Hacking the hackers... with a credit card?

Hacking the hackers... with a credit card?

A cybersecurity firm is buying access to underground crime forums to gather intelligence. Does that seem daft to you?

And over in Nigeria, even if romance scammers would like to update their LinkedIn profiles, just how easy is it to turn a new leaf after a sweet-talking career in cybercrime?

All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.

Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and rude language.

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AI gets hacked, and BitLocker gets bypassed

AI gets hacked, and BitLocker gets bypassed

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17 Jun 1h 12min

This AI worm just rewrote its own rules

This AI worm just rewrote its own rules

Researchers at the University of Toronto have built a worm that thinks for itself. Using free off-the-shelf AI models it works out how to break into each new computer it encounters, and hijacks the po...

10 Jun 46min

This AI security flaw might be impossible to fix

This AI security flaw might be impossible to fix

A website called "UK visa portal" has been quietly collecting passport scans, selfies, and personal data from thousands of travellers who thought they were applying through official channels. They wer...

3 Jun 57min

What your Oura ring won't tell you

What your Oura ring won't tell you

CISA, the US government agency whose entire job is keeping America's critical infrastructure safe from hackers, has had a contractor publish dozens of plain-text credentials to a public GitHub profile...

27 Mai 53min

High-speed train hacks and homicidal lawnmowers

High-speed train hacks and homicidal lawnmowers

A 23-year-old radio enthusiast spent £300 on a piece of kit from the internet, and used it to bring four packed high-speed trains to a screeching halt. His defence in court? Possibly the most creative...

20 Mai 55min

How ShinyHunters hacked the world's biggest universities

How ShinyHunters hacked the world's biggest universities

Welcome to the largest educational data breach in history - affecting nearly 9,000 institutions, every Ivy League university, and 30 million students mid-finals. When Canvas's parent company refused t...

13 Mai 1h 4min

Meta sees everything, Copy Fail, and a deepfake gets hired

Meta sees everything, Copy Fail, and a deepfake gets hired

Meta's smart glasses promise privacy "designed for you" - but everything they record was being beamed off to workers in Nairobi to label by hand. When those workers blew the whistle, Meta sacked all 1...

6 Mai 1h 2min

This developer wanted to cheat at Roblox. It cost millions

This developer wanted to cheat at Roblox. It cost millions

A developer at an AI startup wanted to cheat at Roblox. They downloaded a dodgy script on their work laptop. That one decision triggered a cascade of failures that ended with a $2 million data breach ...

29 Apr 1h 4min

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