Botched Bitcoin blackmail, iSpoof, and Meta’s billion dollar data bungle
13 years jail for spoofing scammer, a rogue IT security expert's Bitcoin blackmail goes wrong, and Facebook's eyewatering GDPR fine may be only the beginning of its problems.All this and much much mor...
24 Maj 202349min
When you buy a criminal’s phone, and paying for social media scams
Personal information is going for a song, and the banks want social media sites to pay when their users get scammed.All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security"...
17 Maj 202341min
Eurovision, acts of war, and Twitter circles
Twitter shares explicit photos without users' permission, one US company can look forward to a $1.4 billion payout seven years after an infamous cyberattack, and how might hackers target Eurovision?Al...
10 Maj 20231h 6min
City Jerks, AI animals, and is the BBC hacking again?
Two unsavoury websites suffer from a worrying leak, scientists are going animal crackers over AI, and the BBC is intercepting scammers' live phone calls with victims.All this and much much more is dis...
3 Maj 202348min
The CEO who also ran IT, Strava strife, and TikTok tall tales
A boss is bitten in the bottom after being struck by one of the worst crimes in Finnish history, Strava's privacy isn't so private, and a private investigator uncovers some TikTok tall tales. All this...
26 Apr 202356min
Tesla workers spy on drivers, and Operation Fox Hunt scams
Graham wonders what would happen if his bouncing buttocks were captured on camera by a Tesla employee, and we take a look at canny scams connected to China's Operation Fox Hunt.All this and more is di...
19 Apr 202336min
Another Uber SNAFU, an AI chatbot quiz, and is juice-jacking genuine?
Everyone's talking juice-jacking - but has anyone ever been juice-jacked? Uber suffers yet another data breach, but it hasn't been hacked. And Carole hosts the "AI-a-go-go or a no-no?" quiz for Dave a...
12 Apr 202350min
Of Musk and Afroman
An Elon Musk-worshipping college principal gets schooled, and rapper Afroman turns the tables after armed police raid his house.All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashi...
5 Apr 202342min
