{"id":9909,"date":"2026-01-16T02:03:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/16\/smashing-security-podcast-450-from-instagram-panic-to-grok-gone-wild\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T02:03:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:03:42","slug":"smashing-security-podcast-450-from-instagram-panic-to-grok-gone-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/16\/smashing-security-podcast-450-from-instagram-panic-to-grok-gone-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Smashing Security podcast #450: From Instagram panic to Grok gone wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Smashing Security podcast #450: From Instagram panic to Grok gone wild<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Confusion reigns after claims that data linked to 17.5 million Instagram accounts is up for sale &#8211; sparked by a vague post, contradictory statements, and a flood of password reset emails nobody asked for.<\/p>\n<p>And we dig into Grok, Elon Musk\u2019s AI chatbot, after it started generating sexualised images of women and children &#8211; raising uncomfortable questions about guardrails, accountability, and why playing the censorship card doesn\u2019t make the problem go away.<\/p>\n<p>All this, and much more, in episode 450 of the &#8220;Smashing Security&#8221; podcast with Graham Cluley, and special guest Monica Verma.<\/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-450\/\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211; sparked by a vague post, contradictory statements, and a flood of password reset emails nobody asked for. And we dig into Grok, Elon Musk\u2019s AI chatbot, after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167,266,284,54,565,397,2241,2242,166,175,769],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-9909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-artificial-intelligence","category-elon-musk","category-grahamcluley","category-grok","category-instagram","category-malwarebytes","category-password-reset","category-podcast","category-smashing-security","category-twitter","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9909"}],"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=9909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}