The story of how hackers managed to compromise the US Government's official SEC Twitter account to boost the price of Bitcoins, AI isn't helping reduce the rife conspiracy theories inside classrooms, and is the funeral bell tolling for ransomware?
All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by special guest Jane Wakefield.
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In episode 37 of "The AI Fix", Google Gemini gets the munchies, the wettest country in the world can’t find any water, an escalator tries to eat Graham, o3-mini can’t rub two sticks together, and OpenAI invents an AI that can do “a single-digit percentage of all economically valuable tasks in the world” but nobody notices.
Graham wonders why his childhood was full of Triffids and quicksand, and discovers a way to trap overstepping AI crawlers in an endless maze, while Mark investigates the appalling state of DeepSeek security.
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of "The AI Fix" podcast by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.
North American drivers are continuing to be barraged by waves of scam text messages, telling them that they owe money on unpaid tolls.
Do you know what to tell your friends and family to watch out for?
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
The Taliban government of Afghanistan is reeling after unidentified hackers successfully carried out a massive cyber attack against its computer systems and published over 50GB of stolen documents and files online.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
British legal professionals have seen a "significant surge" in data breaches, according to new research from NetDocuments, a firm that provides a cloud-based content management platform for the legal sector.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
British legal professionals have seen a "significant surge" in data breaches, according to new research from NetDocuments, a firm that provides a cloud-based content management platform for the legal sector. The firm has described how it analysed data from the UK regulator the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), and discovered that the number of data breaches in the country's legal sector had grown by 39% between Q3 2023 and Q2 2024 to 2,284 cases, compared to 1,633 the same period 12 months earlier. Furthermore, the company found that data related to 7.9 million people had been...
Well, this is a different approach to the scam problem...
The government of Thailand has cut the power supply to areas near its border with Myanmar that are known to host brutal scam compounds. These heavily-guarded fraud factories house armies of people, coerced into defrauding innocent people through bogus investment and romance-baiting scams.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
In episode 403 of "Smashing Security" we dive into the mystery of $65 million vanishing from Coinbase users faster than J-Lo slipped into Graham's DMs, Geoff gives a poor grade for PowerSchool's security, and Carole takes a curious look at QR codes.
All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by The Lazarus Heist's Geoff White.
A California man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for his involvement in a fraudulent scheme that saw over 50 individuals and organisations lose millions of dollars.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
A California man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for his involvement in a fraudulent scheme that saw over 50 individuals and organisations lose millions of dollars. 59-year-old Allen Giltman, of Irvine, California, pleaded guilty to charges that he and his co-conspirators built a network of fraudulent websites impersonating legitimate financial institutions. According to a US Department of Justice (DOJ) press release, between 2012 and October 2020, Giltman and others created a series of at least 150 bogus websites that posed as real financial institutions. Websites like...