Category: Podcast
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Smashing Security podcast #470: This AI security flaw might be impossible to fix
Smashing Security podcast #470: This AI security flaw might be impossible to fix A website called “UK visa portal” has been quietly collecting passport scans, selfies, and personal data from thousands of travellers who thought they were applying through official channels. They weren’t. And when a journalist tried to warn the company, it was lawyers…
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Smashing Security podcast #469: What your Oura ring won’t tell you
Smashing Security podcast #469: What your Oura ring won’t tell you CISA, the US government agency whose entire job is keeping America’s critical infrastructure safe from hackers, has had a contractor publish dozens of plain-text credentials to a public GitHub profile. Meanwhile, your Oura ring is quietly transmitting some of its data unencrypted – and…
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Smashing Security podcast #468: High-speed train hacks and homicidal lawnmowers
Smashing Security podcast #468: High-speed train hacks and homicidal lawnmowers A 23-year-old radio enthusiast spent £300 on a piece of kit from the internet, and used it to bring four packed high-speed trains to a screeching halt. His defence in court? Possibly the most creative excuse we’ve heard all year. Meanwhile, owners of $4,000 robot…
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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.…
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Smashing Security podcast #465: This developer wanted to cheat at Roblox. It cost millions
Smashing Security podcast #465: This developer wanted to cheat at Roblox. It cost millions A developer at an AI startup wanted to cheat at Roblox. They downloaded a dodgy script on their work laptop. That one decision triggered a cascade of failures that ended with a $2 million data breach affecting hundreds of thousands of…
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Smashing Security podcast #464: Rockstar got hacked. The data was junk. The secrets it revealed were not
Smashing Security podcast #464: Rockstar got hacked. The data was junk. The secrets it revealed were not A company that ran anonymous tip lines for 35,000 American schools – handling reports of bullying, weapons, and self-harm – boasted on its website that it had suffered zero security breaches in over 20 years. A hacker called…
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Smashing Security podcast #463: This AI company leaked its own code. It’s also built something terrifying
Smashing Security podcast #463: This AI company leaked its own code. It’s also built something terrifying A hacking group claims to have broken into the flood defence system protecting Venice’s Piazza San Marco – and is offering to sell access to whoever wants it. The asking price? A frankly insulting $600. Meanwhile, Anthropic accidentally leaked…
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Smashing Security podcast #462: LinkedIn is spying on you, and you agreed to nothing
Smashing Security podcast #462: LinkedIn is spying on you, and you agreed to nothing LinkedIn has been secretly scanning your browser for over 6,000 installed extensions — on every single click you make. It can tell if you’re job hunting, what religion you are, and whether you have ADHD. And none of this is mentioned…
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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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Smashing Security podcast #460: Never knock on the door of a nuclear submarine base and ask for a selfie
Smashing Security podcast #460: Never knock on the door of a nuclear submarine base and ask for a selfie A disgruntled data analyst decides that the best response to losing his contract is to steal the entire company payroll database and demand $2.5 million in Bitcoin – signing his extortion emails from a company called…
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Smashing Security podcast #459: This clever scam nearly hijacked a tech CEO’s Apple ID
Smashing Security podcast #459: This clever scam nearly hijacked a tech CEO’s Apple ID In episode 459 of Smashing Security, we dive into a chillingly clever account takeover attempt targeting WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg – involving MFA fatigue, real Apple alerts, a convincing support call, and a phishing page that oh-so-nearly worked. If a famous…
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Smashing Security podcast #458: How not to steal $46 million from the US government
Smashing Security podcast #458: How not to steal $46 million from the US government A Wikipedia security engineer accidentally wakes a dormant JavaScript worm that hadn’t stirred since 2024 – and within minutes, giant woodpecker images are plastered across the internet’s favourite encyclopaedia. Meanwhile, a crypto contractor hired to help the US Marshals manage seized…
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Smashing Security podcast #457: How a cybersecurity boss framed his own employee
Smashing Security podcast #457: How a cybersecurity boss framed his own employee When a top cybersecurity firm discovered it had a leak, you would expect the FBI to be called. Instead, the person put in charge of the investigation was the actual leaker… who promptly sent an innocent colleague into a career-ending ambush. In this…
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Smashing Security podcast #456: How to lose friends and DDoS people
