024: Reality Winner, Gordon Ramsay and a leaky bucket

Evidence of Russia hacking the US election leaks from the NSA and Reality is not a winner, confidential data is accidentally exposed in the cloud by a defence contractor, and Gordon Ramsay has a few choice words for his hacking father-in-law. All this and 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 special guest Ian Whalley. Follow the show on Twitter at @SmashinSecurity, or visit our website for more episodes. Remember: Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app, to catch all of the episodes as they go live. Thanks for listening! Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and rude language.Special Guest: Ian Whalley.Sponsored By:iovation: iovation is offering Smashing Security listeners a free demonstration of its mobile multifactor solution product, LaunchKey, which can be built into your mobile apps, websites and online services to provide a simple, streamlined remote login function.Support Smashing SecurityLinks:The classic era Smashing Security team... reunited at Infosec — Graham and Carole bumped into someone called Vanja Svajcer at the Infosec show in London, and couldn't resist getting a selfie.Top-Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election — The Intercept report which kicked everything off.Affidavit in support of application for Reality Winner's arrest warrant — Read the PDF for yourself.How The Intercept might have helped unmasked Reality Winner to the NSA — David Bisson writes on grahamcluley.com.How The Intercept Outed Reality Winner — Robert Graham's blog post about the really rather hard-to-see little yellow dots.Defense contractor stored intelligence data in Amazon cloud unprotected — Booz Allen Hamilton engineer posted geospatial intelligence to Amazon S3 bucket.Gordon Ramsay's father-in-law jailed over hacking plot — BBC News Online.

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A helpful and hilarious take on the week's tech SNAFUs. Computer security industry veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault chat with guests about cybercrime, hacking, and online privacy. It's not your typical cybersecurity podcast... Winner of the best and most entertaining cybersecurity podcast awards in 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, and 2024, Smashing Security has had over ten million downloads. Past guests include Garry Kasparov, Mikko Hyppönen, and Rory Cellan-Jones. Follow the podcast on Twitter at @smashinsecurity, and subscribe for free in your favourite podcast app. New episodes released at 7pm EST every Wednesday (midnight UK).This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy