What happens if your personal devices are stolen? Few victims of theft recover their goods. But the loss of the hardware might only be the start of their problems.
There is a growing black market in stolen devices, but also in tools that can unlock them, to steal credentials or to attack other networks. People who lose a device can be a victim twice over, if hackers then use their own property to target their identity.
In this week’s episode, security researcher Adalsteinn Jonsson explains how this is exactly what happened to his partner, and how the incident prompted him, to undertake their own investigations. He, and fellow researcher at cyber security company Cyren, Magni Reynir Sigurðsson, take up the story.
Interview by Stephen Pritchard

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