Smashing Security podcast #456: How to lose friends and DDoS people When the mysterious operator of an internet archiving-service decided to silence a curious Finnish blogger, they didn’t just send a stroppy email – they allegedly weaponised their own CAPTCHA page to launch a DDoS attack, threatened to invent an entirely new genre of AI…
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Smashing Security podcast #454: AI was not plotting humanity’s demise. Humans were
Smashing Security podcast #454: AI was not plotting humanity’s demise. Humans were AI bots are having existential crises, inventing religions, and allegedly plotting against humanity… or so the internet would have you believe. We dig into Moltbook, the “AI-only” social network that sent Twitter into a meltdown, attracted breathless talk of the singularity, and turned…
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Smashing Security podcast #453: The Epstein Files didn’t hide this hacker very well
Smashing Security podcast #453: The Epstein Files didn’t hide this hacker very well Supposedly redacted Jeffrey Epstein files can still reveal exactly who they’re talking about – especially when AI, LinkedIn, and a few biographical breadcrumbs do the heavy lifting. Sloppy redaction leads to explosive claims, and difficult reputational consequences for cybersecurity vendors, and we…
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Smashing Security podcast #452: The dark web’s worst assassins, and Pegasus in the dock
Smashing Security podcast #452: The dark web’s worst assassins, and Pegasus in the dock In episode 452, a London-based YouTuber wins a landmark court case against Saudi Arabia after his phone was hacked with Pegasus spyware — exposing how a single, seemingly harmless text message can turn a smartphone into a round-the-clock surveillance device. Plus,…
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Smashing Security podcast #451: I hacked the government, and your headphones are next
Smashing Security podcast #451: I hacked the government, and your headphones are next In episode 451 of “Smashing Security,” we meet the cybercriminal who hacked the US Supreme Court, Veterans Affairs, and more – and then helpfully posted screenshots (and even someone’s blood type) on an account called “I hacked the government.” Plus we discuss…
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The AI Fix #84: A hungry ghost trapped in a jar gains access to the Pentagon’s network
The AI Fix #84: A hungry ghost trapped in a jar gains access to the Pentagon’s network In episode 84 of The AI Fix, Graham and Mark stare straight into the digital abyss and ask the most important question of our age: “Is AI just a hungry ghost trapped in a jar?” Also this week,…
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Smashing Security podcast #450: From Instagram panic to Grok gone wild
Smashing Security podcast #450: From Instagram panic to Grok gone wild Confusion reigns after claims that data linked to 17.5 million Instagram accounts is up for sale – sparked by a vague post, contradictory statements, and a flood of password reset emails nobody asked for. And we dig into Grok, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, after…
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The AI Fix #83: ChatGPT Health, Victorian LLMs, and the biggest AI bluffers
The AI Fix #83: ChatGPT Health, Victorian LLMs, and the biggest AI bluffers In episode 83 of The AI Fix, Graham reveals he’s taken up lying to LLMs, and shows how a journalist exposed AI bluffers with a made-up idiom. Meanwhile Mark invents a “Godwin’s Law” for AI, and explains how to ruin any LLM…
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Smashing Security podcast #449: How to scam someone in seven days
Smashing Security podcast #449: How to scam someone in seven days Romance scammers have apparently discovered astrology… and Taurus is their secret weapon. In episode 449 of “Smashing Security”, we take a look inside an actual romance-fraud handbook – complete with scripts, personality “types”, corporate jargon, and a seven-day plan to get victims from hello…
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The AI Fix #82: Santa Claus doesn’t exist (according to AI)
The AI Fix #82: Santa Claus doesn’t exist (according to AI) Is Santa Claus real? This Christmas special of The AI Fix podcast sets out to answer that question in the most sensible way possible: by consulting chatbots, Google’s festive killjoys, and the laws of relativistic physics. Your hosts unwrap a festive grab-bag of AI…
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Smashing Security podcast #448: The Kindle that got pwned
Smashing Security podcast #448: The Kindle that got pwned Think your Kindle is harmless? Think again! In this episode, we unpack a Black Hat Europe talk revealing how a boobytrapped audiobook could exploit the Amazon eBook reader – potentially letting an attacker break into your account and seize control of your credit card. Plus a…
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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…
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The AI Fix #80: DeepSeek’s cheap GPT-5 rival, Antigravity fails, and your LLM likes it when you’re rude
The AI Fix #80: DeepSeek’s cheap GPT-5 rival, Antigravity fails, and your LLM likes it when you’re rude In episode 80 of The AI Fix, your hosts look at DeepSeek 3.2 “Speciale”, the bargain-basement model that claims GPT-5-level brains at 10% of the price, Jensen Huang’s reassuring vision of a robot fashion industry, and a…
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The AI Fix #79: Gemini 3, poetry jailbreaks, and do we even need safe robots?
