Smashing Security podcast #288: Chiquita banana, dumb criminals, and detecting ring binders

Students learn a valuable lesson when it comes to AI detecting guns on campus, SIM swappers are surprisingly stupid, and romance scammers get scammed by someone (or some thing?) calling themselves Chiquita Banana.

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 Mark Stockley.

Hosts:

Graham Cluley – @gcluley
Carole Theriault – @caroletheriault

Guest:

Mark Stockley – @markstockley

Episode links:

• ‘The least safe day’: rollout of gun-detecting AI scanners in schools has been a ‘cluster,’ emails show – Motherboard.
• Gun detection AI the latest tech to make schools less safe – TechDirt.
• The unproven, invasive surveillance technology schools are using to monitor students – ProPublica.
• NYC Mayor considering a subway security system that can’t differentiate between a laptop and a handgun – Motherboard.
• Violence-as-a-Service: Brickings, Firebombings & Shootings for Hire – Brian Krebs.
• USA vs Patrick McGovern-Allen (PDF) – Court Listener.
• Reports of romance scams hit record highs in 2021 – FTC.
• Meeting you was a fake: Investigating the increase in romance fraud during COVID-19 – Academic Research.
• This dating app fought scammers with bots… hilarity ensued – TechCrunch.
• She was 69. He Was Young, Hunky,,, and a Fraud – The Daily Beast.
• Gladbeck: The Hostage Crisis trailer  – YouTube.
• Watch Gladbeck: The Hostage Crisis – Netflix.
• We flooded our dating app with bots… to scam scammers  – Medium.
• Craiyon.
• Carole’s attempt to ask Craiyon to draw Liz Truss eating a giant cupcake of Europe.
• Is this Graham eating a banana?  Crayon seems to think so.
• Smashing Security merchandise (t-shirts, mugs, stickers and stuff)
  

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Theme tune: “Vinyl Memories” by Mikael Manvelyan.
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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.