No security smarts at Mensa, long-term identity theft, and GameStop's share frenzy

Mensa - the social club for people with high IQs - is accused of not being so smart about security, an Indian TV journalist gets an unbelievable job offer from Harvard, and we take a look at what's being going on with GameStop short selling.

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 Mark Stockley.

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Links:

• Two British Mensa directors quit over cyber security concerns — Financial Times.
• Mensa Website Hacked After Britain’s Smartest Folk Failed To Secure Passwords — Forbes.
• Poor password security at the British branch of Mensa? — Graham Cluley.
• I Am Nidhi Razdan, Not A Harvard Professor, But... — NDTV.
• GameStop stock price — MarketWatch.
• GameStop: What is it and why is it trending? — BBC News.
• An uprising against Wall Street? Hardly. GameStop was about the absurdity of the stock market — The Guardian.
• GameStop short squeeze fuels new stock-market services tracking Reddit messages — MarketWatch.
• The Basics of Shorting Stock — The Balance.
• The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty — BBC iPlayer.
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