082: World Cup cybersecurity, crypto crashes, and a bang of a password fail

Coinrail cryptocurrency exchange goes offline after hack, Russia appears to be 'live testing' cyber attacks, and Florida stopped running background checks on gun buyers because of forgotten password.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 The Register's football-mad John Leyden.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: John Leyden.Sponsored By:VirusTotal: VirusTotal Intelligence is one of the world’s largest malware intelligence services. Security professionals rely on it to better understand the effects of malware in enterprise networks.Find out more at https://www.virustotal.com/learnSupport Smashing SecurityLinks:Bitcoin price takes a dive after another cryptocurrency exchange hackMikko Hypponen on Twitter explains why cryptocurrency exchanges get hacked$1m by 2020: John McAfee will still ‘eat his own d*ck’ if he’s wrong about Bitcoin2018 FIFA World Cup RussiaRussia appears to be 'live testing' cyber attacks - Former UK spy boss Robert HanniganFrench TV network taken off air after attack by pro-ISIS hackersTV5Monde attack proves hacking attribution is very difficultTV station exposé its own passwords on l'air. A Franglais reportVPNFilter botnet has hacked 500,000 routers....

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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