Fleeking, COVID-19 hacking, and Bitcoin balls-ups

Smashing Security

Your privacy may be at risk if you're on Fleek, hackers not only steal COVID-19 vaccine data but then tamper with it to spread mistrust, and the Bitcoin bungles keep on coming...

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 Ron Eddings from the Hacker Valley Studio podcast.

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Theme tune: "Vinyl Memories" by Mikael Manvelyan.

Assorted sound effects: AudioBlocks.

Special Guest: Ron Eddings.

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Links:

• Report: X-Rated Social Media App Exposes Users in Massive Data Breach — VPNMentor.
• Hackers Leak Stolen Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Data — Threatpost.
• Hackers alter stolen regulatory data to sow mistrust in COVID-19 vaccine — Ars Technica.
• EU regulator: Hackers 'manipulated' stolen vaccine documents — AP News.
• Smashing Security 058: Face ID, Firefox, and Windows SNAFUs, plus Bitcoin FOMO
• Bitcoin FOMO Calculator.
• Smashing Security 167: Coronavirus scams and an exaggerated lion
• Man offers Newport council £50m if it helps find bitcoins in landfill — The Guardian.
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