How you can rip-off somebody in seven days • Graham Cluley

Romance scammers have apparently found astrology… and Taurus is their secret weapon.

In episode 449 of “Smashing Safety”, we have a look inside an precise romance-fraud handbook – full with scripts, persona “varieties”, company jargon, and a seven-day plan to get victims from hiya at hand over the crypto.

Then Lesley “hacks4pancakes” Carhart delivers a actuality test on the dire cybersecurity jobs marketplace for juniors: why entry-level roles are evaporating, how automated CV screening is chewing candidates up, and what hopeful newcomers (and weary veterans) can do about it.

Plus, Graham talks to ThreatLocker CEO Danny Jenkins about why misconfigurations are behind an uncomfortable variety of breaches, how default-deny safety truly works in apply, and why detecting assaults after they’ve began is already too late.

All this, and way more, on this episode of the “Smashing Safety” podcast with Graham Cluley, and particular visitor Lesley Carhart.

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Lesley Carhart:
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