In a technique which no hacker has ever used before or since, the hackers were using default passwords that were listed in user manuals, The Hack that brought back the zombie apocalypse, with Graham Kluly and special guest Dan Raywood.

Hello, hello and welcome to Smashing Security episode 445. My name's Graham Kluly. And I'm Dan Raywood. Hello, hello and welcome to Smash Insecurity Episode 445. My name's Graham Clue Lee. And I'm Dan Raywood. Dan, welcome back to the show after many, many years you have joined us once again. Good to have you here. Yeah, it's good to be back. Seven years since I did my last appearance. Is it really? I look forward coming back. Yeah, yeah. 2018 it was. This sort of time, I think, Halloween-ish, October 2018. It's funny how I think of you come Halloween, isn't it? Almost a month's on now and I'm actually probably the ghost of Christmas past. I don't know. Okay, well, let's not leave it another seven years, certainly. But for those

people who don't know you, how can you describe what you are, why you're here, what you get up to? Well, in a couple of months, January the 8th, it'll be 25 years. It's like my first ever professional journalism job. So, oh my goodness. I've been a private party. It wasn't until 2008, going to write about cyber. So I've been doing cyber now for about 17 years. I've worked for a bunch of magazines, including NSEME magazine, Infociracy, dark reading. I've been an analyst, been a marketer. Now I work mainly for a great company called Bora, who do content creation, all sorts of really, really great clients really great clients. I'm also a bit of a freelance, hired gun on the side, do some speaking, do some moderating, and, uh, can I take a few podcasts appearances, which are really nice. Ah, well, it's fantastic to have you here today. Before we kick off, let's thank this week's wonderful sponsors, Vanta, Action One and Horizon 3 AI. We'll be hearing more about them

later on in the podcast. This week on Smashing Security. We won't be talking about how fake

adult websites are pushing a hyper-realistic but fake Windows update pop-up to install malware.

You'll hear no discussion of...

How are Japanese court has found cloud flare

liable for ignoring takedown requests

and a aiding and protecting a manga piracy site?

And we won't even mention.

How a former romantic partner of ex-Google chairman Eric Schmidt

has accused him of hacking her email and PC to spy on her and steal business secrets.

So Dan, what are you going to be talking about this week?

Well, I'm going to looking at how crowd strike that noted security vendor took action against a significant threat.

And I'm going to be speaking about how America's airwaves are under attack.

All this and much more coming up on this episode of Smashing Security.

Okay, before we go any further, I need to share a quick word with you about one of our sponsors

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