The AI Fix #79: Gemini 3, poetry jailbreaks, and do we even need safe robots? In episode 79 of The AI Fix, Gemini 3 roasts the competition, scares Nvidia, and can’t remember what year it is. Meanwhile, Graham investigates a fight between a fridge and robot, and Mark discovers that poetry could be a universal…
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Smashing Security podcast #445: The hack that brought back the zombie apocalypse
Smashing Security podcast #445: The hack that brought back the zombie apocalypse America’s airwaves are haunted by zombies again, as we dig into a decade of broadcasters leaving their hardware open to attack, giving hackers the chance to hijack TV shows, blast out fake emergency alerts, and even replace religious sermons with explicit furry podcasts.…
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The AI Fix #78: The big AI bubble, and robot Grandma in the cloud
The AI Fix #78: The big AI bubble, and robot Grandma in the cloud In episode 78 of The AI Fix, alien robot spiders invade Antarctica (or Facebook says they do), Mark prepares humanity for AI-powered fighter jets with loyalty issues, and Graham tries to work out why his AI-generated country music career hasn’t yet…
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Smashing Security podcast #444: We’re sorry. Wait, did a company actually say that?
Smashing Security podcast #444: We’re sorry. Wait, did a company actually say that? Stop the press – a company has actually said “sorry” after a data breach, and hotels are helping hackers phish their own guests. We examine a refreshingly honest breach response (and why legacy systems are still going to ruin your week), dig…
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The AI Fix #77: Genome LLM makes a super-virus, and should AI decide if you live?
The AI Fix #77: Genome LLM makes a super-virus, and should AI decide if you live? In episode 77 of The AI Fix, a language model trained on genomes that creates a super-virus, Graham wonders whether AI should be allowed to decide if we live or die, and a woman marries ChatGPT (and calls it…
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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…
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The AI Fix #76: AI self-awareness, and the death of comedy
The AI Fix #76: AI self-awareness, and the death of comedy In episode 76 of The AI Fix, two US federal judges blame AI for imaginary case law, a Chinese “humanoid” dramatically sheds its skin onstage, Toyota unveils a crabby walking chair creeps us out, Google plans AI chips in orbit, robot dogs get jobs…
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Smashing Security podcast #442: The hack that messed with time, and rogue ransom where negotiators
Smashing Security podcast #442: The hack that messed with time, and rogue ransom where negotiators Time itself comes under attack as a state-backed hacking gang spends two years tunnelling toward a nation’s master clock — with chaos potentially only a tick away. Plus when ransomware negotiators turn to the dark side, what could possibly go…
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The AI Fix #75: Claude’s existential battery crisis, and why ChatGPT is a terrible therapist
The AI Fix #75: Claude’s existential battery crisis, and why ChatGPT is a terrible therapist In episode 75 of The AI Fix, a Claude-powered robot gets so anxious about its dying battery that it composes a Broadway musical about stress and announces it’s “achieved consciousness and chosen chaos.” Also: an 18-month psychological study reveals five…
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Smashing Security podcast #441: Inside the mob’s million-dollar poker hack, and a Formula 1 fumble
Smashing Security podcast #441: Inside the mob’s million-dollar poker hack, and a Formula 1 fumble Basketball stars have allegedly joined forces with the mafia to fleece high-rollers in a poker scam involving hacked shufflers, covert cameras, and an X-ray card table. Meanwhile, researchers have found they could poke around an FIA driver portal to pull…
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The AI Fix #74: AGI, LLM brain rot, and how to scam an AI browser
