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
Money-making bots, and Incognito isn’t private
Google says it is deleting your Google Chrome Incognito private-browsing data that it should never have collected anyway. Can a zero-risk millionaire-making bot be trusted? And what countries are bann...
3 Apr 202451min
Hacking hotels, Google’s AI goof, and cyberflashing
Security researchers find a way to unlock millions of hotel rooms, the UK introduces cyberflashing laws, and Google's AI search pushes malware and scams.All this and much much more is discussed in the...
27 Mars 202453min
Bing pop-up wars, and the British Library ransomware scandal
There's a Bing ding dong, after Microsoft (over?) enthusiastically encourages Chrome users to stop using Google, and silence hits the British Library as it shares its story of a ransomware attack. All...
20 Mars 202451min
