Collaborate Disseminate
In episode 37 of “The AI Fix”, Google Gemini gets the munchies, the wettest country in the world can’t find any water, an escalator tries to eat Graham, o3-mini can’t rub two sticks together, and OpenAI invents an AI that can do “a single-digit percent… Continue reading The AI Fix #37: DeepSeek is a security dumpster fire, and quicksand for AI
North American drivers are continuing to be barraged by waves of scam text messages, telling them that they owe money on unpaid tolls.
Do you know what to tell your friends and family to watch out for?
Read more in my article on the Hot for Secur… Continue reading Toll booth bandits continue to scam via SMS messages
The Taliban government of Afghanistan is reeling after unidentified hackers successfully carried out a massive cyber attack against its computer systems and published over 50GB of stolen documents and files online.
Read more in my article on the Hot… Continue reading Secret Taliban records published online after hackers breach computer systems
British legal professionals have seen a “significant surge” in data breaches, according to new research from NetDocuments, a firm that provides a cloud-based content management platform for the legal sector.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire S… Continue reading Data breaches at UK law firms are on the rise, research reveals
British legal professionals have seen a “significant surge” in data breaches, according to new research from NetDocuments, a firm that provides a cloud-based content management platform for the legal sector.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire S… Continue reading Data breaches at UK law firms are on the rise, research reveals
Well, this is a different approach to the scam problem…
The government of Thailand has cut the power supply to areas near its border with Myanmar that are known to host brutal scam compounds. These heavily-guarded fraud factories house armies of … Continue reading Thailand cuts power and internet to areas of Myanmar to disrupt scam gangs
In episode 403 of “Smashing Security” we dive into the mystery of $65 million vanishing from Coinbase users faster than J-Lo slipped into Graham’s DMs, Geoff gives a poor grade for PowerSchool’s security, and Carole takes a curious look at QR codes.
A California man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for his involvement in a fraudulent scheme that saw over 50 individuals and organisations lose millions of dollars.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog. Continue reading Man sentenced to 7 years in prison for role in $50m internet scam
In episode 36 of The AI Fix, Graham and Mark take a long look at DeepSeek, an upstart AI out of China that was trained on a shoestring, shook up Wall Street, kneecapped Nvidia, and challenged America’s AI hegemony.
Graham also discovers a remarkably… Continue reading The AI Fix #36: A DeepSeek special
What happens when eager computer enthusiasts unknowingly download a trojanized hacking tool and find themselves on the wrong side of cybersecurity? A former employee’s actions led to chaos and raise urgent questions about the security of cultural trea… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #402: Hackers get hacked, the British Museum IT shutdown, and social media kidnaps