Smashing Security podcast #409: Peeping perverts and FBI phone calls

In episode 409 of the “Smashing Security” podcast, we uncover the curious case of the Chinese cyber-attack on Littleton’s Electric Light Company, and a California landlord’s hidden camera scandal.

Find out about this, and more, in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.

Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and rude language.

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Graham Cluley:

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Carole Theriault:

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Episode links:

• This is the FBI, open up. China’s Volt Typhoon is on your network – The Register.
• Landlord recorded nude videos of woman tenant with cameras hidden in bedroom smoke detectors, lawsuit says – The Independent.
• Landlord arrested after tenant discovers hidden camera in rented room – PBSO.
• Hidden Cameras: What Travelers Need to Know – The New York Times.
• Shakespeare insults t-shirt – Royal Shakespeare Company.
• OAS Exhibitions – Oxford Art Society.
• Carole’s “Rusty Sage” – Bluesky.
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Theme tune: “Vinyl Memories” by Mikael Manvelyan.
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