The right way to lose buddies and DDoS folks • Graham Cluley

When the mysterious operator of an web archiving-service determined to silence a curious Finnish blogger, they didn’t simply ship a stroppy electronic mail – they allegedly weaponised their very own CAPTCHA web page to launch a DDoS assault, threatened to invent a completely new style of AI porn, and tampered with elements of their very own archive to smear the blogger’s title.

On this episode, we unravel how an internet site designed to protect historical past could have trashed its personal credibility – and the way Wikipedia responded when belief went out the window.

Plus a ransomware gang shoots itself within the foot with a traditional case of buffoonery, by chance corrupting the very keys victims would want to decrypt their knowledge. When even the criminals can’t unlock your recordsdata, what occurs subsequent?

All this, a surprisingly zen Choose of the Week, and a gloriously splenetic rant towards net kinds, on episode 456 of the award-winning “Smashing Safety” podcast, with cybersecurity veteran Graham Cluley and particular visitor Paul Ducklin.

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