Shackled ankles, photo scrapes, and SIM card swaps
A bad software update causes big headaches for Dutch police, but brings temporary freedom to criminals. SIM swaps are in the news again as fraudsters steal millions. And does your cloud photo storag...
15 Touko 201950min
I do love the Dutch
Israel strikes back at Hamas's hacking HQ, a new sextortion email comes with a twist, and Carole saves the world with some help from hacked Roomba vacuum cleaners.All this and much much more is discus...
8 Touko 201945min
Zombie chickens and fast-food victims
What's the worst that can happen if you join a Hollywood hard man's Facebook page? What drove a man to hijack a website's name at gunpoint? And can you solve the mystery of the Canadian Hamburglar?A...
1 Touko 201949min
Pick of the thief!
WannaCry's "accidental hero" pleads guilty to malware charges, Samsung and Nokia have fingerprint fumbles, the NCSC publishes a list of 100,000 dreadful passwords, and Apple finds itself at the centre...
24 Huhti 201947min
Poisoned porn ads, the A word, and why why why Wipro?
The hacker who lived the high life after spreading malware via porn sites, Wipro demonstrates how to turn a cybersecurity crisis into a PR disaster, and why are humans listening in to your Alexa conve...
17 Huhti 201952min
Backups - a necessary evil? (replay)
With Graham incapacitated, we drag an episode out from the archives. In this special "splinter" episode of the "Smashing Security" podcast from September 2017 we tackle the tricky subject of backups ...
10 Huhti 201930min
The big fat con at Office Depot
Office Depot and OfficeMax are fined millions for tricking customers into thinking their computers were infected with malware, car alarms can make your vehicle less secure, and facial recognition in a...
3 Huhti 201948min
Hijacked motel rooms, ASUS PCs, and leaky apps
An app leaking private conversations and intimate photographs is ignoring requests to fix the problem, hackers poison a security update sent to ASUS PCs, and how to protect your privacy in motel rooms...
27 Maalis 201947min
