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Crypto hacker hijinks, government spyware, and Utah social media shocker • Graham Cluley

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Smashing Security podcast #315: Crypto hacker hijinks, government spyware, and Utah social media shocker

A cryptocurrency hack leads us down a mazze of twisty little passages, Joe Biden’s commercial spyware bill, and Utah gets tough on social media sites.

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 The Register’s Iain Thomson.

Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and rude language.

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Graham Cluley – @gcluley
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Iain Thomson – @iainthomson

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Graham Cluley is a veteran of the anti-virus industry having worked for a number of security companies since the early 1990s when he wrote the first ever version of Dr Solomon’s Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows. Now an independent security analyst, he regularly makes media appearances and is an international public speaker on the topic of computer security, hackers, and online privacy.
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Utah’s Crime-Busting Subscription-based Mobile Security System Is Going Global

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Utah dad wanted Hoosick Falls couple killed to stop contact

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ALBANY — Christopher Pence’s story sounded like reality television.

A Microsoft internet security engineer, Pence and his wife lived in a huge home on a 20-acre property in a desolate area of Utah — with 16 children.

But in October, Pence’s story became more like an Alfred Hitchcock movie. That’s when the dad with no prior criminal history was charged in U.S. District Court in Albany with trawling the dark web to arrange the murder-for-hire of a Hoosick Falls couple who are the biological parents of five of Pence’s children. 

On Friday, at a hearing to determine whether Pence, 41, should remain jailed as he awaits trial, a prosecutor quoted Pence’s chilling words to an administrator on the dark web. That’s where Pence allegedly tried to pay a killer $16,000 in Bitcoin cryptocurrency to handle the murder.

“Good day Admin!” Pence said in the July 20, 2021, message, which was read aloud in court by Assistant U.S. Attorney Emmet O’Hanlon. “I have a couple targets, husband wife, that I am needing removed. However, it is known that they and I dont quite see eye-to-eye on something.

 “I am a couple days away from submitting the job as an accident, but before I do, I was wondering, in your experience, even if it is an obvious accident, what kind of investigation will be ran against me, knowing that we are not on the best of terms?” Pence allegedly said.   “I have the $$ in CoinBase, but is there something I can do, to help obfuscate my role in this?  Will agencies be looking into my CoinBase history? Thank you in advance!”

The prosecutor said Pence made it clear he wanted the couple killed but not anyone else.  

“They most likely will have 3 children in the car with them… I am really trying to avoid them from being hurt,” Pence allegedly stated. “I’m wondering if a mugging-gone-wrong might be an option.  Or maybe you have another suggestion?  ….They currently live in NY.Thank you for your quick response.”

 As the prosecutor spoke, Pence’s relatives, including his wife, father and two young children, listened in the first-floor…

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Utah Says No to Apple/Google COVID-19 Tracing; Debuts Startup App

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“Healthy Together” app uses a raft of location data, including GPS, cell tower triangulation and Bluetooth, to pinpoint users and ID coronavirus hotspots.
Mobile Security – Threatpost