Smashing Security
Stories from the world of hacking, cybersecurity, and rogue AI.Smashing Security isn’t your typical tech podcast. Hosted by cybersecurity veteran Graham Cluley, it serves up weekly tales of cybercrime, hacking horror stories, privacy blunders, and tech mishaps - all with sharp insight, a sense of humour, and zero tolerance for tech waffle.Winner of the best and most entertaining cybersecurity podcast awards in 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, and 2024, Smashing Security has had over ten million downloads...
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How hackers turned AI into their new henchman
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Oops! I auto-filled my password into a cookie banner
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How to mine millions without paying the bill
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Poisoned Calendar invites, ChatGPT, and Bromide
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Replit panics, and the AI that will kill you
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Red flags, leaked chats, and a final farewell
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When 2G attacks, and a romantic road trip goes wrong
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Choo Choo Choose to ignore the vulnerability
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Call of Duty: From pew-pew to pwned
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Surveillance, spyware, and self-driving snafus
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Operation Endgame, deepfakes, and dead slugs
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The curious case of the code copier
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Toothpick flirts, Google leaks, and ICE ICE scammers
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Fake Susies, flawed systems, and fruity fixes for anxiety
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Star Wars, the CIA, and a WhatsApp malware mirage
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Grid failures, Instagram scams, and Legal Aid leaks
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Hello, Pervert! - Sextortion scams and Discord disasters
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High street hacks, and Disney's Wingdings woe
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Hacking hijinks at the hospital, and WASPI scams
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Zoom.. just one click and your data goes boom!
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Hacking the hackers... with a credit card?
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Signalgate sucks, and the quandary of quishing
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The fall of Troy, and whisky barrel scammers
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Unleash the AI bot army against the scammers - now!
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Peeping perverts and FBI phone calls
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A gag order backfires, and a snail mail ransom demand
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HP's hold music, and human trafficking
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History's biggest heist just happened, and online abuse
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A crypto con exchange, and soaring ticket scams
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Coinbase crypto heists, QR codes, and ransomware in the classroom
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Hackers get hacked, the British Museum IT shutdown, and social media kidnaps
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Hacks on the high seas, and how your home can be stolen under your nose
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Hacker games, AI travel surveillance, and 25 years of IoT
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Honey in hot water, and reset your devices
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Fake CAPTCHAs, Harmageddon, and Krispy Kreme
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Snowflake hackers, and under the influence
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Dishy DDoS dramas, and mining our minds for data
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Gym hacking, disappearing DNA, and a social lockout
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Digital arrest scams and stream-jacking
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Who needs a laptop to hack when you have a Firestick?
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Pasta spies and private eyes, and are you applying for a ghost job?
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The secret Strava service, deepfakes, and crocodiles
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When security firms get hacked, and your new North Korean remote worker
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WordPress vs WP Engine, and the Internet Archive is down
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Vacuum cleaner voyeur, and pepperoni pact blocks payout
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Breaches in your genes, and Kaspersky switcheroo raises a red flag
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The $230 million crypto handbag heist, and misinformation on social media
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TFL security derailed, and is Trump the king of crypto?
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A room with a view, AI music shenanigans, and a cocaine bear
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