A Hacking Group Has Been Cat Fishing Targets in Israel

Pulchritudinous women with glossy long hair are targeting Israeli officials via Facebook - but why? Scammers have found a new way to gain access to your most sensitive information - but how? And armchair detectives are helping investigating cold cases involving DNA - but should they?

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.

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Theme tune: "Vinyl Memories" by Mikael Manvelyan.

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Special Guest: Maria Varmazis.

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Links:

• How Barbie's body size would look in real life — Daily Mail.
• Operation Bearded Barbie: APT-C-23 Campaign Targeting Israeli Officials — Cybereason.
• Hackers Gaining Power of Subpoena Via Fake “Emergency Data Requests” — Brian Krebs.
• What we know about the increase in U.S. murders in 2020 — Pew Research Center.
• The History of DNA: From Crime Scenes to Consumer Goods — University of West Florida.
• How an Unlikely Family History Website Transformed Cold Case Investigations — The New York Times.
• DNA Databases Are Boon to Police But Menace to Privacy, Critics Say — PEW.
• Philanthropists Push Police Searches of DNA Databases — The New York Times.
• Help solve crimes with your DNA — DNASolves.
• Hackers Attacked Two Leading Genetic Genealogy Websites — BuzzFeed.
• How to Pronounce Moët & Chandon? And WHY?! — YouTube.
• How to Pronounce Wednesday? (CORRECTLY) — YouTube.
• Julien Miquel on YouTube.
• Support Maria Varmazis as she raises money for Cancer Research — Pan-Mass Challenge.
• The House (2022 film) — Wikipedia.
• The House — Netflix.
• Smashing Security merchandise (t-shirts, mugs, stickers and stuff)