073: Rick Astley: Never gonna hack you up...
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2018
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Politician admits to hacking a rival's website, T-Mobile Austria ends up in a Twitter security storm, and siren systems are hit by a Rick Astley attack.
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, joined this week by special guest Maria Varmazis.
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Links:
- Spoof blogger attacks Harman site
- Harman hack horror has blog backing Boris
- Harriet Harman resigns!
- Boris Johnson left hanging on zip wire during Olympic event
- How to Hack Harriet Harman
- Top Conservative MP tipped as a future Prime Minister admits hacking into Labour MP's website
- Bafflement over Tory MP's admission she hacked Harriet Harman's website
- Harriet Harman accepts Tory MP Kemi Badenoch's hacking apology
- The lax computer security of British MPs - as detailed in their own tweets
- T-Mobile Austria thread on Twitter
- T-Mobile Stores Part of Customers' Passwords In Plaintext, Says It Has 'Amazingly Good' Security
- SirenJack
- Emergency alert systems used across the US can be easily hijacked
- Researchers Rickrolled Emergency Alert Sirens in Proof-of-Concept Hack
- Bertram Fiddle - A Victorian point and click adventure game
- Adventures of Bertram Fiddle: Episode 1 for iOS
- Adventures of Bertram Fiddle: Episode 1 for Android
- Adventures of Bertram Fiddle: Episode 1 on Steam
- security.txt - A proposed standard which allows websites to define security policies
- Wild Wild Country
- HROOME Modern Cute Dog Lamp
- Smashing Security merchandise (t-shirts, mugs, stickers and stuff)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | that's the that's the right answer but does she deserve being dog piled on and then |
| 0:08.1 | having people go after no no yes i mean no yes i agree with you i mean okay i was going to say whoa |
| 0:16.0 | get the popcorns smashing Get to be your first. Popcorn. Smashing Security, Episode 73. |
| 0:27.7 | Rick Astley. |
| 0:28.6 | Never going to hack you up with Carol Terrio and Graham Cluley. |
| 0:33.3 | Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of Smash Insecurity, episode 73. |
| 0:38.1 | My name is Graham Clooney. |
| 0:39.9 | 73, I'm starting to feel old. |
| 0:41.6 | I'm Carol Tario. |
| 0:42.6 | It's starting to feel old. |
| 0:43.7 | You are old, aren't you? |
| 0:44.8 | How dare you? |
| 0:45.4 | And we are joined this week by the lovely returning Maria Vermasces. |
| 0:50.7 | Hello, Maria. |
| 0:51.6 | Hello, and what did you call me? |
| 0:53.0 | I said, the lovely returning. Oh, Maria. Hello, and what did you call me? I said, the lovely returning. |
| 0:55.2 | Oh, yay. |
| 0:56.2 | What did you hear, Maria? |
| 1:00.1 | No comment. |
| 1:03.9 | I think her laugh says it all. This is going to be a fun show. |
| 1:06.7 | I'm glad to be back. Just don't call me returning. |
| 1:10.2 | Sorry, I won't use the R word again. |
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