{"id":1631,"date":"2025-01-30T02:03:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T02:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/30\/smashing-security-podcast-402-hackers-get-hacked-the-british-museum-it-shutdown-and-social-media-kidnaps\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T02:03:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T02:03:22","slug":"smashing-security-podcast-402-hackers-get-hacked-the-british-museum-it-shutdown-and-social-media-kidnaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/30\/smashing-security-podcast-402-hackers-get-hacked-the-british-museum-it-shutdown-and-social-media-kidnaps\/","title":{"rendered":"Smashing Security podcast #402: Hackers get hacked, the British Museum IT shutdown, and social media kidnaps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Smashing Security podcast #402: Hackers get hacked, the British Museum IT shutdown, and social media kidnaps
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What happens when eager computer enthusiasts unknowingly download a trojanized hacking tool and find themselves on the wrong side of cybersecurity? A former employee’s actions led to chaos and raise urgent questions about the security of cultural treasures. And join us as we explore the alarming trend of social media influencers staging fake kidnappings.<\/p>\n

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 Lianne Potter from the “Compromising Positions” podcast.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Smashing Security podcast #402: Hackers get hacked, the British Museum IT shutdown, and social media kidnaps What happens when eager computer enthusiasts unknowingly download a trojanized hacking tool and find themselves on the wrong side of cybersecurity? A former employee’s actions led to chaos and raise urgent questions about the security of cultural treasures. And […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170,660,658,154,171,54,661,164,258,159,166,83,662,175,172,253],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-1631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blackberry","category-botnet","category-british-museum","category-data-loss","category-denial-of-service","category-grahamcluley","category-kidnap","category-law-order","category-malware","category-operating-systems","category-podcast","category-privacy","category-remote-access-trojan","category-smashing-security","category-social-networks","category-spyware","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}