Smashing Security

Keeping the lights on after a ransomware attack

Leicester City Council suffers a crippling ransomware attack, and a massive data breach, but is...

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Gary Barlow, and a scam turns deadly

Take That's Gary Barlow chats up a pizza-slinging granny from Essex via Facebook, or does he?...

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• 7 días

WhatsApp at Westminster, unhealthy AI, and Drew Barrymore

MPs aren't just getting excited about an upcoming election, but also the fruity WhatsApp messages...

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• 14 días

Money-making bots, and Incognito isn’t private

Google says it is deleting the your Google Chrome Incognito private-browsing data that it should...

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• 21 días

Hacking hotels, Google’s AI goof, and cyberflashing

Security researchers find a way to unlock millions of hotel rooms, the UK introduces...

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• 28 días

Bing pop-up wars, and the British Library ransomware scandal

There's a Bing ding dong, after Microsoft (over?) enthusiastically encourages Chrome users to...

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• 1 mes

Stuck streaming sticks, TikTok conspiracies, and spying cars

Roku users are revolting after their TVs are bricked by the company, we learn how to make money...

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• 1 mes

Ransomware fraud, pharmacy chaos, and suicide

Is there any truth behind the alleged data breach at Fortnite maker Epic Games? Who launched the...

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• 2 meses

Wireless charging woe, AI romance apps, and ransomware revisited

Your smartphone may be toast - if you use a hacked wireless charger, we take a closer look at the...

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• 2 meses

Lockbit locked out, and funeral Facebook scams

Heaven's above! Scammers are exploiting online funerals, and Lockbit - the "Walmart of...

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• 2 meses

Declaring war on ransomware gangs, mobile muddles, and AI religion

Holy mackerel! AI is jumping on the religion bandwagon, ransomware gangs target hospitals, and...

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• 2 meses

Hong Kong hijinks, pig butchers, and poor ransomware gangs

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? A company in Hong Kong suffers a sophisticated...

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• 2 meses

Interview with an iPhone thief, anti-AI, and have we gone too far?

The iPhone security setting that you should enable right now, the worrying way that AI is...

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• 3 meses

Big dumpers, AI defamation, and the slug that slurped

This week the podcast is more lavatorial than usual, as we explore how privacy may have gone to...

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• 3 meses

Fishy Rishi, 23andMe, and the labour of love

Has the British Prime Minister been caught secretly profiting from a cryptocurrency app? Were...

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• 3 meses

Chuck Norris and the fake CEO, artificial KYC, and an Airbnb scam

Chuck Norris gives a helping hand to a mysterious cryptocurrency CEO who may have separated...

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• 3 meses

Phone hacking, Piers Morgan, and Carole’s Christmas cockup

Piers Morgan is less than happy after a judgement that there is "no doubt" he knew phone hacking...

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• 4 meses

For research purposes only

A hacker bursts the bubble of inflatable fetish fans, Hollywood celebrities unwittingly record...

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• 4 meses

Nuclear cybersecurity, Marketplace scams, and face up to porn

Hacking fears are raised at Western Europe's most hazardous building, why porn sites might soon...

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• 5 meses

Think before you shrink! And our guest is faked

Don't minimise your Teams Meeting video call too hastily, you might reveal your dirty secrets!...

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• 5 meses