4 • 645 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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0:00.0 | Tann, it's got the code it's going to launch. |
0:10.8 | It's a unit system. |
0:13.2 | I know this. |
0:15.1 | It's all the files of the whole park. |
0:17.3 | It tells her everything. |
0:19.0 | Sir, he's uploading the virus. |
0:21.8 | The Eagle one. |
0:22.6 | The package is being delivered. |
0:24.7 | What if I told you that your phone could be hacked for $16? |
0:28.7 | And all the texts that were meant for you were rerouted to someone else with nefarious designs in your most personal exchanges. |
0:36.2 | Well, it's a real thing, and it happened to motherboard reporter Joseph Cox, who's on the show |
0:40.9 | to explain. |
0:42.6 | In fact, we were recording another interview, and Joseph was being hacked in real time. |
0:47.4 | We start there on this week's episode. |
0:50.2 | I'm Ben Maku, and welcome to Cyber. |
1:09.4 | Thank you. I'm Ben Maku and welcome to cyber. Now, I'm actually, I've actually just turned on my recording. I'm literally being hacked right now, and that's why I'm actually just turned on my recording. |
1:11.6 | I'm literally being hacked right now, and that's why I was late. |
1:15.6 | What happened? |
1:16.6 | This researcher is just going through this relatively obscure technique for taking over phone numbers, |
1:23.6 | and he got into my Postmates account just now and I got a notification and let me just |
1:28.3 | check my text messages one second. Yep, I think he just got a text message from Lorenzo, which is |
1:36.3 | not going to my phone, it's going straight to the attackers phone. So yeah, this guy is now me. |
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