These researchers got drunk to hack an LG TV
Researchers wanted to test if LG's smart TVs come with any security risks - but their lawyers noticed a snag: the terms and conditions would...
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Join computer security industry veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault as they chat about cybercrime, hacking and online privacy. Follow the podcast on Twitter at @SmashinSecurity. New...
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How websites are tracking you with silence
When a chap called Matt noticed his Bluetooth headphones wouldn't switch to his phone, he was surprised to realise the reason was a single A...
This AI helps thieves steal your iPhone
You've had your iPhone stolen. A day later, you get a text from Apple saying they've found it, and a very helpful woman called Alice from Ap...
This hacker leaked GTA 6 - and launched their own cryptocurrency
A hacker calling themselves "CYBERLEEK" has been leaking gameplay footage from GTA 6 ahead of its official reveal this week - but they're no...
Never say this to a robot dog
At Black Hat this month, a group of security researchers took a $9,000 robot dog, plugged Google's AI into its brain, and jailbroke it by te...
This is the AI service you should never sign up to
Would you like access to Anthropic's Claude at 90% off the normal price? All you have to do is redirect your traffic to a mysterious service...
How a fake police officer nearly stole Graham's cryptocurrency
Graham gets a phone call from the police. Well, someone who sounds convincingly like the police. There's just one small problem: what they r...
This job interview could destroy your company
You've been headhunted for a great job in cryptocurrency. All you have to do is complete a short online assessment - with your webcam on, of...
How 14 orders of chicken McNuggets helped nail a suspected Russian hacker
A Russian intelligence-linked hacker is arrested in Thailand while enjoying a beach holiday - and the trail of evidence that nailed him to t...
Remote-control rickshaws and rogue book marketers
An app has appeared in India that lets anyone with a smartphone stop a passing e-rickshaw dead in its tracks - no login, no passwords, no pe...
JadePuffer - the AI that ran a ransomware attack all by itself
A 15-year-old boy asked a chatbot for help - and cancelled nearly 47,000 anime streaming subscriptions in under four hours. Meanwhile, resea...
Polymarket can predict the future. So how did it miss this hack?
Polymarket has built an entire business on predicting the future. So how did it manage to spectacularly fail to predict its own hack? Plus,...
How a hacker could have Rickrolled the entire World Cup
A polite caller from your bank says there is a problem with your account. Don't worry - they'll send someone round to help. They'll even tak...
AI gets hacked, and BitLocker gets bypassed
What if your AI coding assistant could be tricked into stealing your own company's secrets - by reading a single booby-trapped bug report? N...
This AI worm just rewrote its own rules
Researchers at the University of Toronto have built a worm that thinks for itself. Using free off-the-shelf AI models it works out how to br...
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 th...
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...
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 scree...
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...
Meta sees everything, Copy Fail, and a deepfake gets hired
Meta's smart glasses promise privacy "designed for you" - but everything they record was being beamed off to workers in Nairobi to label by...