Smashing Security podcast #214: Lockdown love scams, SolarWinds, and a data deletion bungle

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Smashing Security podcast #214: Lockdown love scams, SolarWinds, and a data deletion bungle

Fingerprints and DNA records have been deleted from the UK’s police database, the SolarWinds hack continues to wreak havoc and raise questions, and we have some advice for how to fall in love safely under lockdown…

All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Professor Alan Woodward.

Smashing Security #214: 'Lockdown love scams, SolarWinds, and a data deletion bungle'

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Hosts:

Graham Cluley – @gcluley
Carole Theriault – @caroletheriault

Guest:

Alan Woodward – @ProfWoodward

Show notes:

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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.

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