Smashing Security podcast #391: The secret Strava service, deepfakes, and crocodiles

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.

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Smashing Security podcast #383: The Godfather club, and AirTags to the rescue

There’s a whole new dating scam that could mean you end up out of pocket (or beaten up) after a first date with a glamorous admirer, and a woman in Los Alamos uses an Air Tag to entrap a thief.

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Smashing Security podcast #379: Private nights, evil twins, and crypto home invasions

Apps can let you spy on strangers in bars, a gang of cryptocurrency thieves turns to kidnap and assault, and have you joined the mile-high evil twin club?

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Location tracking and the battle for digital privacy

While some online privacy issues can be subtle and difficult to understand, location tracking is very simple – and very scary. Perhaps nothing reveals more about who we are and what we do than a detailed map of all the places and people we visit, where… Continue reading Location tracking and the battle for digital privacy

Smashing Security podcast #356: Big dumpers, AI defamation, and the slug that slurped

This week the podcast is more lavatorial than usual, as we explore how privacy may have gone to sh*t on Google Maps, our guest drives hands-free on Britain’s motorways (and is defamed by AI), and ransomware attacks an airplane-leasing firm.

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iOS 17 update secretly changed your privacy settings; here’s how to set them back

Many iPhone users who upgraded their iPhones to the recently-released iOS 17 will be alarmed to hear that they may have actually downgraded their security and privacy.

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