Microsoft’s Recall controversy, and the North Korean insider threat
Microsoft gets itself into a pickle with a privacy-popping new feature on its CoPilot+ PCs, the FTC warns of impersonated companies, and is your company hiring North Korean IT workers?All this and muc...
29 Maj 202452min
iPhone undeleted photos, and stealing Scarlett Johansson’s voice
iPhone photos come back from the dead! Scarlett Johansson sounds upset about GPT-4o, and there's a cockup involving celebrity fakes.All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Sm...
22 Maj 202455min
The fake deepfake, and Estate insecurity
Remember when a US mother was accused of distributing explicit deepfake photos and videos to try to get her teenage daughter's cheerleading rivals kicked off the team? Well, there has been a surprisin...
15 Maj 202438min
Unmasking LockBitsupp, company extortion, and a Tinder fraudster
The kingpin of the LockBit ransomware is named and sanctioned, a cybersecurity consultant is charged with a $1.5 million extortion, and a romance fraudster stole £80,000 from women he met on Tinder.Al...
8 Maj 202451min
The closed loop conundrum, default passwords, and Baby Reindeer
The UK Government takes aim at IoT devices shipping with weak or default passwords, a man spends two years incarcerated after being mistaken for the person who stole his identity, and are you au fait ...
1 Maj 202454min
Keeping the lights on after a ransomware attack
Leicester City Council suffers a crippling ransomware attack, and a massive data breach, but is it out of the dark yet? And as election fever hits India we take a close eye at deepfakery.All this and ...
24 Apr 202442min
Gary Barlow, and a scam turns deadly
Take That's Gary Barlow chats up a pizza-slinging granny from Essex via Facebook, or does he? And a scam takes a sinister turn - for both the person being scammed and an innocent participant - in Ohi...
17 Apr 202437min
WhatsApp at Westminster, unhealthy AI, and Drew Barrymore
MPs aren't just getting excited about an upcoming election, but also the fruity WhatsApp messages they're receiving, can we trust AI with our health, and who on earth is pretending to be a producer fo...
10 Apr 202452min
