High street hacks, and Disney's Wingdings woe
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Brits face empty shelves and suspended meal deals as cybercriminals hit major high street retailers, and a terminated Disney employee gets revenge with a little help with Wingdings. Plus Graham challenges Carole to a game of "Malware or metal?", and we wonder just happens when you have sex on top of a piano?
All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.
Plus! Don't miss our featured interview with Jon Cho of Dashlane.
Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and rude language.
Episode links:
- Why is the M&S cyber attack chaos taking so long to resolve? - BBC News.
- M&S 'had no plan' for cyber attacks, insider claims, with 'staff left sleeping in the office amid paranoia and chaos' - Sky News.
- Hackers target the Co-op as police probe M&S cyber attack - BBC News.
- Harrods latest retailer to be hit by cyber attack - BBC News.
- Alleged ‘Scattered Spider’ Member Extradited to US - Krebs on Security.
- British 'ringleader' of hacking group 'behind M&S cyber attack' fled his home after 'masked thugs burst in and threatened him with blowtorches' - Daily Mail.
- Incidents impacting retailers – recommendations - NCSC.
- Ex-Disney employee gets 3 years in the clink for goofy attacks on mousey menus - The Register.
- United States of America V Michael Sheuer - Plea Agreement - US District Court PDF.
- The Tall Guy - IMDB.
- At 99, David Attenborough shares strongest message for the ocean - Oceanographic magazine.
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| 0:00.0 | These names of these ransomware gangs. |
| 0:06.3 | Sometimes it's hard to know. |
| 0:08.1 | Is it a ransomware gang or is it some sort of Eurovision death metal group? |
| 0:30.8 | Smashing Security, Episode 416, High Street Hacks, and Disney's Winding Swo, with Carol Terrio and Graham Cluley. |
| 0:35.9 | Hello, hello and welcome to Smashing Security episode 416. My name's Graham Clule. |
| 0:40.1 | And I'm Carol Terrio? What's coming up on the show this week, |
| 0:46.9 | Krul? Well, before we kick off, let's thank this week's wonderful sponsors, Dashlane, Material, |
| 0:53.1 | and Vanta. It's their support that help us give you this show for free. Now coming up on today's show, |
| 0:55.7 | Graham, what do you got? I'm taking a walk down the high street looking for hackers. Okay, and I'm heading to Disney to find out what happens |
| 1:03.6 | if you get terminated. And I'm speaking to the folks at Dashlane all about the impact AI is having |
| 1:09.5 | on password security and how its new AI powered Omnix service is helping security teams. |
| 1:15.8 | All this and much more coming up on this episode of Smashing Security. |
| 1:22.9 | Now, chums, chums, I don't know if you noticed, Cybersecurity Awareness Month has come early this year. |
| 1:30.0 | Is it? |
| 1:30.5 | Yeah, normally it's in October, but it turns out it's right now, Kroll, at least for British retailers. |
| 1:36.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:37.6 | Because there's been a bit of a revelation that some of the country's most well-known stores have been hit by cybercriminals. |
| 1:46.6 | Can I admit something? I have been doing this big art show thing, and I've literally read |
| 1:51.0 | only the headlines and all this, and I know no details, so I'm so glad you're covering this. |
| 1:56.5 | Ah, well, maybe I will be able to shed some light on the latest developments here because first up, we had Marks and Spencer. |
| 2:03.9 | Everyone loves Marks and Spencer. It's the place where your grand goes to buy her knickers. It's where Kroll. |
| 2:09.6 | Buy my jam-filled donuts from the bakery. Delicious. Is that right? Oh, they're the best. They're the best ones in all the supermarkets. |
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