Testing times, naming names, and the bald truth about AI
Students are being spied on as they do online exams, how did a televised football match reveal the truth about artificial intelligence, and what on earth is the Canny Lumpsucker vulnerability?
All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Thom Langford from The Host Unknown podcast.
Plus don't miss the second part of our featured interview with LastPass's Dalia Hamzeh.
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Theme tune: "Vinyl Memories" by Mikael Manvelyan.
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Special Guests: Dalia Hamzeh and Thom Langford.
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Links:
- Vulnonym: Stop the Naming Madness! — Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute.
- Vulnonym — A bot generating names for CVE IDs.
- Thrangrycat — Not better known as 😾😾😾.
- Soccer match ruined when AI-controlled camera mistakes ref’s bald head for ball — SB Nation.
- Students Are Rebelling Against Eye-Tracking Exam Surveillance Tools — Motherboard.
- Proctorio sues UBC staff member for tweets sharing ‘confidential’ information about the software — The Ubyssey.
- ProctorU confirms data breach after database leaked online — Bleeping Computer.
- Proctorio CEO releases student’s chat logs, sparking renewed privacy concerns — The Ubyssey.
- Some news about proctoring at the University of Calgary — Reddit.
- My wife has proctored (webcam monitored) online classes. We live in a studio apartment, so I’m relegated to the bathroom. Rate my setup. — Reddit.
- How Many Potatoes Does It Take To Run DOOM? — YouTube.
- Raspberry Pi 400: the $70 desktop PC.
- Raspberry Pi 400: New All-in-One Pi! — YouTube.
- All Tilted Room Sketches — Shaun Micallef on YouTube.
- The Goes Wrong Show - Series 1: 6. 90 Degrees — BBC iPlayer.
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