Zoom password pinching and Parler problems

Watch out for a whole different type of shoulder-surfing, researchers uncover the CostaRicto hackers-for-hire gang, and we take a peek at who is behind Parler.

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 Chris Cochran from the Hacker Valley Studio podcast.

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• Hackers could now know what people type on Zoom video call by evaluating the shoulder movement of users — Digital Information World.
• Zoom on the Keystrokes: Exploiting Video Calls for Keystroke Inference Attacks — Cornell University.
• The CostaRicto Campaign: Cyber-Espionage Outsourced — BlackBerry.
• New stealthy hacker-for-hire group mimics state-backed attackers — Bleeping Computer.
• The conservative alternative to Twitter wants to be a place for free speech for all. It turns out, rules still apply — Washington Post.
• Parler: what you need to know about the 'free speech' Twitter alternative — The Conversation.
• What If Cambridge Analytica Owned Its Own Social Network? CA Backer Rebekah Mercer Admits She's A Co-Founder Of Parler — Techdirt.
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