Find out how 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 e-mail – they allegedly weaponised their very own CAPTCHA web page to launch a DDoS assault, threatened to invent a wholly 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 a web site designed to protect historical past might 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, unintentionally corrupting the very keys victims would want to decrypt their information. When even the criminals can’t unlock your information, what occurs subsequent?

All this, a surprisingly zen Choose of the Week, and a gloriously splenetic rant in opposition to internet varieties, on episode 456 of the award-winning “Smashing Safety” podcast, with cybersecurity veteran and keynote speaker Graham Cluley and particular visitor Paul Ducklin.

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