Smashing Security Oops, we created Iran's hacking exploit
Mac users of the Zoom video conferencing app are warned their webcams could be hijacked, security firms warn of how scammers are deepfaking audio to steal from businesses, and our guest owns up to the role he played in an Iranian cyberattack against US organisations.
All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Charl van der Walt.
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Theme tune: "Vinyl Memories" by Mikael Manvelyan.
Assorted sound effects: AudioBlocks.
Special Guest: Charl van der Walt.
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Links:
- Zoom Zero Day: 4+ Million Webcams & maybe an RCE? Just get them to visit your website!
- Zoom Mac flaw allows webcams to be hijacked - because they wanted to save you a click — Graham Cluley.
- USCYBERCOM Malware Alert on Twitter.
- CISA Statement on Iranian Cybersecurity Threats — Department of Homeland Security.
- Patch for Microsoft Outlook security vulnerability.
- U.S. Military Warns Outlook Users To Update Immediately Over Hack Linked To Iran — Forbes.
- U.S. Cyber Command Shares Malware via VirusTotal — SecurityWeek.
- Steve Buscemi Swapped On Jennifer Lawrence — YouTube.
- Fake voices 'help cyber-crooks steal cash' — BBC News.
- New AI deepfake app creates nude images of women in seconds — The Verge.
- Horrifying DeepNude App Undresses a Photo of Any Woman With a Single Click — Motherboard.
- Learn how to spot deepfake videos — Slate.
- 507 Mechanical Movements.
- ‘Born a Crime,’ Trevor Noah’s Raw Account of Life Under Apartheid — The New York Times.
- The global tree restoration potential — Science.
- How to erase 100 years of carbon emissions? Plant trees—lots of them — National Geographic.
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