Cozy Bear, dildo scams, and robo hires and fires

Cozy Bear, dildo scams, and robo hires and fires

Microsoft warns about a hacking gang that is far from cuddly, algorithms rather than managers are firing people, and our guest receives a surprising email from "Amazon"...

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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 David Bisson.


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Hong Kong hijinks, pig butchers, and poor ransomware gangs

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 deepfake duping, be one your guard from pig butchers as Valentine's Day approaches, and spare a moment to fe...

7 Feb 202451min

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

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 predicting what criminals look like, and we play a game of face fake or real...All this and much much more is ...

31 Jan 202458min

Big dumpers, AI defamation, and the slug that slurped

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 sh*t on Google Maps, our guest drives hands-free on Britain's motorways (and is defamed by AI), and rans...

24 Jan 202446min

Fishy Rishi, 23andMe, and the labour of love

Fishy Rishi, 23andMe, and the labour of love

Has the British Prime Minister been caught secretly profiting from a cryptocurrency app? Were 23andMe right to blame their users after a data breach? And Indian men have hard feelings after falling fo...

17 Jan 202447min

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

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 investors from over a billion dollars, generative AI creates a nightmare for those wanting to Know Their Cus...

10 Jan 202448min

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

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 was going on at the Daily Mirror, and a shopper comes a-cropper just before Christmas.All this and more...

20 Des 202344min

For research purposes only

For research purposes only

A hacker bursts the bubble of inflatable fetish fans, Hollywood celebrities unwittingly record videos in a Kremlin plot, and there's a particularly devious WordPress-related malware campaign.All this ...

13 Des 202356min

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