Episode 267 of the Transatlantic Cable kicks off with the slightly concerning news that Facebook engineers (apparently) don\u2019t know what happens to your data inside Facebook. After that rather worrying story, the team move over to discussing an intriguing story looking at boffins from the National University of Singapore and Yonsei University, who have found a way to detect if your laptop is secretly recording you, all via electromagnetic waves.<\/p>\n
Moving on, the team shift focus to discuss a recent spat of gym thefts in London \u2013 now, hang on, I hear you cry \u2013 what has this got to do with cybersecurity? Well, it turns out that the perpetrator is using a very unusual \u2018hack\u2019 in order to allow themselves access to victims\u2019 bank accounts. We won\u2019t spoil the details here, but it\u2019s all tied to your mobile phone (hint: make sure you lock down your phone when you\u2019re not near it).<\/p>\n
To wrap up, the podcast closes with a story around a recent recovery of some $30M USD from the recent Axie Infinity hack. Now, whilst that\u2019s a good thing, considering Lazarus managed to swipe nearly $600M USD, it does somewhat seem like a drop in the ocean.<\/p>\n
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