Porn trolling lawyers, Insta hacking, and Ctrl-Alt-LED
Erection your honour! Lawyers find themselves behind bars after they make porn movies in an attempt to scam internet users, boffins in Israel detail a way to steal data from an air-gapped computer, and Instagram coughs up $30,000 after a researcher finds a simple way to hack into anybody's account.
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 Maria Varmazis.
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Special Guest: Maria Varmazis.
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Links:
- CTRL-ALT-LED: Leaking Data from Air-Gapped Computers Via Keyboard LEDs — IEEE.
- Academics steal data from air-gapped systems via a keyboard's LEDs — ZDNet.
- How I Could Have Hacked Any Instagram Account — The Zero Hack.
- How any Instagram account could be hacked in less than 10 minutes — Hot for Security.
- Takeru Kobayashi - hotdog-eating world record holder — Wikipedia.
- Smashing Security 092: Hacky sack hack hack.
- Porn pirating lawyer jailed for five years — BBC News.
- Stiff penalty: Prenda Law copyright troll gets 14 years of hard time for blue view 'n sue scam — The Register.
- Prenda Law boss John Steele to miss 2020 Olympics... unless they show it in prison — The Register.
- InspiroBot.
- What football will look like in the future — (Maria says don't try to read it on your smartphone)
- The Life Of A Rock.
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