072: Why are firms so cr*p with our private data?
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Grindr, MyFitnessPal, and Panera Bread. They've all had data breach scares of varying degrees this week. Some handled the security breaches well, some didn't. We took a look at how well different firms are respecting your data privacy.
All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, who don't have a special guest this week.
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- Grindr Is Letting Other Companies See User HIV Status And Location Data
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- Grindr to stop sharing HIV status with third parties
- Hackers steal data of 150 million MyFitnessPal app users
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- Panerabread.com Leaks Millions of Customer Records
- No, Panera Bread Doesn’t Take Security Seriously
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| 0:00.0 | If you're thinking you can scam me, if you're thinking you can make money, you know, it's just like, and this guy said, look, I never mentioned money. I never did. I'm just trying to tell you about the problem here. |
| 0:17.5 | Smashing Security, episode 72. Why our firms so crap with our private data with Carol Terrio and Graham Cluley. |
| 0:27.0 | Hello, hello, and welcome to Smashing Security episode 72. My name is Graham Cluley. I'm Carol Terrio. |
| 0:34.6 | And Carol, this is our second time recording this podcast, isn't it? I know. I don't know how we're going to make it sound as fresh. So we should explain. We did record a version of this podcast with a special guest. And I'm sorry for them that they're not included on this re-recording, but... It was just technicality stuff. Yeah. For various reasons, we're not able to use that. And so we've had to re-record at the last minute. |
| 0:57.0 | And it's going to be wonderful, isn't it? It's just technicality stuff. For various reasons, we're not able to use that. |
| 0:54.3 | And so we've had to re-record at the last minute. And it's going to be wonderful, isn't it? Yes. It's going to be amazing. We're going to make up for... We're going to be well-behaved, don't we, Carol? We're not going to be nasty to each other or bicker or anything like that, are we? You shouldn't do any of that. Definitely not. |
| 1:11.1 | Because that's not the kind of thing we do on the Smashing Security podcast, is it? |
| 1:14.2 | No. Um, you shouldn't do any of that. Definitely not. |
| 1:11.1 | Because that's not the kind of thing we do on the Smashing Security podcast, is it? |
| 1:14.3 | No, no, no, no, no, no, always good quality. |
| 1:16.7 | Okay, well, we'll be right back with the regular show straight off the break. |
| 1:20.0 | Da-da-da-da. |
| 1:22.6 | Thanks to Metaccompliance for supporting this episode of Smashing Security. |
| 1:26.9 | People are the key to minimizing your cybersecurity risk posture. |
| 1:31.4 | And meta-compliance makes this easier by providing a single platform for fishing, |
| 1:36.1 | cybersecurity training, policy, privacy, and incident management. |
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| 1:48.8 | Just visit www.mettaccompliance.com. |
| 1:52.5 | That's wwwmetaccompliance.com. |
| 1:57.7 | So, Krull, if you were an animal, what kind of animal would you be? |
| 2:04.5 | Probably, that's a hard question. |
| 2:07.4 | I think I'd probably be a leopard. |
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