Huge huge thanks to everyone who voted for "Smashing Security" as the best #podcast for making cybersecurity accessible for all! 🏆
Carole Theriault and I are delighted to have our humble little pod recognised in this way.
If you haven't tried out "Smashing Security" yet, we've been going over seven years - week in, week out - covering the weird and wonderful world of cybersecurity with (hopefully) a sense of humour.
@bazcurtis Seeing as @ThomLangford has been holding the two awards "Smashing Security" won last year hostage for the last 12 months, I think we can cope...
@gcluley Hi Graham, if I recall correctly, in last week's ep of #SmashinSecurity you mentioned about some websites blocking the ability to paste log-in credentials.
This really is a pain and terrible if you use long, complex passwords.
So I just use 'pasword123' everywhere.
Also, if your password manager has a function to auto-type creds (rather than copy/paste), this tends to work in those websites. For example, #keepassxc works fine in such cases.
@upyesp Ah... good to know. Could you tell me which websites are the ones you've found that don't accept the pasting in of passwords, so you just use "password123" instead? :)
I've given over 300 talks at events across Europe, America, Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Australia, but somehow have never got around to making a showreel. Here you go then.
@gcluley@smashingsecurity it seems like something dodgy has happened to the feed. I’ve just had episode 343, 360 something and 370 all appear at once as May 7th then they disappeared again. Not sure if the feed is to blame or my Podcast app.
Kicking up a stink about Amazon's failure to deliver a £700 iPhone to me (and then refusing to refund/replace) has - I'm delighted to say - resulted in the money being returned to me today. 🥳
What I've learnt:
★ Exploiting social media and video to complain can get the attention of AmazonUK's PR team
☆ What happened to the iPhone
☆ Why Amazon insisted it had been "handed to resident" when it hadn't
☆ If Amazon got a signature upon "delivery" (as they claimed they would) (and, if so, who from?)
☆ Why Amazon's customer service team wasn't able to properly handle the issue, but preferred to tell me it wouldn't respond to future emails from me and considered the matter closed.
Thanks to everyone who shared my issue and helped Amazon see sense.