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 videos on TikTok, and just how much is your car snooping on your driving?

All this and much much more is discussed in the latest editi… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #363: Stuck streaming sticks, TikTok conspiracies, and spying cars

$12.5 billion lost to cybercrime, amid tidal wave of crypto investment fraud

If you have been optimistically daydreaming that losses attributed to cybercrime might have reduced in the last year, it’s time to wake up.

The FBI’s latest annual Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) report has just been published, and makes for s… Continue reading $12.5 billion lost to cybercrime, amid tidal wave of crypto investment fraud

US insurance firms sound alarm after 66,000 individuals impacted by SIM swap attack

Two US insurance companies are warning that thousands of individuals’ personal information may have been stolen after hackers compromised computer systems.

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China is hacking Wi-Fi routers for attack on US electrical grid and water supplies, FBI warns

China-sponsored attacks likened to “placing bombs in water treatment facilities, and power plants”.

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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 like, and we play a game of face fake or real…

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With hackers poisoning water systems, US agencies issue incident response guide to boost cybersecurity

US federal agencies have teamed up to release a cybersecurity best practice guidance for the water and wastewater sector (WWS).

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