064: So just a "teeny tiny" security issue then?
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2018
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
A Namecheap vulnerability allows strangers to make subdomains for your website, Troy Hunt examines password length, and ex-Google and Facebook employees are fighting to protect kids from social media addiction.
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 HaveIBeenPwned's Troy Hunt.
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Links:
- Namecheap Name Server Vulnerability Allows Unauthorized Users to Create Sub-Domains
- That’s not how security works, security is not obscurity
- Update on Recent Hosting Breach - Namecheap Blog
- Have I been pwned? Pwned Passwords
- How Long is Long Enough? Minimum Password Lengths by the World's Top Sites
- Center for Humane Technology
- Adam Alter: Why our screens make us less happy
- Ex Facebook, Google Employees Launch Anti-Tech Campaign
- Social Networking Sites and Addiction: Ten Lessons Learned
- 'Fiction is outperforming reality': how YouTube's algorithm distorts truth
- AlphaGo movie
- In Two Moves, AlphaGo and Lee Sedol Redefined the Future
- Ubiquiti Networks
- Basic Crepe Batter Recipe
- Gateau de crepes
- Smashing Security on Facebook
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You can't say that's the man with half a billion passwords. |
| 0:05.1 | I'm sorry, dude. |
| 0:06.3 | You know, I'm sorry. |
| 0:07.4 | He's got this great big butterfly collection and telling him butterflies suck. |
| 0:16.1 | Smashing Security, Episode 64. |
| 0:19.4 | So just a teeny tiny security issue then, with Carol Terrio and Graham |
| 0:24.0 | Cluley. Hello, hello and welcome to another episode of Smashing Security, Episode 64. My name is |
| 0:30.2 | Graham Cluley. I'm Carl Terrio. And we're joined today by the doyen of data breach disclosure and |
| 0:36.3 | general internet superhero from |
| 0:38.1 | down under. It's Troy Hunt. Hello, Troy. Well, that was really good until the last bit. |
| 0:42.8 | Well done. I don't know if you've heard the last few episodes, but he's been doing a lot of |
| 0:47.2 | really, really bad Australian accents. And I can't even believe you're on the show after hearing |
| 0:51.7 | those. Yeah, well, anyway, are there any particular Australian phrases which you're on the show after hearing those. Yeah, well, anyway. |
| 0:59.9 | Are there any particular Australian phrases which you think would improve our accents, |
| 1:01.1 | anything we could try out? |
| 1:04.3 | Because we want to increase our audience down there. |
| 1:08.1 | No, I think you should just go back to sending bad people from your end of the world over to our end of the world. |
| 1:09.2 | You know, that worked out very well. |
| 1:10.7 | Thank you very much for it. Have you seen where you sent the worst people? What was wrong with you people? I know. It was insane, wasn't it? We gather together all our bogans, our dags are drop kicks. We sent them to us. And we sent them to Australia, of all places. We should have gone to Australia and left them here. When I say we, I am Canadian. |
| 1:28.7 | Oh, sorry. |
| 1:29.2 | Well, you're sort of Canadian. |
| 1:29.9 | You're on your own on this one. |
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