{"id":5590,"date":"2025-07-24T02:04:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T02:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/24\/smashing-security-podcast-427-when-2g-attacks-and-a-romantic-road-trip-goes-wrong\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T02:04:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T02:04:42","slug":"smashing-security-podcast-427-when-2g-attacks-and-a-romantic-road-trip-goes-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/24\/smashing-security-podcast-427-when-2g-attacks-and-a-romantic-road-trip-goes-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Smashing Security podcast #427: When 2G attacks, and a romantic road trip goes wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Smashing Security podcast #427: When 2G attacks, and a romantic road trip goes wrong<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Graham warns why it is high time we said goodbye to 2G &#8211; the outdated mobile network being exploited by cybercriminals with suitcase-sized SMS blasters.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 texts to thousands at once.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Carole unpacks a painfully awkward tale of amour fou, as a 76-year-old Belgian man drives 476 miles to meet his dream woman&#8230; only to be greeted by her very-much-still-husband at the gate.<\/p>\n<p>Plus: Sky Arts painting competitions get a thumbs up, Mark Zuckerberg never loses at board games, and the scandalous Facebook memoir Meta tried to silence.<\/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-427\/\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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When 2G attacks, and a romantic road trip goes wrong Graham warns why it is high time we said goodbye to 2G &#8211; the outdated mobile network being exploited by cybercriminals with suitcase-sized SMS blasters.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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1608,509,1609,54,277,164,275,124,166,1610,313,175,300],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-5590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2g","category-android","category-cell-tower","category-grahamcluley","category-ios","category-law-order","category-mobile","category-phishing","category-podcast","category-romance-scam","category-scam","category-smashing-security","category-spam","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5590"}],"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=5590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}