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episode 219: Cheerleaders, dating apps, and crisis PR
How are cheerleaders being creeped out by deepfakes? What might Tinder tell potential dates about your murky past? And how should companies respond to the press when a security breach occurs?
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 Yvonne Eskenzi.
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Special Guest: Yvonne Eskenzi.
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- Chris Farley makes an energetic entrance to the David Letterman show — YouTube.
- Cheer — Netflix.
- Bucks County woman created ‘deepfake’ videos to harass rivals on her daughter’s cheerleading squad, DA says — Philadelphia Inquirer.
- Cheerleader, 17, who appeared in 'deepfake' vaping video 'made by rival's mom' tells how she broke down in tears — The Sun.
- Oliver Reed on being deadly — YouTube.
- Deep Tom Cruise — TikTok.
- Deep Tom Cruise pretends to be a snapping turtle — TikTok.
- Deep Tom Cruise demonstrates his golf swing — TikTok.
- A Guide to Crisis Communications for Incident Response — Eskenzi PR.
- Tinder to introduce in-app background checks — BBC News.
- Garbo - A new kind of online background check.
- Match Group Partners with Garbo to Make Groundbreaking Background Check Technology Accessible To Users, Starting with Tinder — Press release.
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