Hacking hijinks at the hospital, and WASPI scams
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
He's not a pop star, but Jeffrey Bowie is alleged to have toured staff areas of a hospital in Oklahoma, hunting for computers he could install spyware on. We dive into the bizarre case of the man accused of hacking medical networks and then sharing how he did it on LinkedIn.
Plus! Move over Nigerian princes — the WASPI scams are here. Fraudsters are now targeting UK women born in the 1950s, exploiting pension injustice for phishing gain.
All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.
Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and rude language.
Episode links:
- Cybersecurity Firm CEO Charged with Installing Malware on a Hospital Computer - HIPAA Journal.
- Edmond cybersecurity CEO accused in major hack at hospital - YouTube.
- Jeffrey Bowie’s post on LinkedIn - Wayback Machine.
- Martin Lewis issues scam warning as fraudsters use him to target WASPI women - Metro News.
- ‘Waspi’ women warned over fake compensation websites - The Guardian.
- WASPI campaigners warn of "dangerous" spike in fake compensation scams - Financial Reporter.
- National Trust.
- Wallet Creator - iOS App Store.
- DIY Dubai chocolate: Ravneet Gill’s recipe for crunchy pistachio chocolate - The Guardian.
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| 0:00.0 | Was he like, what's it called, like a fake, like a decoy, like a decoy duck and they actually were doing something else? |
| 0:11.5 | I'm sorry, a decoy duck, a decoy duck. |
| 0:13.8 | Isn't it called a decoy? |
| 0:15.1 | Oh, the man who goes, quack, quack. Smashing Security, Episode 415, Hacking Hyjinks at the Hospital, and Warsby Scams with Carol Terrio and Graham Cluley. |
| 0:35.8 | Hello, hello and welcome to Smashing Security episode 415. My name is Graham Clooley. And I'm Carol Terrio and Graham Cluley. Hello, hello and welcome to Smash Insecurity Episode 415. My name is Graham Clooly. |
| 0:40.5 | And I'm Carol Terrio. Before we kick off, let's first thank this week's wonderful sponsors, |
| 0:46.5 | One Password, and Vanta. It's their support that help us give you this show for free. |
| 0:51.2 | Now, coming up on today's show, Graham, what do you got? |
| 0:53.8 | I'm going to be taking a look at some hospital hijinks. Ooh, coming up on today's show, Graham, what do you got? I'm going to be |
| 0:54.6 | taking a look at some hospital hijinks. Ooh, and I'm going to find out what's going on with |
| 1:00.1 | UK state pension payouts. All this and much more coming up on this episode of Smashing |
| 1:06.2 | Security. Okay, chums, chums, picture the scene if you can. St. Anthony Hospital in the city of Oklahoma. Oklahoma City, nurses are running around. Doctors are saving life, stat, stat. What? Is it a good episode of VR? |
| 1:24.8 | Exactly, exactly. That's what's going on. Give him more insulin. |
| 1:30.2 | There's one random man wandering around the halls. |
| 1:34.1 | He's poking around in staff-only areas. |
| 1:41.9 | He's trying to get into multiple offices until finally he stumbles upon two unguarded computers. |
| 1:42.6 | Okay. |
| 2:02.2 | And he's using these computers. And some staff go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what? You haven't got any business touching them. What are you doing? And our man's got a perfectly innocent explanation. He says, look, I've got a member of my family. They're undergoing surgery right now. I needed to use a computer urgently. I hope you don't mind that I was using this staff computer. |
| 2:07.1 | Yeah, that's pretty good social engineering there. I'm assuming this is a scam. I'm assuming this is a scam. Call me crazy. Well, what was he doing, you ask? What might he have been doing? |
| 2:12.5 | Well, don't ask me that. I'd be like he could be doing anything. Could just be playing mind sweeper, couldn't he? |
| 2:18.6 | But no, what he's actually doing is he's installing a little something onto the computer, |
| 2:22.8 | a tiny piece of software that secretly takes screenshots every 20 seconds and beams them off |
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