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The Naked Scientists Podcast

Cyber Security: When Crime Goes Online

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Natural Sciences, Science, Science Radio, Naked Scientists, Health & Fitness, Engineering, Medicine, Technology, Life Sciences

4.6958 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

As life moves increasingly online, so do crime and fraud. This week, we uncover some personal secrets from a supposedly blank hard drive, find out how hackers can use baby monitors to spy on people and hear about the next generation of passwords. Plus, news of how Zika virus could be used to combat brain cancer and plans to build a bigger, stronger particle accelerator. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0

I have you loud and clear.

0:03.3

Hello.

0:04.3

Hello.

0:05.3

Welcome.

0:06.3

Science.

0:09.3

And that is the same physics, medicine, nature, or a big time, a brain, life, the universe.

0:16.7

This week we're tapping into cyber security to find out how vulnerable we are online,

0:21.8

and will also reveal what we discovered lurking on a discarded laptop.

0:25.6

Plus using zeka virus to attack brain cancer. An even more powerful particle

0:30.7

accelerator is on the drawing board and Stephen Hawking says we need a new planet.

0:35.2

I'm Tim Revel.

0:36.2

I'm Chris Smith and you're listening to The Naked Scientists.

0:39.6

The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk.

0:45.0

Now anyone who works a night shift or perhaps presents an early morning radio show or

0:56.2

travels across time zones knows exactly what jet lag is.

0:59.8

Your body wants to be awake or asleep at all the wrong times. Now the reason this happens

1:04.4

is because every cell in the body has a chemical clock ticking inside it and this is

1:08.9

used to link the metabolism of the cell to the demands of the day. You upset that rhythm and, well, you know the consequences.

1:17.0

The assemblage of clocks in the body all fall into step with the master clock that's in your brain.

1:22.0

But now scientists at the

1:23.4

University of Surrey have found that these so-called peripheral clocks are also

1:26.7

sensitive to other cues as well, like when you eat your dinner. And it might be

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