Private nights, evil twins, and crypto home invasions
Apps can let you spy on strangers in bars, a gang of cryptocurrency thieves turns to kidnap and assault, and have you joined the mile-high evil twin club?All this and much much more is discussed in th...
3 Juli 202448min
Julian Assange, inside a DDoS attack, and deepfake traumas
Wikileaks's Julian Assange is a free man, deepfakes cause trouble in the playground, and we hear hot takes about ransomware and tales from inside a devastating denial-of-service attack.All this and mu...
26 Juni 202448min
An unhealthy data dump, railway surveillance, and a cheater sues Apple
There's a wee data breach with unhealthy implications in Scotland, privacy has gone off the rails in the UK, and a cheater blames Apple for his expensive divorce.All this and much more is discussed in...
19 Juni 20241h
iOS 18 for cheaters, and a model cop extortionist?
Apple announces a new privacy feature in iOS that will allow you to hide and lock away your apps - but will it be philanderers who benefit the most? And an ex-police officer is arrested for extortion...
12 Juni 202432min
Crashing robo-taxis, and name-dropping rappers
Drones, some coloured cardboard, and a piece of tinfoil may be all the kit you need to crash a robot-driven taxi, and a rapper is accused of using Justin Bieber's name to defraud a TV company.All this...
5 Juni 202436min
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
