Collaborate Disseminate
In this week’s episode your hosts practice standing on one leg, Carole gives Graham a deepfake quiz, and we investigate how Strava may be exposing the movements of world leaders.
All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winn… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #391: The secret Strava service, deepfakes, and crocodiles
In episode 22 of “The AI Fix”, our hosts encounter a bowl of buttermilk king crab ice cream prepared by a baby hippo, a TV station finds an even better way to generate programme ideas than using a tank full of manatees, and Elon Musk does the world’s m… Continue reading The AI Fix #22: Probing AI tongues and ASCII smuggling attacks
One of the largest internet providers in France, Free S.A.S, has confirmed that it recently suffered a cybersecurity breach after a hacker attempted to sell what purported to be stolen data from the organisation on the dark web.
Read more in my arti… Continue reading French ISP Free confirms data breach after hacker puts customer data up for auction
A US $10 million reward is being offered to anyone who has information about four members of an Iranian hacking group.
The US government’s Rewards for Justice initiative is making the reward available for information about four men believed to be me… Continue reading US offers $10 million bounty for members of Iranian hacking gang
Historically, Mac users haven’t had to worry about malware as much as their Windows-using cousins.
But that doesn’t mean that Mac users should be complacent. And the recent discovery of a new malware strain emphasises that the threat – even if much… Continue reading NotLockBit: ransomware discovery serves as wake-up call for Mac users
The SolarWinds have returned to haunt four cybersecurity companies who tried to hide their breaches and ended up with their trousers around their ankles, and North Korea succeeds in getting one of its IT workers hired… but what’s their plan?
Security researchers have uncovered a new flaw in some AI chatbots that could have allowed hackers to steal personal information from users.
The flaw, which has been named “Imprompter”, which uses a clever trick to hide malicious instructions within… Continue reading AI chatbots can be tricked by hackers into helping them steal your private data
In episode 21 of “The AI Fix””, Mark and Graham comfort themselves with a limbless AI pet as they learn about a terrifying robot dog with a flamethrower, fission-powered data centres, AI suicide pods, and a multi-limbed robot with a passion for classic… Continue reading The AI Fix #21: Virtual Trump, barking mad AI, and a robot dog with a flamethrower
No-one would be bold enough to say that the ransomware problem is receding, but a newly-published report by Microsoft does deliver a slither of encouraging news amongst the gloom.
And boy do we need some good news – amid reports that 389 US-based h… Continue reading A glimmer of good news on the ransomware front, as encryption rates plummet
WordPress’s emperor, Matt Mullenweg, demands a hefty tribute from WP Engine, and a battle erupts, leaving millions of websites hanging in the balance. Meanwhile, the Internet Archive, a digital library preserving our online history, is under siege fro… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #389: WordPress vs WP Engine, and the Internet Archive is down