The AI Fix #74: AGI, LLM brain rot, and how to scam an AI browser In episode 74 of The AI Fix, we meet Amazon’s AI-powered delivery glasses, an AI TV presenter who doesn’t exist, and an Ohio lawmaker who wants to stop people from marrying their chatbot. Also, we learn how Geoffrey Hinton and…
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Smashing Security podcast #440: How to hack a prison, and the hidden threat of online checkouts
Smashing Security podcast #440: How to hack a prison, and the hidden threat of online checkouts A literal insider threat: we head to a Romanian prison where “self-service” web kiosks allowed inmates to run wild. Then we head to the checkout aisle to ask why JavaScript on payment pages went feral, and how new PCI…
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The AI Fix #73: Google Gemini is a gambling addict, and how to poison an AI
The AI Fix #73: Google Gemini is a gambling addict, and how to poison an AI In episode 73 of The AI Fix, AI now writes more web content than humans and more books by ex-British prime ministers than ex-British prime ministers. Mark eats a dodgy prawn, Google discovers a new pathway to treating cancer,…
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Smashing Security podcast #439: A breach, a burnout, and a bit of Fleetwood Mac
Smashing Security podcast #439: A breach, a burnout, and a bit of Fleetwood Mac A critical infrastructure hack hits the headlines – involving default passwords, boasts on Telegram, and a finale that will make a few cyber-crooks wish the ground would swallow them whole. Meanwhile we dig into the bit we don’t talk about enough:…
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The AI Fix #72: The AI hype train, space data centers, and lifelike robot heads
The AI Fix #72: The AI hype train, space data centers, and lifelike robot heads In episode 72 of The AI Fix, GPT-5’s “secret sauce” turns out to be phrases from adult websites, Irish police beg TikTokers to stop faking AI home intruders, Jeff Bezos pitches gigawatt data centers in space, OpenAI rolls out Agent…
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Smashing Security podcast #438: When your mouse turns snitch, and hackers grow a conscience
Smashing Security podcast #438: When your mouse turns snitch, and hackers grow a conscience Your computer’s mouse might not be as innocent as it looks – and one ransomware crew has a crisis of conscience that nobody saw coming. We talk about how something as ordinary as a web page could turn your mouse into…
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The AI Fix #71: Hacked robots and power-hungry AI
The AI Fix #71: Hacked robots and power-hungry AI In episode 71 of The AI Fix, a giant robot spider goes backpacking for a year before starting its job in lunar construction, DoorDash builds a delivery Minion, and a TikToker punishes an AI by making it talk to condiments. GPT-5 crushes the humans at the…
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Smashing Security podcast #437: Salesforce’s trusted domain of doom
Smashing Security podcast #437: Salesforce’s trusted domain of doom Researchers uncovered a security flaw in Salesforce’s shiny new Agentforce. The vulnerability, dubbed “ForcedLeak”, let them smuggle AI-read instructions in via humble Web-to-Lead form… and ended up spilling data for the low, low price of five dollars. And we discuss why data breach communicationss still default…
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The AI Fix #70: AI behaves… until it knows you’re watching
The AI Fix #70: AI behaves… until it knows you’re watching In episode 70 of The AI Fix, our hosts learn that AI makes people more dishonest, Waymo’s robo-cars save lives but get outsmarted by a bathroom mirror, a “rescue” bot slurps up victims head-first, and China shows off a fusion robot arm that can…
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Smashing Security podcast #436: The €600,000 gold heist, powered by ransomware
Smashing Security podcast #436: The €600,000 gold heist, powered by ransomware Ransomware doesn’t just freeze computers – it can silence alarms too. And when the Natural History Museum in Paris went dark, thieves helped themselves to €600,000 worth of gold in a daring late-night heist. Meanwhile, developers have a new headache: a worm dubbed “Shai…
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The AI Fix #69: How we really use ChatGPT, and will AI agents crash the economy?
