Huawei ban, MGM hack, and a contact-tracing cock-up

Smashing Security

Login chaos for England's contact tracing service, our drill-down on the Britain's Huawei 5G ban, MGM's blockbuster breach, and how to pronounce "Gigabyte."

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 Maria Varmazis.

Plus we have a bonus featured interview with Scott Petry, the co-founder of Authentic8, all about how you can browse the internet safely, securely, and anonymously when conducting research, collecting sensitive evidence, and analyzing data.

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Special Guests: Maria Varmazis and Scott Petry.

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Links:

• Coronavirus: Contact tracers in England 'locked out of accounts' — Sky News.
• TalkTalk’s ex-CEO Dido Harding heads up the UK’s Coronavirus tracing app… — Graham Cluley.
• Apparently Coronavirus-tracing scammers won’t sound professional… (Yeah, right!) — Graham Cluley.
• Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027 — BBC News.
• US sanctions make Huawei more of a security risk, says leaked UK report — The Verge.
• A different future for telecoms in the UK — NCSC.
• Commerce Addresses Huawei’s Efforts to Undermine Entity List, Restricts Products Designed and Produced with U.S. Technologies — U.S. Department of Commerce.
• A hacker is selling details of 142 million MGM hotel guests on the dark web — ZDNet.
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• How do you pronounce "Gigawatt"? — Waldo Jaquith on Twitter.
• Metric (SI) Prefixes — NIST.
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• In the No Part 1 — Radiolab.
• 21 OSINT Tools for Cyber Threat Intelligence — Authentic8.
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