Smashing Security podcast #371: 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,...
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Smashing Security podcast #370: The closed loop conundrum, default passwords, and Baby Reindeer
The UK Government takes aim at IoT devices shipping with weak or default passwords, an identity thief spends two years...
Smashing Security podcast #369: 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...
Smashing Security podcast #368: 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...
Smashing Security podcast #367: 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...
Smashing Security podcast #366: Money-making bots, and Incognito isn’t private
Google says it is deleting the your Google Chrome Incognito private-browsing data that it should never have collected anyway. Can...
Smashing Security podcast #365: 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...
Smashing Security podcast #364: 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...
Smashing Security podcast #363: Stuck streaming sticks, TikTok conspiracies, and spying cars
Roku users are revolting after their TVs are bricked by the company, we learn how to make money through conspiracy...
Smashing Security podcast #362: Ransomware fraud, pharmacy chaos, and suicide
Is there any truth behind the alleged data breach at Fortnite maker Epic Games? Who launched the ransomware attack that...
Smashing Security podcast #361: Wireless charging woe, AI romance apps, and ransomware revisited
Your smartphone may be toast – if you use a hacked wireless charger, we take a closer look at the...
Smashing Security podcast #360: Lockbit locked out, and funeral Facebook scams
Heaven’s above! Scammers are exploiting online funerals, and Lockbit – the “Walmart of Ransomware” – is dismantled in style by...
Smashing Security podcast #359: Declaring war on ransomware gangs, mobile muddles, and AI religion
Holy mackerel! AI is jumping on the religion bandwagon, ransomware gangs target hospitals, and what’s happened to your old mobile...
Smashing Security podcast #358: Hong Kong hijinks, pig butchers, and poor ransomware gangs
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? A company in Hong Kong suffers a sophisticated deepfake duping, be...
Smashing Security podcast #357: Interview with an iPhone thief, anti-AI, and have we gone too far?
The iPhone security setting that you should enable right now, the worrying way that AI is predicting what criminals look...
