Wikileaks’s Julian Assange is a free man, deepfakes cause trouble in the playground, and we hear hot takes about ransomware and tales from inside a devastating denial-of-service attack.

All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Eleanor Dallaway.

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

Hosts:

Graham Cluley – @gcluley
Carole Theriault – @caroletheriault

Guest:

Eleanor Dallaway – @EleanorDallaway

Episode links:

• Julian Assange lands in Australia a free man – BBC News.
• Smashing Security episode 245: The Julian Assange assassination plot, and IoT toilets.
• Kidnapping, assassination and a London shoot-out: Inside the CIA’s secret war plans against WikiLeaks – Yahoo News.
• Surprise! WikiLeaks won’t just hand over details of zero-day vulnerabilities to tech firms – Graham Cluley.
• YouTube now lets you report AI deepfakes of yourself – MSN.
• Two private schools face police probe over claims pupils used AI to ‘create deepfake porn images of up to a dozen girls’ – Daily Mail. 
• We’re calling on the next government to protect women and girls from 
• image-based abuse – Glamour Magazine. 
• Deepfakes as a Security Issue: Why Gender Matters – WiisGlobal.
• AI poses disproportionate risks to women – Brookings.
• ‘Violating and dehumanising’: How AI deepfakes are being used to target women – Euronews.
• Snapshot Paper – Deepfakes and Audiovisual Disinformation – GOV.UK.
• Government cracks down on ‘deepfakes’ creation – GOV.UK.
• Je chie dans la seine.
• Paris Olympics Poop Protest Postponed After French Officials Refuse To Swim In Sewage Water – Brobible.
• ‘I’m not a cat’: lawyer gets stuck on Zoom kitten filter during court case – YouTube.
• Guy Goma: ‘Greatest’ case of mistaken identity on live TV ever? – BBC News on YouTube.
• ‘It’s just Bernie being Bernie’ — How a photo of Sanders wearing mittens at Inauguration Day went viral – CNBC News.
• HiKeep Hand Exercise Balls – Amazon.
• Smashing Security merchandise (t-shirts, mugs, stickers and stuff)

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Thanks:

Theme tune: “Vinyl Memories” by Mikael Manvelyan.
Assorted sound effects: AudioBlocks.

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