Smashing Security podcast #010: The dolls must be destroyed

A creepy teddybear leaks two million voicemail messages, Windows 10 pushes you into only installing vetted apps, and Boeing warns 36,000 employees their personal information could have been exposed after a worker sends a spreadsheet to his wife.

All this and more is discussed by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley, Vanja Svajcer and Carole Theriault.

Show notes:

• Announcing the first SHA1 collision
• Tavis Ormandy: Cloudflare Reverse Proxies are Dumping Uninitialized Memory
• Incident report on memory leak caused by Cloudflare parser bug
• List of Sites possibly affected by Cloudflare’s #Cloudbleed HTTPS Traffic Leak
• Quantifying the impact of “CloudBleed”
• CloudPets commercial
• Data from connected CloudPets teddy bears leaked and ransomed, exposing kids’ voice messages
• Microsoft slaps Apple Gatekeeper-like controls on Windows 10: Install only apps from store
• Boeing Notifies 36,000 Employees Following Breach

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Graham Cluley is a veteran of the cybersecurity industry, having worked for a number of security companies since the early 1990s when he wrote the first ever version of Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows. Now an independent analyst, he regularly makes media appearances and is an international public speaker on the topic of cybersecurity, hackers, and online privacy. Follow him on Twitter, Mastodon, Bluesky, or drop him an email.