Brits face empty shelves and suspended meal deals as cybercriminals hit major high street retailers, and a terminated Disney employee gets revenge with a little help with Wingdings. Plus Graham challenges Carole to a game of “Malware or metal?”, and we wonder just happens when you have sex on top of a piano?
All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.
Plus! Don’t miss our featured interview with Jon Cho of Dashlane.
Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and rude language.
Smashing Security #416:
High street hacks, and Disney's Wingdings woe
Hosts:
Graham Cluley:
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Episode links:
- Why is the M&S cyber attack chaos taking so long to resolve? – BBC News.
- M&S ‘had no plan’ for cyber attacks, insider claims, with ‘staff left sleeping in the office amid paranoia and chaos’ – Sky News.
- Hackers target the Co-op as police probe M&S cyber attack – BBC News.
- Harrods latest retailer to be hit by cyber attack – BBC News.
- Alleged ‘Scattered Spider’ Member Extradited to US – Krebs on Security.
- British ‘ringleader’ of hacking group ‘behind M&S cyber attack’ fled his home after ‘masked thugs burst in and threatened him with blowtorches’ – Daily Mail.
- Incidents impacting retailers – recommendations – NCSC.
- Ex-Disney employee gets 3 years in the clink for goofy attacks on mousey menus – The Register.
- United States of America V Michael Sheuer – Plea Agreement – US District Court PDF.
- The Tall Guy – IMDB.
- At 99, David Attenborough shares strongest message for the ocean – Oceanographic magazine.
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