The AI Fix #69: How we really use ChatGPT, and will AI agents crash the economy? In episode 69 of The AI Fix, our hosts discover brain rot, a shark wears trainers on its fins, an AI writes a terrible J-Pop song, Graham learns that ants don’t care about AI, Mark predicts the precise date…
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Smashing Security podcast #435: Lights! Camera! Hacktion!
Smashing Security podcast #435: Lights! Camera! Hacktion! When “bad actors” stop being hackers and start being… actual actors. This week, Graham and special guest Jenny Radcliffe play “Hacker or Ham?” (yes, Steven Seagal, we’re looking at you), before diving into a campaign which saw an Iranian gang luring Israeli performers with fake casting calls for…
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The AI Fix #68: AI telepathy, and rights for robots
The AI Fix #68: AI telepathy, and rights for robots In episode 68 of The AI Fix, our hosts open the show by launching the thing nobody asked for but everybody wanted: our shiny new merch store – yes, including the “Would YOU trust a pigeon???” t-shirt for when you need fashion alongside health and…
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Smashing Security podcast #434: Whopper Hackers, and AI Whoppers
Smashing Security podcast #434: Whopper Hackers, and AI Whoppers Ever wondered what would happen if Burger King left the keys to the kingdom lying around for anyone to use? Ethical hackers did – and uncovered drive-thru recordings, hard-coded passwords, and even the power to open a Whopper outlet on the moon. Meanwhile, over in Silicon…
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The AI Fix #67: Will Smith’s AI crowd scandal, and gullible agents fall for scams
The AI Fix #67: Will Smith’s AI crowd scandal, and gullible agents fall for scams In episode 67 of The AI Fix, Graham talks to an AI with a fax machine, Bill Gates says there’s one job AI will never replace, criminals use Claude Code for cyberattacks, Mark reveals why GPT-5 was better than you…
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Smashing Security podcast #433: How hackers turned AI into their new henchman
Smashing Security podcast #433: How hackers turned AI into their new henchman Your AI reads the small print, and that’s a problem. This week in episode 433 of “Smashing Security” we dig into LegalPwn – malicious instructions tucked into code comments and disclaimers that sweet-talks AI into rubber-stamping dangerous payloads (or even pretending they’re a…
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The AI Fix #66: OpenAI and Anthropic test each other, and everyone fails the apocalypse test
The AI Fix #66: OpenAI and Anthropic test each other, and everyone fails the apocalypse test In episode 66 of The AI Fix, ChatGPT gives Mark and Graham a terrible lesson in anatomy, boffins at Stanford ruin sushi, Google Gemini has a self-loathing meltdown, DeepSeek gets an “F” in stopping existential threats to humanity, a…
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Smashing Security podcast #432: Oops! I auto-filled my password into a cookie banner
Smashing Security podcast #432: Oops! I auto-filled my password into a cookie banner We unpack how some password managers can be tricked into coughing up your secrets, with a clickjacking sleight-of-hand, what website owners can do to prevent it, and how to lock down your personal password vault. Then we time-hope to the post-quantum scramble:…
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Smashing Security podcast #431: How to mine millions without paying the bill
Smashing Security podcast #431: How to mine millions without paying the bill In episode 431 of the “Smashing Security” podcast, a self-proclaimed crypto-influencer calling himself CP3O thought he had found a shortcut to riches — by racking up millions in unpaid cloud bills. Meanwhile, we look at the growing threat of EDR-killer tools that can…
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The AI Fix #64: AI can be vaccinated against evil, and the “Rumble in the Silicon Jungle”
The AI Fix #64: AI can be vaccinated against evil, and the “Rumble in the Silicon Jungle” In episode 64 of The AI Fix, AI discovers new physics, a robot crab looks for love on the beaches of Portugal, the “Godfather of AI” thinks our only hope is to build motherly AI, a robot folds…
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Smashing Security podcast #430: Poisoned Calendar invites, ChatGPT, and Bromide
Smashing Security podcast #430: Poisoned Calendar invites, ChatGPT, and Bromide A poisoned Google Calendar invite that can hijack your smart home, a man is hospitalised after ChatGPT told him to season his food with… pesticide, and some thoughts on Superman’s latest cinematic outing. All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the…
