Smashing Security podcast #063: Carole’s back!

Fitness trackers breaching your privacy, how anyone can create convincing celebrity porn, and how ransomware authors are getting ripped off by scammers.

All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, who are joined this week by special guest Maria Varmazis.

Hosts:

Graham Cluley – @gcluley
Carole Theriault – @caroletheriault

Guest:

Maria Varmazis – @mvarmazis

Show notes:

• Strava's Global Heatmap
• Nathan Ruser tweets about Strava's global heatmap
• Privacy of fitness tracking apps in the spotlight after soldiers' exercise routes shared online
• Thar she blows: Strava heat map shows folk on shipwreck packed with 1,500 tonnes of bombs
• Advanced Deanonymization through Strava
• Fake celebrity porn is blowing up on Reddit, thanks to artificial intelligence
• Reddit User Outperforms Disney with AI-Generated Princess Leia
• Fake News Is About to Get Even Scarier than You Ever Dreamed
• Josh Turner of The Other Favorites – YouTube
• The Levee by The Other Favorites – YouTube
• Blood on the Tracks by Bob Dylan
• United denies woman's attempt to bring peacock onto flight
• Dexter The Peacock on Instagram
• Reforestation Drones Can Plant 100K Trees In An Hour
• Smashing Security on Facebook
• Smashing Security merchandise (t-shirts, mugs, stickers and stuff)
• Support us on Patreon!

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Graham Cluley •   @gcluley

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, Threads, Bluesky, or drop him an email.