069: Cryptomining, China, and Bob Ross
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2018
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
How come Apple's Mac App Store authorised a buggy app that mined for cryptocurrency in the background? How can a Mosquito attack steal data from an air-gapped computer? And is China keeping score on its social media-loving citizens?
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 John Hawes.
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Links:
- There’s a currency miner in the Mac App Store, and Apple seems OK with it
- A Surreptitious Cryptocurrency Miner in the Mac App Store?
- MOSQUITO Attack Allows Air-Gapped Computers to Covertly Exchange Data
- MOSQUITO earbuds: Jumping air-gaps via speaker-to-speaker communication - YouTube
- Would you choose a partner based on their 'citizen score'?
- China eyes 'black tech' to boost security as parliament meets
- Big data meets Big Brother as China moves to rate its citizens
- How WeChat came to rule China
- The Rubik's Contraption
- 0.38 Second Rubik's Cube Solve - YouTube
- Statista - The Statistics Portal for Market Data, Market Research and Market Studies
- Bob Ross - Wikipedia
- Is there a way to stop certain video suggestions on Youtube? I watched like 3 flat earth videos so I could have a good laugh, and now 90% of the recommended videos are from flattards
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | How are you going to listen to Smashing Security podcast while you're in the secure room? Right, no, no, no. So I'm not going to say no speakers. My idea, it's ultrasonic's, right? Get a chihuahua. Every office needs a chihuahua. A little Maltese. Or a lovely multi. I love Maltese. I love those. A Puberador. What's that? |
| 0:37.4 | It's the opposite of a Labradoondoodie. And he could pick up, it could pick up the high frequencies and like, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. Pubidor could be Pug and Labrador, actually. That's a poor, poor Labrador. Poor Pug. Poor Pug! |
| 0:51.6 | Smashing Security, Episode 69, Crypto Mining, China, and Bob Ross, with Carol Terry O and Graham Cleo. Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of Smashing Security episode number |
| 0:56.5 | 69. |
| 0:58.1 | My name is Graham Clooney. |
| 0:59.6 | I'm Carol Terrio, or Carol Terrio? |
| 1:02.9 | Oh, I see. |
| 1:03.8 | Oh, la la. |
| 1:05.3 | And we are joined today by Monsieur Jean Ours of the Anti-Mower testing standards organisation, Amtso. |
| 1:13.7 | Hi, John. |
| 1:14.6 | Bonjour, bonjour. |
| 1:17.8 | So, John, Amtso, it's not a reviews agency, is it? |
| 1:22.3 | You're sort of setting standards for tests instead, as I remember. |
| 1:25.9 | That's right, yes. |
| 1:26.5 | We're trying to guide people who do tests to do it better. |
| 1:30.0 | Have you thought about rating and considering reviews instead? |
| 1:34.8 | Because we've had a couple of bad reviews on iTunes for this podcast in the last week or so. |
| 1:42.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:43.3 | And I really would like an independent organisation like yourself to take a look at them and give us your feedback. Are they fair? That kind of thing. How does that sound to you? Our review is supposed to be fair? Isn't the point of them that it's people just venting? Well, I don't know. You're the one who's testing reviewers. Carol, would you like to start off by reading out the first bad review that Smashing |
| 2:04.1 | Insecurity has had at least this week? |
| 2:06.1 | Oh, not ever. |
| 2:07.4 | No, not ever. |
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