A GCHQ intern forgets the golden rule of spy school — don’t take the secrets home with you — and finds himself swapping Cheltenham for a cell. Meanwhile, an Australian hacker flies too close to the sun, hacks his way into a US indictment, and somehow walks free... only to get booted back Down Under.
Plus: flow states, Bob Mortimer, and the joys of pretending to carry an owl around on a cushion.
All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.
Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and rude language.
Episode links:
- The Cheltenham Doughnut - Wikipedia.
- Summer placements - GCHQ.
- Spy school dropout: GCHQ intern jailed for swiping classified data - The Register.
- Former GCHQ intern jailed for taking top secret files home - Crown Prosecution Service.
- United States government says it will deport Australian hacker David Kee Crees - ABC News.
- Australian national known as “DR32” sentenced in U.S. federal court – DataBreaches.
- ICE takes steps to deport the Australian hacker known as “DR32” – DataBreaches.
- Aussie Travel Cover has hundreds of thousands of records stolen in hacking, policy holders not informed - ABC News.
- Australian cybercriminal to be deported from US - Information Age.
- Government sites hit by Aussie Travel Cover hacker - ZDNET.
- Abdilo, Australia-based computer hacker, live streams attack on US education sites - ABC News.
- Bob Mortimer's Pet Owl - YouTube.
- And Away… by Bob Mortimer - Simon & Schuster.
- Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihaly - HarperCollins.
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