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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Sextortion, silicone face masks, and a DDoS doofus
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Cookie cock-ups, Hong Kong protests, and smart TV virus scans
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CBP cyber attack, an iPhone privacy boost, and Twitter list abuse
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Zap yourself from the net, and patch now against BlueKeep
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Doctored videos, Bcc blunders, and a diva
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Too Long; Didn't Listen
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Shackled ankles, photo scrapes, and SIM card swaps
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I do love the Dutch
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Zombie chickens and fast-food victims
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Pick of the thief!
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Poisoned porn ads, the A word, and why why why Wipro?
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Backups - a necessary evil? (replay)
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The big fat con at Office Depot
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Hijacked motel rooms, ASUS PCs, and leaky apps
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Silk Road with Deliveroo
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Hijacked homes, porn passports, and ransomware regret
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The 's' in IoT stands for security
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SWATs on a plane
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Stalking debtors, Facebook farce, and a cyber insurance snag
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Love, Nests, and is 2FA destroying the world?
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Darknet Diaries, death, and beauty apps
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FaceTime, Facebook, faceplant
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Payroll scams, gold coin heists, web giants spanked
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When rivals hack, and "extreme" baby monitors
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What? You can get paid to leave Facebook?
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Grinches target Amazon and Reddit, stealing Christmas from the poor
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Hoaxes, Huawei and chatbots - with Mikko Hyppönen
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Sextorting the US army, and a Touch ID scam
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Google Maps, Fed phishing, and Grinch bots
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Facebook, Nietzsche, Tesla, and Nicole
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The world's most evil phishing test, and cyborgs in the workplace
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An Instagram nightmare, crazy iPhone deaths, and election hack claims
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Ethical dilemmas, Girl Scouts, and porn-loving US officials
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Rule 34, Twitter scams, and Facebook fails
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IoT failures, and Donald Trump dating disaster
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099: Passwords - A Smashing Security splinter (replay)
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098: A Facebook omnishambles
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097: Dash cam surveillance, robocall plague, and Zoho woe
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096: Bribing Amazon staff, and blinking deepfakes
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095: British Airways hack, Mac apps steal browser history, and one person has 28...
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094: Rogue browser extensions, Twitter presence, and how to cheat in exams
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093: Abandoned domains and dating app dangers
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092: Hacky sack hack hack
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091: Sextortion, Las Vegas hotels, and Alex Jones
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090: Fortnite for Android, and the FCC's DDoS BS
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089: Data breaches, ransomware, Bitcoin robberies, and typewriters
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088: PayPal’s Venmo app even makes your drug purchases public
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087: How Russia hacked the US election
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086: Elon Musk submarine scams and 2FA bypass
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085: Doctor Who, Facebook patents, and Bob's Burgers
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