Face value: What it takes to fool facial recognition
ESET’s Jake Moore used smart glasses, deepfakes and face swaps to ‘hack’ widely-used facial recognition systems – and he'll demo...
privacy
How to see your Google Search history (and delete it)
Your Google Search history provides one of the most detailed windows into your private life, and I know this...
Inference protection for LLMs: Keeping sensitive data out of AI workflows
As organizations accelerate their adoption of large language models, data privacy and security concerns have emerged as one of...
Ring doorbells: Won’t you see my neighbor? (Lock and Code S07E05)
This week on the Lock and Code podcast… On February 8, during the Super Bowl in the United States,...
Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Privacy-Preserving Context Validation
The privacy gap in modern ai context sharing Ever notice how every time you use an ai tool, you're...
The Instagram API Scraping Crisis: When ‘Public’ Data Becomes a 17.5 Million User Breach
On January 7, 2026, a dataset containing 17.5 million Instagram user records appeared on BreachForums – a notorious dark...
Smashing Security podcast #456: 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...
$10,000 bounty offered if you can hack Ring cameras to stop them sharing your data with Amazon
Did you watch this year's Super Bowl? If you did, maybe you're one of those who were sat at your...
iPhone Privacy Alert: Predator Spyware Can Hide Camera, Mic Indicators
Image: Bagus Hernawan (Unsplash) The tiny green and orange dots on your iPhone are supposed to protect you. But new...
TikTok’s New U.S. Deal and Privacy Policy: What Users Don’t Understand
TikTok has shifted to a majority-American entity, TikTok USDS Joint Venture, LLC, to comply with U.S. national security requirements...
What Is Zero Trust Security? A Plain-English Guide
The old security model had a name, even if no one used it: "castle and moat." You built a...
ChatGPT Ads Are Coming: What 800 Million Users Need to Know About the New Economics of ‘Free’ AI
On January 17, 2026, OpenAI dropped a bombshell: ads are coming to ChatGPT. Not just for free users. For...
Smashing Security podcast #455: 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...
Substack Breach May Have Leaked Nearly 700,000 User Details Online
Image: Freepik A popular home for independent writers is dealing with a security scare. Substack has confirmed that hackers accessed...
Outlook add-in goes rogue and steals 4,000 credentials and payment data
Researchers found a malicious Microsoft Outlook add-in which was able to steal 4,000 stolen Microsoft account credentials, credit card...
