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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The Godfather club, and AirTags to the rescue
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CrowdStrike, Dark Wire, and the Paris Olympics
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Trump assassination conspiracies, Squarespace account hijacks, and the butt stop...
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Teachers TikTok targeted, and fraud in the doctors’ waiting room
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Private nights, evil twins, and crypto home invasions
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Julian Assange, inside a DDoS attack, and deepfake traumas
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An unhealthy data dump, railway surveillance, and a cheater sues Apple
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iOS 18 for cheaters, and a model cop extortionist?
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Crashing robo-taxis, and name-dropping rappers
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Microsoft’s Recall controversy, and the North Korean insider threat
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iPhone undeleted photos, and stealing Scarlett Johansson’s voice
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The fake deepfake, and Estate insecurity
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Unmasking LockBitsupp, company extortion, and a Tinder fraudster
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The closed loop conundrum, default passwords, and Baby Reindeer
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Keeping the lights on after a ransomware attack
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Gary Barlow, and a scam turns deadly
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WhatsApp at Westminster, unhealthy AI, and Drew Barrymore
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Money-making bots, and Incognito isn’t private
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Hacking hotels, Google’s AI goof, and cyberflashing
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Bing pop-up wars, and the British Library ransomware scandal
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Stuck streaming sticks, TikTok conspiracies, and spying cars
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Ransomware fraud, pharmacy chaos, and suicide
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Wireless charging woe, AI romance apps, and ransomware revisited
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LockBit locked out, and funeral Facebook scams
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Declaring war on ransomware gangs, mobile muddles, and AI religion
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Hong Kong hijinks, pig butchers, and poor ransomware gangs
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Interview with an iPhone thief, anti-AI, and have we gone too far?
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Big dumpers, AI defamation, and the slug that slurped
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Fishy Rishi, 23andMe, and the labour of love
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Chuck Norris and the fake CEO, artificial KYC, and an Airbnb scam
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Phone hacking, Piers Morgan, and Carole’s Christmas cockup
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For research purposes only
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Nuclear cybersecurity, Marketplace scams, and face up to porn
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Think before you shrink! And our guest is faked
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Ransomware gang reports its own crime, and what happened at OpenAI?
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Hacking for chimp change, and AI chatbot birthday
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Trolls, military data, and the hitman and her
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How hackers are breaching Booking.com, and the untrustworthy reviews
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Cyber sloppiness, and why does Google really want to hide your IP address?
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What’s cooking at Booking.com? And a podcast built by AI
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Four-legged girlfriends, LoveGPT, and a military intelligence failure
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Royal family attacked, keyless car theft, and a deepfake Tom Hanks
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Another T-Mobile breach, ThemeBleed, and farewell Naked Security
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Heated seats, car privacy, and Graham’s porn video
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Bitcoin boo-boo, deepfakes for good, and time to say goodbye to usernames?
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Catfishing services, bad sports, and another cockup
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The DEA’s crypto calamity, and scammers’ blue tick bonanza
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Pizza pests, and securing your wearables
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AI chat wars, and hacker passwords exposed
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