076: Spying phones, hacked ski lifts, and World Password Day
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2018
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Cheap Android smartphones sold on Amazon have been sending customers' full text messages to a Chinese server, ski lifts are found to be the latest devices left open to abuse by hackers, and we remind you why password managers are a good idea on World Password Day. Oh, and our guest serenades us with a hit from the 1980s!
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 journalist and broadcaster David McClelland.
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Links:
- See Smashing Security LIVE!
- Mobile Phone Maker BLU Reaches Settlement with FTC over Deceptive Privacy and Data Security Claims
- Phone maker settles charges it let partner collect customers’ text messages
- Backdoor in some Android phones caught secretly sending data to China
- UK bank advises against password managers - Twitter
- Santander Locks Horns with Security Pros, NCSC Over Password Managers
- Passwords - a Smashing Security splinter episode
- Terrifying Ski Lift Malfunction Caught On Camera - YouTube
- Ski Lift in Austria Left Control Panel Open on the Internet
- Control of Tyrolean cable car open in the network accessible
- BBC Sound Effects
- Chess - English National Opera
- Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok "From CHESS" - YouTube
- Elaine Paige, Barbara Dickson - I Know Him So Well "From CHESS" - YouTube
- World Community Grid - Research Overview
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Now, it may surprise you, Shanghai Adups Technology Co-limited is actually a Chinese firm. |
| 0:09.6 | And what they do, their business, is they say, look, we've got the technology to wirelessly update software installed on mobile and IOT devices. |
| 0:17.4 | And they have a number of big-name clients, not just blue, but ZTE, and the impossible |
| 0:22.0 | to pronounce, and I'm going to look at you now, David, Hawaii, Hawaii. |
| 0:26.7 | My take on this is to adopt the 1980s kind of football chant, who are we? |
| 0:36.8 | Okay, like that. |
| 0:37.9 | Like that. |
| 0:38.4 | Funny. |
| 0:40.9 | Smashing Security, episode 76. |
| 0:44.5 | Spying phones. |
| 0:45.9 | Hacked ski lifts and world password day with Carol Terrio and Graham Cluley. |
| 0:51.8 | Hello, hello, and welcome to Smashing Security episode 76. My name is Graham Cluelly. I'm Carol Terrio. And we're joined today by returning guest. It's the Globe Trotting TV star broadcaster and journalist David McLean. Hello, David. Hello, Graham. Hello, Carol. Lovely to hear from you again. Yes, so good. You're on the show again. It's great to have you back. I know you've been trotting around the world, doing all kinds of things. |
| 1:12.9 | He's been to China. |
| 1:13.8 | He's not a pig. You've said trotting twice. What's going on? He's just trying to undermine you, David. I know his techniques. He's a busy chap. So we always appreciate him coming on the show and talking of shows david you may have |
| 1:29.2 | heard if you've been following our twitter and our gracious listeners may have heard as well that we are |
| 1:34.0 | going to take our show on the road next month in the month of june so where are you going where |
| 1:41.2 | are you trotting off to, Graham? Yeah, Graham. |
| 1:44.8 | My piggy little eyes and four little trotters will be ambling along. |
| 1:49.3 | First of all, we're going to Cambridge and then London, Manchester and Edinburgh. |
| 1:53.4 | Sounds so pizzazzy, doesn't it? |
| 1:55.7 | Doesn't it? |
| 1:56.7 | We will be appearing as part of the Secure Tour with our good chums at chess cyber security. |
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