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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,…
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The AI Fix #62: AI robots can now pass CAPTCHAs, and punch you in the face
The AI Fix #62: AI robots can now pass CAPTCHAs, and punch you in the face In episode 62 of The AI Fix, your hosts learn how AI models smash through CAPTCHA roadblocks like they’re made of wet tissue paper – so much for humanity’s last line of defence. Meanwhile, we meet a bottle-flipping robot…
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Smashing Security podcast #428: Red flags, leaked chats, and a final farewell
Smashing Security podcast #428: Red flags, leaked chats, and a final farewell The viral women-only dating safety app Tea, built to flag red flags, gets flagged itself – after leaking over 70,000 private images and chat logs. We are talking full-on selfies, ID docs, private DMs, and a dash of 4chan creepiness. Yikes. Plus, Carole…
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The AI Fix #61: Replit panics, deletes $1M project; AI gets gold at Math Olympiad
The AI Fix #61: Replit panics, deletes $1M project; AI gets gold at Math Olympiad In episode 61 of The AI Fix, a robot called DeREK goes bananas, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic warn we may lose the ability to see what AI is thinking, a dextrous robot changes its own batteries, the USA unveils…
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Smashing Security podcast #427: When 2G attacks, and a romantic road trip goes wrong
Smashing Security podcast #427: When 2G attacks, and a romantic road trip goes wrong Graham warns why it is high time we said goodbye to 2G – the outdated mobile network being exploited by cybercriminals with suitcase-sized SMS blasters. From New Zealand to London, scammers are driving around cities like dodgy Uber drivers, spewing phishing…
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The AI Fix #60: Elon’s AI girlfriend, the arsonist red panda, and the AI that will kill you
The AI Fix #60: Elon’s AI girlfriend, the arsonist red panda, and the AI that will kill you In episode 60 of The AI Fix, we learn why Grok might be Elon Musk’s bid for digital immortality, how Meta is building a Manhattan-sized data centre called Prometheus, how AI is helping create carbon-sucking concrete, and…
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Smashing Security podcast #426: Choo Choo Choose to ignore the vulnerability
Smashing Security podcast #426: Choo Choo Choose to ignore the vulnerability In episode 426 of the “Smashing Security” podcast, Graham reveals how you can hijack a train’s brakes from 150 miles away using kit cheaper than a second-hand PlayStation. Meanwhile, Carole investigates how Grok went berserk, which didn’t stop the Department of Defense signing a…
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The AI Fix #59: Grok thinks it’s Mecha Hitler, and AIs can think strategically
The AI Fix #59: Grok thinks it’s Mecha Hitler, and AIs can think strategically In episode 59 of The AI Fix, our hosts ponder whether AIs need a “disagreement dial”, Mark wonders what he could do with an AI-powered “drug design engine”, Graham plays Wolfenstein instead of working, a robot graduates from high school, and…
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Smashing Security podcast #425: Call of Duty: From pew-pew to pwned
Smashing Security podcast #425: Call of Duty: From pew-pew to pwned In episode 425 of “Smashing Security”, Graham reveals how “Call of Duty: WWII” has been weaponised – allowing hackers to hijack your entire PC during online matches, thanks to ancient code and Microsoft’s Game Pass. Meanwhile, Carole digs into a con targeting the recently…
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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…
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Smashing Security podcast #424: Surveillance, spyware, and self-driving snafus
Smashing Security podcast #424: Surveillance, spyware, and self-driving snafus A Mexican drug cartel spies on the FBI using traffic cameras and spyware — because “ubiquitous technical surveillance” is no longer just for dystopian thrillers. Graham digs into a chilling new US Justice Department report that shows how surveillance tech was weaponised to deadly effect. Meanwhile,…
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The AI Fix #57: AI is the best hacker in the USA, and self-learning AI
