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Oct 2020
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Robin Hood, Flippy, and the web ad bubbl...

Graham Cluley & Carole Theriault
About this episode

The Darkside ransomware gang thinks it's a modern-day Robin Hood when it donates extorted Bitcoins to charity, the micro-targeted ad industry could pop like a bubble, and would you trust a burger-flipping robot?

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 Tim Hwang.


Plus don't miss our featured interview with Recorded Future's Levi Gundert.


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Theme tune: "Vinyl Memories" by Mikael Manvelyan.


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Special Guests: Levi Gundert and Tim Hwang.

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