066: Passwords, pirates, and postcards
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Flight simulators packed with password-grabbing malware, Facebook fighting Russian trolls, and how vulnerability researchers fear being sued.
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 The CyberWire's Dave Bittner.
Follow the show on Twitter at @SmashinSecurity, or visit our website for more episodes.
Remember: Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app, to catch all of the episodes as they go live. Thanks for listening!
Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and rude language.
Special Guest: Dave Bittner.
Sponsored By:
- Rapid7: InsightIDR is an intruder analytics solution that gives you the confidence to detect and investigate security incidents faster. You can download a 30-day trial by visiting www.rapid7.com/insightidr
- MetaCompliance: People are the key to minimizing your Cyber Security risk posture. MetaCompliance makes this easier by providing a single platform for Phishing, Cybersecurity training, Policy, Privacy and Incident management.Go to smashingsecurity.com/metacompliance Promo Code: SMASHING
Links:
- FSLabs' A320 installer seems to include a Chrome password extraction tool
- Flight Simulator Add-On Tried to Catch Pirates By Installing Password-Stealing Malware on Their Computers
- A320-X DRM clarification - Flight Sim Labs Forums
- FlightSimLabs Alleged Malware Analysis – Luke Gorman
- A320-X DRM - what happened - Flight Sim Labs Forums
- Lawsuits threaten infosec research - just when we need it most
- Facebook plans to use U.S. mail to verify IDs of election ad buyers
- Facebook’s secret weapon in the fight against foreign meddling? Postcards
- Fact-Checking a Facebook Executive’s Comments on Russian Interference
- Punycode - Wikipedia
- IDN Safe for Chrome
- IDN Safe for Firefox
- IDN Safe for Opera
- Firefox users - Spot phishing URL's more easily by enabling Show Punycode
- Privacy.com — (Dave's recommendation, not ours)
- How to remove your credit card information from your iPhone
- Change or remove your Apple ID payment information - Apple Support
- Smashing Security on Facebook
- Smashing Security merchandise (t-shirts, mugs, stickers and stuff)
Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Smashing Security. This is the Queen. |
| 0:08.0 | That's what we think of being the Queen's English. |
| 0:10.4 | Hey, hey, buddy. You're not in the Commonwealth anymore, so you don't have the right to slagger off. |
| 0:15.5 | All right. I see. All right. Yeah. Slag off Brenda. |
| 0:32.9 | Smashing Security, Episode 66, Passwords, Pirates, and Postcards, with Carol Terrio and Graham Clule. |
| 0:39.7 | Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of Smashing Security Episode 66. My name is Graham Cluley. |
| 0:41.9 | Route 66. I'm Carol Tario. |
| 0:48.6 | Clickety-click. And we are joined today by the CyberWires, Dave Bittner. Hello, Dave. |
| 0:50.1 | Hello, all. Happy to be here. |
| 1:11.4 | Oh, that's great. Now, for those people who don't know what the cyber wire is, first of all, shame on them. But we're actually committing a little bit of pod sest today, aren't we? Yes. The cyber wire is, amongst other things, an Infosecurity podcast, right? That's right. And I've been fortunate enough to have you on our show. Oh, loving. Yeah, I know, right? |
| 1:12.6 | Yeah, thanks for the invite. |
| 1:13.5 | I love for you. |
| 1:15.3 | Well, Carol. |
| 1:18.5 | Yes, David. |
| 1:19.2 | It's an open invitation. |
| 1:20.5 | Anytime you'd like to be on, you're welcome. |
| 1:22.9 | Well, that's very kind. |
| 1:23.6 | Thank you very much. |
| 1:24.3 | Because your show is basically daily, isn't it? |
| 1:27.4 | The daily is about 20 minutes of everything you need to know in cybersecurity for that day, plus special guests and so on and so forth. It's, uh, I don't know how you do it. Honestly, there are days that I wonder how we do it as well. We have a small, we have a small team here. There's about, uh, half a dozen of us. So, us. Forget about the editing. The question I have is, do you have a life? I mean, serious. No, no, I don't mean that in an insulting way. But, I mean, it's difficult, isn't it? I mean, we find it a bit of a struggle getting the podcast out once a week. Well, if people knew what you really said, Graham, that's the problem. |
| 2:05.2 | You're welcome everyone. |
| 2:06.3 | But it's difficult, isn't it? |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Graham Cluley, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Graham Cluley and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.