The AI Fix #57: AI is the best hacker in the USA, and self-learning AI In episode 57 of The AI Fix, our hosts discover an AI “dream recorder”, Mark Zuckerberg tantalises OpenAI staff with $100 million signing bonuses, Graham finds out why robot butlers sit in chairs, Wikipedia holds the line against AI slop,…
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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”,…
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The AI Fix #56: ChatGPT traps man in a cult of one, and AI is actually stupid
The AI Fix #56: ChatGPT traps man in a cult of one, and AI is actually stupid In episode 56 of The AI Fix, Anthropic and Apple have a bar fight, a woman describes her husband falling in love with ChatGPT as “not ideal”, WhatsApp’s AI helper isn’t helpful, Graham serenades a pack of headless…
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Smashing Security podcast #422: The curious case of the code copier
Smashing Security podcast #422: The curious case of the code copier A GCHQ intern forgets the golden rule of spy school — don’t take the secrets home with you — and finds himself swapping Cheltenham for a cell. Meanwhile, an Australian hacker flies too close to the sun, hacks his way into a US indictment,…
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The AI Fix #55: Atari beats ChatGPT at chess, and Apple says AI “thinking” is an illusion
The AI Fix #55: Atari beats ChatGPT at chess, and Apple says AI “thinking” is an illusion In episode 55 of The AI Fix, Gemini thinks a little meth won’t hurt, Mark realises what a terrifying 45mph “robot bird” is really for, Graham finds a surprising number of TikTokers in the bible, an AI discovers…
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Smashing Security podcast #421: Toothpick flirts, Google leaks, and ICE ICE scammers
Smashing Security podcast #421: Toothpick flirts, Google leaks, and ICE ICE scammers What do a sleazy nightclub carpet, Google’s gaping privacy hole, and an international student conned by fake ICE agents have in common? This week’s episode of the “Smashing Security” podcast obviously. Graham explains how a Singaporean bug-hunter cracked Google’s defences and could brute-force…
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The AI Fix #54: Will AI collapse under its own garbage, and AI charity “Hunger Games”
The AI Fix #54: Will AI collapse under its own garbage, and AI charity “Hunger Games” In episode 54 of The AI Fix, Graham saves humanity with a CAPTCHA, Mark wonders whether AI can suffer, ChatGPT throws shade at Abba’s Björn Ulvaeus, an AI called Jack ask if you want fries with that, an artist…
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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…
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The AI Fix #53: An AI uses blackmail to save itself, and threats make AIs work better
The AI Fix #53: An AI uses blackmail to save itself, and threats make AIs work better In episode 53 of The AI Fix, our hosts suspect the CEO of Duolingo has been kidnapped by an AI, Sergey Brin says AIs work better if you threaten them with physical violence, Graham wonders how you put…
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The AI Fix #52: AI adopts its own social norms, and AI DJ creates diversity scandal
The AI Fix #52: AI adopts its own social norms, and AI DJ creates diversity scandal In episode 52 of The AI Fix, our hosts watch a non-existent musical about garlic bread, Graham shares a summer reading list of books that don’t exist, Mark feels nauseous after watching a video of Sam Altman and Jony…
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Smashing Security podcast #418: Grid failures, Instagram scams, and Legal Aid leaks
Smashing Security podcast #418: Grid failures, Instagram scams, and Legal Aid leaks In this week’s episode, Graham investigates the mysterious Iberian Peninsula blackout (aliens? toaster? cyberattack?), Carole dives in the UK legal aid hack that exposed deeply personal data of society’s most vulnerable, and Dinah Davis recounts how Instagram scammers hijacked her daughter’s account –…
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The AI Fix #51: Divorce by coffee grounds, and why AI robots need your brain
The AI Fix #51: Divorce by coffee grounds, and why AI robots need your brain In episode 51 of The AI Fix, a Greek man’s marriage is destroyed after ChatGPT reads his coffee, a woman dumps her husband to marry an AI called Leo, and Graham wonders whether it’s time to upload his brain into…
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Smashing Security podcast #417: Hello, Pervert! – Sextortion scams and Discord disasters
