Smashing Security podcast #300: Interplanetary file systems, iSpoof, and don’t delete Twitter

Why deleting your Twitter account may be a very bad idea, how the police unravelled the iSpoof fraud gang, and a trip into outer space (or at least interplanetary file systems).

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 original show co-host Vanja Švajcer.

What an amazing 6 years of bickering it has been… thanks to all of you who have tuned in, appeared on the show, or supported us! 🙏

Hosts:

Graham Cluley – @gcluley
Carole Theriault – @caroletheriault

Guest:

Vanja Svajcer – @vanjasvajcer

Episode links:

• Smashing Security #001: “One cup, two hotel guests” – YouTube.
• Whoopi Goldberg Quitting Twitter: “As Of Tonight I’m Done” – Deadline.
• Stephen Fry Joins Celebrity Twitter Exodus, Says “Goodbye” With Scrabble Message – Deadline.
• Twitter Users Warned Not To Delete Their Accounts – Here’s Why – Forbes
• How to deactivate your account – Twitter.
• InterPlanetary File System – Wikipedia.
• Cyber Criminal Adoption of IPFS for Phishing, Malware Campaigns – Cisco Talos.
• Decentralized IPFS networks forming the ‘hotbed of phishing’ – The Register.
• UK police arrest 120 in largest-ever cyber fraud crackdown – Computer Weekly. 
• Grote spoofingdienst uit de lucht gehaald door internationale samenwerking – Politie.nl.
• Received a text from the Metropolitan Police about iSpoof? – Cel solicitors.
• iSpoof’ service dismantled, main operator and 145 users arrested – Bleeping Computer.
• iSpoof: What is iSpoof and how did police take down scam call site linked to 200,000 victims? – The Scotman.
• Listen to the message the Met Police left on the iSpoof gang’s Telegram channel – Twitter.
• Scrotum Concealment – Spy Museum.
• The CIA’s Fake Scrotum That Hid a Radio – YouTube.
• Blitzed! (2020) – IMDB.
• Watch Blitzed: The 80s Blitz Kids Story–  NOW TV.
• Bob Dylan on the Songs That Captivate and Define Us – New York Times. 
• Bob Dylan Gets Tangled Up in Book Autograph Controversy– New York Times. 
• Bob Dylan apologises for machine-printed ‘signatures’ – BBC News.
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Graham Cluley •   @gcluley

Graham Cluley is an award-winning keynote speaker who has given presentations around the world about cybersecurity, hackers, and online privacy. A veteran of the computer security industry since the early 1990s, he wrote the first ever version of Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows, makes regular media appearances, and is the co-host of the popular "Smashing Security" podcast. Follow him on Twitter, Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, or drop him an email.