077: Why Paris Hilton doesn’t use iCloud, lottery hacking, and Facebook dating
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
The tricky-to-pronounce Paytsar Bkhchadzhyan is jailed for hacking Paris Hilton, we hear the story of the man who hacked the lottery and almost got away with $16.5 million, and Facebook thinks it is the perfect partner to find you a date.
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 the CyberWire's Dave Bittner.
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Links:
- Paris Hilton's hacker sentenced to 57 months in prison
- FBI wasn't able to unlock iPhone, even with a 'fingerprint unlock warrant'
- Paris Hilton Comes Face to Face With Her Hacker in Court - YouTube
- Tweet by Paris Hilton: "Karma has no menu. You get served what you deserve..."
- Paris Hilton: Hacked or Not?
- Two-factor authentication for Apple ID - Apple Support
- The Man Who Cracked the Lottery
- Lottery security director accused of hacking random-number generator
- Iowa Lottery releases surveillance footage of mystery Hot Lotto winner - YouTube
- Facebook announces dating app focused on 'meaningful relationships'
- Facebook F8 2018: Facebook is launching a new dating service
- How will Facebook’s dating service work?
- 14 years of Mark Zuckerberg saying sorry, not sorry about Facebook
- Does the Dog Die?
- Kingdom Rush
- Sandra
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | In fact, a US judge controversially ordered her to unlock an iPhone with a fingerprint. |
| 0:10.0 | Now, the rule is, if you ever get caught by the authorities, by the fence. |
| 0:14.4 | Cut your thumbs off. |
| 0:15.5 | Yeah, cut your thumbs off quick. |
| 0:17.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:18.1 | Preemptively, just in case. |
| 0:19.4 | You can never be too careful. |
| 0:21.6 | Bite it off with your teeth if you have. Bite it Bite it off and swallow those thumbs. And then hope the fingerprint |
| 0:25.6 | disappears before. Oh, yeah. Good mess. Hope you have strong stomach acid. That's right. |
| 0:35.5 | Smashing Security. Episode 77. Why Paris Hilton doesn't use ICloud, lottery hacking, and Facebook dating with Carol Terrio and Graham Cluley. |
| 0:46.8 | Hello, hello, and welcome Smashing Security episode 77. My name is Graham Cluley. |
| 0:52.0 | And I'm Carol Terrio. Hi, Carol. How are you doing? I'm fine, thank you. It's a beautiful day here. It's lovely, isn't it? And it's made even more beautiful by our special guest this week. It is the delectable, the delightful. The CyberWires, Dave Bittner. Dave, must be morning where you are at the moment. |
| 1:14.9 | Good morning, good morning, we've talked the whole night through. |
| 1:18.5 | Good morning, good morning to you and you and you and you. He's competing with David McKellen. |
| 1:20.3 | He is. |
| 1:21.2 | That's coming after you, McKellen. |
| 1:22.7 | There's only one David on this show. |
| 1:25.1 | I hope it's not raining where you're singing at the moment. |
| 1:28.1 | It is not. |
| 1:28.8 | It's actually a beautiful spring day. |
| 1:31.1 | It's lovely outside. |
| 1:32.9 | And I'm sitting in a windowless dark room speaking to you all. |
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