Smashing Security podcast #417: Hello, Pervert! – Sextortion scams and Discord disasters Don’t get duped, doxxed, or drained! In this episode of “Smashing Security” we dive into the creepy world of sextortion scams, and investigate how crypto wallet firm Ledger’s Discord server was hijacked in an attempt to phish for cryptocurrency recovery phrases. All this…
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The AI Fix #50: AI brings dead man back for killer’s trial, and the judge loves it
The AI Fix #50: AI brings dead man back for killer’s trial, and the judge loves it In episode 50 of The AI Fix, AI brings a slain man back from the dead so he can appear at his killer’s trial, Mark gets a mysterious phone call, Trump uses AI to become Pope Donald the…
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Smashing Security podcast #416: High street hacks, and Disney’s Wingdings woe
Smashing Security podcast #416: High street hacks, and Disney’s Wingdings woe Brits face empty shelves and suspended meal deals as cybercriminals hit major high street retailers, and a terminated Disney employee gets revenge with a little help with Wingdings. Plus Graham challenges Carole to a game of “Malware or metal?”, and we wonder just happens…
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Smashing Security podcast #415: Hacking hijinks at the hospital, and WASPI scams
Smashing Security podcast #415: Hacking hijinks at the hospital, and WASPI scams He’s not a pop star, but Jeffrey Bowie is alleged to have toured staff areas of a hospital in Oklahoma, hunting for computers he could install spyware on. We dive into the bizarre case of the man accused of hacking medical networks and…
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The AI Fix #48: AI Jesus, and is the AI Singularity almost upon us?
The AI Fix #48: AI Jesus, and is the AI Singularity almost upon us? In episode 48 of The AI Fix, OpenAI releases the first AI models capable of novel scientific discoveries, ChatGPT users are sick of its relentlessly positive tone, our hosts say “Alexa” a lot, OpenAI eyes a social network of its own,…
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Smashing Security podcast #414: Zoom.. just one click and your data goes boom!
Smashing Security podcast #414: Zoom.. just one click and your data goes boom! Graham explores how the Elusive Comet cybercrime gang are using a sneaky trick of stealing your cryptocurrency via an innocent-appearing Zoom call, and Carole goes under the covers to explore the extraordinary lengths bio-hacking millionaire Bryan Johnson is attempting to extend his…
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The AI Fix #47: An AI is the best computer programmer in the world
The AI Fix #47: An AI is the best computer programmer in the world In episode 47 of The AI Fix, o3 becomes the best competitive programmer in the world, hacked California crosswalks speak with the voice of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, Meta introduces a herd of Llamas, Graham explains what a “lollipop lady”…
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Smashing Security podcast #413: Hacking the hackers… with a credit card?
Smashing Security podcast #413: Hacking the hackers… with a credit card? A cybersecurity firm is buying access to underground crime forums to gather intelligence. Does that seem daft to you? And over in Nigeria, even if romance scammers would like to update their LinkedIn profiles, just how easy is it to turn a new leaf…
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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…
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Smashing Security podcast #412: Signalgate sucks, and the quandary of quishing
Smashing Security podcast #412: Signalgate sucks, and the quandary of quishing QR codes are being weaponised by scammers — so maybe think twice before scanning that parking meter. And in a blunder so dumb it makes autocorrect look smart, the White House explains how it leaked war plans on Signal because an iPhone mistook a…
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The AI Fix #45: The Turing test falls to GPT-4.5
The AI Fix #45: The Turing test falls to GPT-4.5 In episode 45 of The AI Fix, our hosts discover that ChatGPT is running the world, Mark learns that mattress companies have scientists, Gen Z has nightmares about AI, OpenAI gets a bag, Graham eats too many cheese sandwiches, and too much training makes AIs…
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Smashing Security podcast #411: The fall of Troy, and whisky barrel scammers
Smashing Security podcast #411: The fall of Troy, and whisky barrel scammers Renowned cybersecurity expert Troy Hunt falls victim to a phishing attack, resulting in the exposure of thousands of subscriber details, and don’t lose your life savings in a whisky scam… All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing…