Category: football
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Smashing Security podcast #473: How a hacker could have Rickrolled the entire World Cup
Smashing Security podcast #473: How a hacker could have Rickrolled the entire World Cup A polite caller from your bank says there is a problem with your account. Don’t worry – they’ll send someone round to help. They’ll even take your cards away to keep them safe. The scam has run rampant, until Dutch police…
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Privacy own-goal: World Cup blunder leaks Lionel Messi’s passport details
Privacy own-goal: World Cup blunder leaks Lionel Messi’s passport details Argentina’s World Cup squad had their passport numbers leaked before a ball was kicked – not by hackers, but by someone who failed to redact a document properly. document. It’s a mistake that has been made many times in the past… Read more in my…
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Police arrest man following hack of Ajax football club
Police arrest man following hack of Ajax football club Dutch police have arrested a 35-year-old man suspected of hacking into the computer systems of Amsterdam football giant Ajax, after the personal data of hundreds of thousands of supporters was put at risk. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Graham Cluley…
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Smashing Security podcast #461: This man hid $400 million in a fishing rod. Then it vanished
Smashing Security podcast #461: This man hid $400 million in a fishing rod. Then it vanished A cannabis-growing, beekeeping, gyrocopter-flying Irishman invested his drug money in Bitcoin back in 2011 – and now sits on a fortune worth $400 million. There’s just one small problem: the access codes were tucked inside his fishing rod case,…
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The AI Fix #58: An AI runs a shop into the ground, and AI’s obsession with the number 27
The AI Fix #58: An AI runs a shop into the ground, and AI’s obsession with the number 27 In episode 58 of “The AI Fix” podcast, our hosts discover a pair of AI headphones that don’t electrocute you, Microsoft invents “medical superintelligence”, Chucky opens a hotel, some robot footballers fall over, Jony Ive invents…