm late, I'm late, but I'm ready to start the show. |
| 0:09.8 | So you give me the word, Croll, and we'll begin, all right, okay. |
| 0:16.5 | Corral? |
| 0:17.6 | You there? |
| 0:19.7 | Croll? |
| 0:20.1 | Croll? |
| 0:22.4 | No. You there? Corral? Smashing Security, episode 62, Tinder spying, Amazon shoplifting, and petrol pump malware with Carol Terrio and Graham Cluley. |
| 0:37.3 | Hello, hello, and welcome to episode 62 of Smashing Security. |
| 0:42.2 | I'm Graham Cluley and I'm not joined by my regular co-host, Coral Terrier. |
| 0:48.2 | Bad news for her, many, many fans. |
| 0:50.8 | Unfortunately, Coroll is unable to join us today because she's on a top secret assignment. |
| 0:55.5 | However, we are enormously lucky to have two guests, two people who've starred on Smashing |
| 1:01.9 | Security before, and they are going to jump into her sizable shoes. We've got Vanier and |
| 1:08.3 | David McClellan. Hello, guys. Hi, Graham. |
| 1:11.4 | Hello, Vanya. Hello, Graham. Hi. Thank you for coming along and stepping in because she wasn't able to make it today. |
| 1:18.9 | David, you live a very glamorous life. You're normally whizzing around places and... |
| 1:23.6 | Well, is it correct, David? I don't know if I've... I don't know if this is a myth or something. Is it correct that you have been in pantomime? |
| 1:31.9 | Oh, yes, I have. Oh, no, you know. Oh, yes. So the big story, yeah, the back story there is back in the 90s, I actually trained to be an actor. And I went to drama school here in the UK for three years in lovely Guildford. |
| 1:46.3 | And pretty much every year since I left in 2000, I've done Panto in one part of the country or another. |
| 1:53.4 | Love it. |
| 1:54.0 | It's pretty much what Christmas has been about for me for years and years and years. |
| 1:57.8 | But I've got a young family of my own now, and the whole thing about |
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