Frankly, sometimes paying the ransom is a good idea
Remember how the City of Baltimore was badly hit by ransomware earlier this year? Turns out that wasn't the end of their problems. Also, Carole takes a look at how smart speakers can be hacked to tri...
23 Okt 201955min
Liverpool WAGs, Facebook politics, and a selfie stalker
Footballers' wives go to war over Instagram leaks, it turns out fake news is fine on Facebook (just so long as it's in a political ad), and things take a horrific turn in Japan, as a stalker uses a sc...
16 Okt 201951min
Falling in love with fraudsters
We take a trip to Staten Island, New York, to hear how a case of cyberstalking resulted in the arrest of 20 alleged mobsters, learn about the nude photo-loving insider threat at Yahoo, and discover ho...
9 Okt 201946min
Billboard boobs, face forensics, and Alexa gets way too personal
Drivers are distracted by a hacked billboard, we take a deeper look at how the deepfake problem has... uh... deepened, and Carole is less than happy about Amazon's announcement about new Alexa integra...
2 Okt 201950min
Don't Snapchat and drive
How is private medical data leaking onto the streets of Milton Keynes, what is widening the cybersecurity skills gap, and how is Australia controversially tackling the problem of drivers using their m...
25 Sep 201949min
Password secrets and baking brownies
In the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast, hosted by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, Carole has suffered an injury, we journey back in time to one of our ...
18 Sep 201938min
Apple and Google willy wave while home assistants spy - DoH!
Apple is furious with Google over iPhone hacking attacks against Uyghur Muslims in China, DNS-over-HTTPS is good for privacy but makes ISPs angry, and concern over digital assistants listening to our ...
11 Sep 201944min
Google helps the FBI, Twitter Jack’s hijack, and car data woes
Should Google really be helping the FBI with a bank robbery? What's the story behind the Twitter CEO claiming there's a bomb in their offices? And how much does your car really know about you?And we m...
4 Sep 201951min
