With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin.
DOUG AAMOTH. Tech scams, bad guys arrested, and 2FA – what could possibly go wrong?
All that, and more, on the Naked Security Podcast.
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Welcome to the podcast, everybody.
I am Doug; he be Paul…
…and Paul, I’m going to be the first to wish you happy tax scam season, my friend.
PAUL DUCKLIN. Oh, dear.
I guess it’s particularly relevant to the US just right now, isn’t it?
DOUG. Yes: we are girding our financial loins, collectively getting ready to file our taxes.
DUCK. Of course, any time of the year kind of works for a tax scam, doesn’t it?
If you’re in the UK, the tax year is April to March; South Africa, it’s March to February; Australia it’s July to June.
So everywhere there’s *something* going on.
But in the US, it probably fits in quite well now – so do be on the alert!
DOUG. Yes: we will talk about our first of possibly many tax scam stories shortly.
But first, we like to begin the show with a Fun Fact, and I found this fact to be very fun.
The etymology of the word helicopter may not be what you think.
It is not a combination of heli- and -copter, but of helico-, the derivation of helix, in this case meaning spiral, and -pter, from the Greek “pteron”, meaning wings or feathers, commonly used to describe flying creatures such as the pteranodon and pterodactyl.
So it’s helico- plus -pter!
How do you like that?
DUCK. That’s great, Doug!
Like helicobacter. That’s the…
