{"id":13020,"date":"2026-05-21T02:03:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T02:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/smashing-security-podcast-468-high-speed-train-hacks-and-homicidal-lawnmowers\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T02:03:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T02:03:29","slug":"smashing-security-podcast-468-high-speed-train-hacks-and-homicidal-lawnmowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/smashing-security-podcast-468-high-speed-train-hacks-and-homicidal-lawnmowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Smashing Security podcast #468: High-speed train hacks and homicidal lawnmowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Smashing Security podcast #468: High-speed train hacks and homicidal lawnmowers<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A 23-year-old radio enthusiast spent \u00a3300 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&#8217;ve heard all year.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, owners of $4,000 robot lawnmowers are discovering that their gadget can be hijacked over the internet, redirected at journalists who foolishly lie down in front of it, and used to harvest Wi-Fi passwords, email addresses, and GPS coordinates. Change the default password? Sure &#8211; until the next firmware update silently resets it back.<\/p>\n<p>Plus &#8211; don&#8217;t miss our featured interview with XBOW&#8217;s Brendan Dolan-Gavitt about how AI is transforming penetration testing.<\/p>\n<p>All this and more in episode 468 of the &#8220;Smashing Security&#8221; podcast with cybersecurity expert and keynote speaker Graham Cluley, and special guest Geoff White.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Graham Cluley<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/grahamcluley.com\/smashing-security-podcast-468\/\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smashing Security podcast #468: High-speed train hacks and homicidal lawnmowers A 23-year-old radio enthusiast spent \u00a3300 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&#8217;ve heard all year. Meanwhile, owners of $4,000 robot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167,266,54,166,168,175,998,1576,131],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-13020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-artificial-intelligence","category-grahamcluley","category-podcast","category-robot","category-smashing-security","category-taiwan","category-train","category-vulnerability","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}