049: Hacking funeral homes, crypto mining websites, and careful with that hairspray
Smashing Security - En podkast av Graham Cluley & Carole Theriault - Torsdager
Scammers show a lack of imagination after hacking a funeral home, more websites are secretly stealing visitors' resources to mine for cryptocurrency, and everyone is very confused about the USA's airline laptop ban. 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 The Register's John Leyden. Follow the show on Twitter at @SmashinSecurity, or visit our website for more episodes. Remember: Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app, to catch all of the episodes as they go live. Thanks for listening! Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and rude language.Special Guest: John Leyden.Sponsored By:Enterskekt: Entersekt develops authentication and mobile security solutions that make the internet a safer place to bank and shop. Join Entersekt's webinar which promises to tell you EVERYTHING you need to know about "The secret key to PSD2 compliance" by visiting https://www.smashingsecurity.com/entersektNetSparker: NetSparker is a web application security scanner that can automatically find security flaws in your website and fix them before hackers can exploit them. If you want to automatically check your web applications for cross site scripting, SQL Injection & other vulnerabilities and coding errors that can leave you and your business exposed to malicious hacker attacks, then you need NetSparker. Download a free demo now. Support Smashing SecurityLinks:Local funeral home gets hacked in the middle of the night leaving employees without accessLocal business' Yahoo! account hackedSmashing Security: 014: Protecting webmailStealth web crypto-cash miner Coin Hive back to the drawing board as blockers move in - The RegisterCryptocurrency mining affects over 500 million people. And they have no idea it is happening.Laptops and tablets have been banned from being used on 56 routes to the US
