{"id":5067,"date":"2025-07-03T02:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T02:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/03\/smashing-security-podcast-424-surveillance-spyware-and-self-driving-snafus\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T02:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T02:07:11","slug":"smashing-security-podcast-424-surveillance-spyware-and-self-driving-snafus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/03\/smashing-security-podcast-424-surveillance-spyware-and-self-driving-snafus\/","title":{"rendered":"Smashing Security podcast #424: Surveillance, spyware, and self-driving snafus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Smashing Security podcast #424: Surveillance, spyware, and self-driving snafus<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A Mexican drug cartel spies on the FBI using traffic cameras and spyware \u2014 because &#8220;ubiquitous technical surveillance\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Carole checks the rear-view mirror on the driverless car industry. Whatever happened to those million Tesla robotaxis Elon Musk promised by 2020? Spoiler: they\u2019re here \u2014 sort of \u2014 but they sometimes drive into oncoming traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Plus: Leighton House, heatwave survival gadgets, and an unflushable toilet situation (not what you think).<\/p>\n<p>All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the &#8220;Smashing Security&#8221; podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.<\/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-424\/\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smashing Security podcast #424: Surveillance, spyware, and self-driving snafus A Mexican drug cartel spies on the FBI using traffic cameras and spyware \u2014 because &#8220;ubiquitous technical surveillance\u201d 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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1474,573,54,164,1466,1467,275,166,83,253,288],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-5067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car","category-fbi","category-grahamcluley","category-law-order","category-location-tracking","category-mexico","category-mobile","category-podcast","category-privacy","category-spyware","category-tesla","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5067"}],"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=5067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}