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Is Santa Claus real? This Christmas special of The AI Fix podcast sets out to answer that question in the most sensible way possible: by consulting chatbots, Google’s festive killjoys, and the laws of relativistic physics.
Your hosts unwrap a festive … Continue reading The AI Fix #82: Santa Claus doesn’t exist (according to AI)
Think your Kindle is harmless? Think again! In this episode, we unpack a Black Hat Europe talk revealing how a boobytrapped audiobook could exploit the Amazon eBook reader – potentially letting an attacker break into your account and seize control of y… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #448: The Kindle that got pwned
If you’re planning a cruise for your holidays, and cannot bear the idea of being parted from your Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, you may want to avoid sailing with MSC Cruises.
The cruise line has updated its list of prohibited items, specifically bannin… Continue reading Surveillance at sea: Cruise firm bans smart glasses to curb covert recording
In episode 81 of The AI Fix, Graham discovers that deepfakes are already marking your kids’ homework, while Mark glimpses the future when he discovers AI agents that can communicate by reading each other’s minds.
Also in this episode, a Chinese robot … Continue reading The AI Fix #81: ChatGPT is the last AI you’ll understand, and your teacher is a deepfake
A 49-year-old man has received a five-and-a-half year jail sentence after admitting to creating detailed video tutorials that showed members of a criminal gang how to infect Android phones with spyware and drain their bank accounts.
Read more in my ar… Continue reading Man jailed for teaching criminals how to use malware
Analyst firm Gartner has issued a blunt warning to organizations: Agentic AI browsers introduce serious new security risks and should be blocked “for the foreseeable future.”
Read more in my article on the Fortra blog. Continue reading Gartner tells businesses to block AI browsers now
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 millionaire’s lawn and ends with Grok happily doxxing real people, mapping out stalking “strategies,… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #447: Grok the stalker, the Louvre heist, and Microsoft 365 mayhem
A new report from the United States’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has shone a revealing light on the state of the criminal industry of ransomware.
The report, which examines ransomware incidents from 2022 to 2024, reveals that attack… Continue reading Ransomware may have extorted over $2.1 billion between 2022-2024, but it’s not all bad news, claims FinCEN report
Remember when a notorious ransomware gang hit the Irish Health Service back in May 2021? Four years on, and it seems victims who had their data exposed will finally receive compensation.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Four years later, Irish health service offers €750 to victims of ransomware attack
When you spend half a million dollars in a single night at a nightclub, purchase exotic cars worth millions, and rent mansions under false names, you are risking drawing attention to yourself…
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading California man admits role in $263 million cryptocurrency theft that funded lavish lifestyle