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Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
The story of how hackers managed to compromise the US Government's official SEC Twitter account to boost the price of Bitcoins, AI isn't helping reduce the rife conspiracy theories inside classrooms, and is the funeral bell tolling for ransomware?
All this and more is discussed in episode 404 of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by special guest Jane Wakefield.
Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and rude language.
Episode links:
- SEC's Twitter account hacked to say Bitcoin ETFs approved - Hot for Security.
- Twitter says it’s not its fault the SEC’s account got hacked - Graham Cluley.
- SEC Twitter hack blamed on SIM swap attack - Hot for Security.
- The SEC’s X account got hacked by a 25-year-old who went by ‘AGiantSchnauzer’ and got paid in Bitcoin, feds say - Fortune.
- Pupils share conspiracy theories for fun, with girls ‘more susceptible’ - The Times.
- AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds - BBC News.
- US-led cybersecurity coalition vows to not pay hackers' ransom demands - TechCrunch.
- 35% Year-over-Year Decrease in Ransomware Payments, Less than Half of Recorded Incidents Resulted in Victim Payments - Chain Analysis.
- Ransomware: proposals to increase incident reporting and reduce payments to criminals - GOV.UK.
- The 2024 Ransomware Landscape: ‘Looking back on another painful year’ - IT Wire.
- The Space Doctor’s Big Idea by Randall Munroe - The New Yorker.
- Reading guide: Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner - Booker Prizes.
- Smashing Security merchandise (t-shirts, mugs, stickers and stuff)
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| 0:00.0 | You've heard it here for X. Graham loves the ransomware dudes. |
| 0:07.0 | He's on side. |
| 0:07.7 | He does seem to, doesn't he? He really does. |
| 0:10.4 | I'll put a very special link in the show notes this week, by the way. |
| 0:13.5 | If everyone who listens could click on it before installing their latest Microsoft security patch. |
| 0:18.3 | I'm not clicking on any links you send me from now on, Graham. |
| 0:20.9 | Hello, Hello and welcome. |
| 0:31.9 | Smashing Security, Episode 404. |
| 0:37.0 | Podcast Not Found with Carol Terrio and Graham Cluley. |
| 0:38.2 | Hello, hello and welcome to Smash Insecurity episode 404. |
| 0:42.8 | My name is Graham Cluley. |
| 0:45.1 | What a geek joke and I didn't even notice until you said it. |
| 0:48.2 | Podcasts not found. |
| 0:50.1 | I'm Carol Terrio. |
| 0:51.6 | And we're joined this week by a special guest returning to the show. It's my great pleasure to invite back on Jane Wakefield. Hello, Jane. I'm very honoured to be on the 404 episode. Yay. Now, Jane, you've been busy, haven't you? Because you've got this new podcast that's come out. I have, yes. So we're three episodes into a podcast called Scam Detectors, which, as the name suggests, is looking all at scams. |
| 1:13.8 | It's an interesting world, a terrifying world. |
| 1:16.8 | The point of it is to kind of educate people, to hear from people who have fallen. |
| 1:20.4 | I shouldn't use that phrase. |
| 1:21.5 | That's one phrase we shouldn't use, falling for, because one of the points of the podcast is to change the language around it so that we don't |
| 1:27.9 | see victims as being to blame for these things. Because as you probably know, these scammers are |
| 1:32.3 | so sophisticated that anyone these days can fall for a scam. I like that. I've never heard that |
| 1:37.6 | before. It's really interesting. It's a bit like people are now saying, we shouldn't say pig |
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