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  • Smashing Security podcast #467: How ShinyHunters hacked the world’s biggest universities

    Smashing Security podcast #467: How ShinyHunters hacked the world’s biggest universities Welcome to the largest educational data breach in history – affecting nearly 9,000 institutions, every Ivy League university, and 30 million students mid-finals. When Canvas’s parent company refused to pay and announced they had deployed “security patches” instead, the hackers were less than impressed.…

  • Smashing Security podcast #466: Meta sees everything, Copy Fail, and a deepfake gets hired

    Smashing Security podcast #466: Meta sees everything, Copy Fail, and a deepfake gets hired Meta’s smart glasses promise privacy “designed for you” – but everything they record was being beamed off to workers in Nairobi to label by hand. When those workers blew the whistle, Meta sacked all 1,108 of them. Meanwhile, the IT press…

  • The AI Fix #81: ChatGPT is the last AI you’ll understand, and your teacher is a deepfake

    The AI Fix #81: ChatGPT is the last AI you’ll understand, and your teacher is a deepfake In episode 81 of The AI Fix, Graham discovers that deepfakes are already marking your kids’ homework, while Mark glimpses the future when he discovers AI agents that can communicate by reading each other’s minds. Also in this…

  • FBI Warns of Fake Video Scams

    FBI Warns of Fake Video Scams The FBI is warning of AI-assisted fake kidnapping scams: Criminal actors typically will contact their victims through text message claiming they have kidnapped their loved one and demand a ransom be paid for their release. Oftentimes, the criminal actor will express significant claims of violence towards the loved one…

  • Smashing Security podcast #443: Tinder’s camera roll and the Buffett deepfake

    Smashing Security podcast #443: Tinder’s camera roll and the Buffett deepfake Tinder has got a plan to rummage through your camera roll, and Warren Buffett keeps popping up in convincing deepfakes dishing “number one investment tips.” Meanwhile, will agentic AI replace your co-hosts before you can say “EDR for robots”? and why you should still…

  • AI-Enabled Influence Operation Against Iran

    AI-Enabled Influence Operation Against Iran Citizen Lab has uncovered a coordinated AI-enabled influence operation against the Iranian government, probably conducted by Israel. Key Findings A coordinated network of more than 50 inauthentic X profiles is conducting an AI-enabled influence operation. The network, which we refer to as “PRISONBREAK,” is spreading narratives inciting Iranian audiences to…

  • The AI Fix #63: GPT-5 is the best AI ever, and Jim Acosta interviews a murdered teenager’s avatar

    The AI Fix #63: GPT-5 is the best AI ever, and Jim Acosta interviews a murdered teenager’s avatar In episode 63 of The AI Fix, Unitree Robotics looks to Black Mirror episode “Metalhead” for tips on marketing its new robot dog, ChatGPT is secretly running Sweden, OpenAI introduces its first open weight model since GPT-2,…

  • Smashing Security podcast #423: Operation Endgame, deepfakes, and dead slugs

    Smashing Security podcast #423: Operation Endgame, deepfakes, and dead slugs In this episode of the “Smashing Security” podcast, Graham unravels Operation Endgame – the surprisingly stylish police crackdown that is seizing botnets, mocking malware authors with anime videos, and taunting cybercriminals via Telegram. And BBC cyber correspondent Joe Tidy joins us to talk about “Ctrl-Alt-Chaos”,…

  • Smashing Security podcast #420: Fake Susies, flawed systems, and fruity fixes for anxiety

    Smashing Security podcast #420: Fake Susies, flawed systems, and fruity fixes for anxiety A bizarre case of political impersonation, where Trump’s top aide Susie Wiles is cloned (digitally, not biologically — we think), and high-ranking Republicans start getting invitations to link up with “her” on Telegram to share their Trump pardon wishlists. Was it a…

  • Another Move in the Deepfake Creation/Detection Arms Race

    Another Move in the Deepfake Creation/Detection Arms Race Deepfakes are now mimicking heartbeats In a nutshell Recent research reveals that high-quality deepfakes unintentionally retain the heartbeat patterns from their source videos, undermining traditional detection methods that relied on detecting subtle skin color changes linked to heartbeats. The assumption that deepfakes lack physiological signals, such as…

  • The AI Fix #46: AI can read minds now, and is your co-host a clone?

    The AI Fix #46: AI can read minds now, and is your co-host a clone? In episode 46 of The AI Fix, China trolls US tariffs, a microscopic pogoing flea-bot makes a tiny leap forward for robotics, Google unveils the Agent2Agent protocol, a robot dog is so cute it ruins Graham’s entire day, and Europe…

  • Deepfakes and the 2024 US Election

    Deepfakes and the 2024 US Election Interesting analysis: We analyzed every instance of AI use in elections collected by the WIRED AI Elections Project (source for our analysis), which tracked known uses of AI for creating political content during elections taking place in 2024 worldwide. In each case, we identified what AI was used for…

  • The AI Fix #34: Fake Brad Pitt and why AI means we will lose our jobs

    The AI Fix #34: Fake Brad Pitt and why AI means we will lose our jobs In episode 34 of The AI Fix, our hosts watch in horror as a vacuum cleaner sprouts a robotic arm and legs, a rivet embedded in the side of your head claims it will be able to read your…

  • No, Brad Pitt isn’t in love with you

    No, Brad Pitt isn’t in love with you No, Brad Pitt isn’t in love with you. A French woman was duped into believing a hospitalised Brad Pitt had fallen in love with her. The scammers even faked a “breaking news” report announcing the revelation of Brad’s new love… Read more in my article on the…