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Smashing Security
Smashing Security isn’t your typical tech podcast. Hosted by cybersecurity veteran Graham Cluley, it serves up weekly tales of cybercrime, hacking horror stories, privacy blunders, and tech mishaps - all with sharp insight, a sense of humour, and zero tolerance for tech waffle.Winner of the best and...
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Never say this to a robot dog
At Black Hat this month, a group of security researchers took a $9,000 robot dog, plugged Google's AI into its brain, and jailbroke it by telling it -...
This is the AI service you should never sign up to
Would you like access to Anthropic's Claude at 90% off the normal price? All you have to do is redirect your traffic to a mysterious service called "P...
How a fake police officer nearly stole Graham's cryptocurrency
Graham gets a phone call from the police. Well, someone who sounds convincingly like the police. There's just one small problem: what they really want...
This job interview could destroy your company
You've been headhunted for a great job in cryptocurrency. All you have to do is complete a short online assessment - with your webcam on, of course, s...
How 14 orders of chicken McNuggets helped nail a suspected Russian hacker
A Russian intelligence-linked hacker is arrested in Thailand while enjoying a beach holiday - and the trail of evidence that nailed him to the Russian...
Remote-control rickshaws and rogue book marketers
An app has appeared in India that lets anyone with a smartphone stop a passing e-rickshaw dead in its tracks - no login, no passwords, no permissions...
JadePuffer - the AI that ran a ransomware attack all by itself
A 15-year-old boy asked a chatbot for help - and cancelled nearly 47,000 anime streaming subscriptions in under four hours. Meanwhile, researchers hav...
Polymarket can predict the future. So how did it miss this hack?
Polymarket has built an entire business on predicting the future. So how did it manage to spectacularly fail to predict its own hack? Plus, the Google...
How a hacker could have Rickrolled the entire World Cup
A polite caller from your bank says there is a problem with your account. Don't worry - they'll send someone round to help. They'll even take your car...
AI gets hacked, and BitLocker gets bypassed
What if your AI coding assistant could be tricked into stealing your own company's secrets - by reading a single booby-trapped bug report? No phishing...
This AI worm just rewrote its own rules
Researchers at the University of Toronto have built a worm that thinks for itself. Using free off-the-shelf AI models it works out how to break into e...
This AI security flaw might be impossible to fix
A website called "UK visa portal" has been quietly collecting passport scans, selfies, and personal data from thousands of travellers who thought they...
What your Oura ring won't tell you
CISA, the US government agency whose entire job is keeping America's critical infrastructure safe from hackers, has had a contractor publish dozens of...
High-speed train hacks and homicidal lawnmowers
A 23-year-old radio enthusiast spent £300 on a piece of kit from the internet, and used it to bring four packed high-speed trains to a screeching halt...
How ShinyHunters hacked the world's biggest universities
Welcome to the largest educational data breach in history - affecting nearly 9,000 institutions, every Ivy League university, and 30 million students...
Meta sees everything, Copy Fail, and a deepfake gets hired
Meta's smart glasses promise privacy "designed for you" - but everything they record was being beamed off to workers in Nairobi to label by hand. When...
This developer wanted to cheat at Roblox. It cost millions
A developer at an AI startup wanted to cheat at Roblox. They downloaded a dodgy script on their work laptop. That one decision triggered a cascade of...
Rockstar got hacked. The data was junk. The secrets it revealed were not
A company that ran anonymous tip lines for 35,000 American schools - handling reports of bullying, weapons, and self-harm - boasted on its website tha...
This AI company leaked its own code. It's also built something terrifying
A hacking group claims to have broken into the flood defence system protecting Venice's Piazza San Marco - and is offering to sell access to whoever w...
LinkedIn is spying on you, and you agreed to nothing
LinkedIn has been secretly scanning your browser for over 6,000 installed extensions — on every single click you make. It can tell if you're job hunti...
This man hid $400 million in a fishing rod. Then it vanished
A cannabis-growing, beekeeping, gyrocopter-flying Irishman invested his drug money in Bitcoin back in 2011 - and now sits on a fortune worth $400 mill...
Never knock on the door of a nuclear submarine base and ask for a selfie
A disgruntled data analyst decides that the best response to losing his contract is to steal the entire company payroll database and demand $2.5 milli...
This clever scam nearly hijacked a tech CEO's Apple ID
In episode 459 of Smashing Security, we dive into a chillingly clever account takeover attempt targeting WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg - involvi...
How not to steal $46 million from the US government
A Wikipedia security engineer accidentally wakes a dormant JavaScript worm that hadn't stirred since 2024 - and within minutes, giant woodpecker image...
How a cybersecurity boss framed his own employee
When a top cybersecurity firm discovered it had a leak, you would expect the FBI to be called. Instead, the person put in charge of the investigation...
How to lose friends and DDoS people
When the mysterious operator of an internet archiving-service decided to silence a curious Finnish blogger, they didn’t just send a stroppy email - th...
Face off: Meta’s Glasses and America’s internet kill switch
Could America turn off Europe's internet?
That’s one of the questions that Graham and special guest James Ball will be exploring as they discuss...
AI was not plotting humanity’s demise. Humans were
AI bots are having existential crises, inventing religions, and allegedly plotting against humanity... or so the internet would have you believe.
The Epstein Files didn’t hide this hacker very well
Supposedly redacted Jeffrey Epstein files can still reveal exactly who they’re talking about - especially when AI, LinkedIn, and a few biographical br...
The dark web's worst assassins, and Pegasus in the dock
In episode 452, a London-based YouTuber wins a landmark court case against Saudi Arabia after his phone was hacked with Pegasus spyware — exposing how...
I hacked the government, and your headphones are next
In episode 451 of "Smashing Security," we meet the cybercriminal who hacked the US Supreme Court, Veterans Affairs, and more - and then helpfully post...
From Instagram panic to Grok gone wild
Confusion reigns after claims that data linked to 17.5 million Instagram accounts is up for sale - sparked by a vague post, contradictory statements,...
How to scam someone in seven days
Romance scammers have apparently discovered astrology... and Taurus is their secret weapon.
In episode 449 of "Smashing Security", we take a loo...
The Kindle that got pwned
Think your Kindle is harmless? Think again! In this episode, Graham and special guest Danny Palmer unpack a Black Hat Europe talk revealing how a boob...
Grok the stalker, the Louvre heist, and Microsoft 365 mayhem
On this week's show we learn that AI really can be a stalker’s best friend, as we explore a strange tale that starts with a manatee-shaped mailbox on...
A hacker doxxes himself, and social engineering-as-a-service
A teenage cybercriminal posts a smug screenshot to mock a sextortion scammer... and accidentally hands over the keys to his real-world identity. Meanw...
The hack that brought back the zombie apocalypse
America's airwaves are haunted by zombies again, as we dig into a decade of broadcasters leaving their hardware open to attack, giving hackers the cha...
We’re sorry. Wait, did a company actually say that?
Stop the press - a company has actually said "sorry" after a data breach, and hotels are helping hackers phish their own guests.
In episode 444...
Tinder’s camera roll and the Buffett deepfake
Tinder has got a plan to rummage through your camera roll, and Warren Buffett keeps popping up in convincing deepfakes dishing "number one investment...
The hack that messed with time, and rogue ransomware negotiators
Time itself comes under attack as a state-backed hacking gang spends two years tunnelling toward a nation’s master clock — with chaos potentially only...