Peeping perverts and FBI phone calls
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In episode 409 of the "Smashing Security" podcast, we uncover the curious case of the Chinese cyber-attack on Littleton's Electric Light Company, and a California landlord's hidden camera scandal.
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:
- This is the FBI, open up. China's Volt Typhoon is on your network - The Register.
- Landlord recorded nude videos of woman tenant with cameras hidden in bedroom smoke detectors, lawsuit says - The Independent.
- Landlord arrested after tenant discovers hidden camera in rented room - PBSO.
- Hidden Cameras: What Travelers Need to Know - The New York Times.
- Shakespeare insults t-shirt - Royal Shakespeare Company.
- OAS Exhibitions - Oxford Art Society.
- Carole’s “Rusty Sage” - Bluesky.
- Smashing Security merchandise (t-shirts, mugs, stickers and stuff)
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, if I were Nick, I'd be like, oh yeah, really? |
| 0:07.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:07.6 | FBI? |
| 0:08.7 | Scambi. |
| 0:10.0 | Goodbye. |
| 0:10.9 | That's what I went to. |
| 0:16.0 | Smashing Security, episode 4909. Peeping Perverts and FBI phone calls, with Carol Terrio and Graham Cluley. |
| 0:29.3 | Hello, hello, and welcome to Smashing Security episode 409. My name's Graham Cluley. |
| 0:33.6 | And I'm Carol Terrio. |
| 0:35.4 | Hello, Carol, here we are back again for another show. I know. No guests this week again. We're going to have to get a guest in soon, aren't we, I think? We definitely will, but not this week, because I'm sick. Graham, I'm sick. Oh, what's wrong? What's wrong? I have a flu. So if my voice is all scratchy, just know that I'm being a soldier, not skipping a week. |
| 0:54.9 | Oh. |
| 0:56.0 | You know what I think? We should kick the show off. But first, let's thank this week's wonderful |
| 1:00.1 | sponsors, Vanta, Drata and Akronix. It's their support that help us give you this show for free. |
| 1:06.8 | Now, coming up on today's show, Graham, what do you got? |
| 1:09.3 | I'm going to be talking about a lurking horror of hackers. |
| 1:12.4 | Ooh, and I'm talking about short-let nightmares coming back to haunt you, a scary episode. |
| 1:19.1 | All this and much more coming up on this episode of Smashing Security. |
| 1:27.3 | Now, chums, chums. Actually, specifically, you, Carol, have you ever hidden somewhere for a long time? |
| 1:34.4 | Um, not by choice. Maybe when you were a kid, did you hide in a cupboard under the stairs? |
| 1:40.7 | Funny, you should say cupboard. My brothers both locked me in. |
| 1:45.1 | I don't know how tricked me into getting into this toy box we had in the basement of our house. |
| 1:50.0 | Right. |
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