{"id":10942,"date":"2026-02-26T02:04:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/smashing-security-podcast-456-how-to-lose-friends-and-ddos-people\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T02:04:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:04:22","slug":"smashing-security-podcast-456-how-to-lose-friends-and-ddos-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/smashing-security-podcast-456-how-to-lose-friends-and-ddos-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Smashing Security podcast #456: How to lose friends and DDoS people"},"content":{"rendered":"

Smashing Security podcast #456: How to lose friends and DDoS people
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When the mysterious operator of an internet archiving-service decided to silence a curious Finnish blogger, they didn\u2019t just send a stroppy email – they allegedly weaponised their own CAPTCHA page to launch a DDoS attack, threatened to invent an entirely new genre of AI porn, and tampered with parts of their own archive to smear the blogger’s name.<\/p>\n

In this episode, we unravel how a website designed to preserve history may have trashed its own credibility – and how Wikipedia responded when trust went out the window.<\/p>\n

Plus a ransomware gang shoots itself in the foot with a classic case of buffoonery, accidentally corrupting the very keys victims would need to decrypt their data. When even the criminals can\u2019t unlock your files, what happens next?<\/p>\n

All this, a surprisingly zen Pick of the Week, and a gloriously splenetic rant against web forms, on episode 456 of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast, with cybersecurity veteran Graham Cluley and special guest Paul Ducklin.<\/p><\/div>\n

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