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 Maj 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 Apr 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 Apr 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 Apr 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 Apr 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 Mars 201947min
Silk Road with Deliveroo
Online drug dealers get busted due to poor OPSEC! People are still failing to wipe their USB sticks properly! A potential presidential candidate is outed as a former hacker! Flat Earthers! Pi! Empathy...
20 Mars 201948min
Hijacked homes, porn passports, and ransomware regret
A $150 million mansion is hijacked online, Brits will soon have to scan their passport to watch internet porn, and are organisations right to pay up when hit by ransomware?All this and much much more ...
13 Mars 201954min
