063: Carole's back!

Fitness trackers breaching your privacy, how anyone can create convincing celebrity porn, and how ransomware authors are getting ripped off by scammers.

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, who are joined this week by special guest Maria Varmazis.

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Special Guest: Maria Varmazis.

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• Reddit User Outperforms Disney with AI-Generated Princess Leia
• Fake News Is About to Get Even Scarier than You Ever Dreamed
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