Podcast Episodes

The hack that messed with time, and rogue ransomware negotiators

Episode 442

Time itself comes under attack as a state-backed hacking gang spends two years tunnelling toward a nation’s master clock — with chaos potentially only a tick away.

Plus when ransomware negotiators tur…

Published on 3 hours ago

Inside the mob's million-dollar poker hack, and a Formula 1 fumble

Episode 441

Basketball stars have allegedly joined forces with the mafia to fleece high-rollers in a poker scam involving hacked shufflers, covert cameras, and an X-ray card table.

Meanwhile, researchers have fou…

Published on 1 week ago

How to hack a prison, and the hidden threat of online checkouts

Episode 440

A literal insider threat: we head to a Romanian prison where “self-service” web kiosks allowed inmates to run wild. Then we head to the checkout aisle to ask why JavaScript on payment pages went fera…

Published on 2 weeks ago

A breach, a burnout, and a bit of Fleetwood Mac

Episode 439

A critical infrastructure hack hits the headlines - involving default passwords, boasts on Telegram, and a finale that will make a few cyber-crooks wish the ground would swallow them whole. 

Meanwhile…

Published on 3 weeks ago

When your mouse turns snitch, and hackers grow a conscience

Episode 438

Your computer's mouse might not be as innocent as it looks - and one ransomware crew has a crisis of conscience that nobody saw coming.

We talk about how something as ordinary as a web page could turn…

Published on 4 weeks ago

Salesforce's trusted domain of doom

Episode 437

Researchers uncovered a security flaw in Salesforce’s shiny new Agentforce. The vulnerability, dubbed "ForcedLeak", let them smuggle AI-read instructions in via humble Web-to-Lead form... and ended u…

Published on 1 month ago

The €600,000 gold heist, powered by ransomware

Episode 436

Ransomware doesn’t just freeze computers - it can silence alarms too. And when the Natural History Museum in Paris went dark, thieves helped themselves to €600,000 worth of gold in a daring late-nigh…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Lights! Camera! Hacktion!

Episode 435

When "bad actors" stop being hackers and start being... actual actors.

This week, Graham and special guest Jenny Radcliffe play “Hacker or Ham?” (yes, Steven Seagal, we’re looking at you), before divi…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Whopper Hackers, and AI Whoppers

Episode 434

Ever wondered what would happen if Burger King left the keys to the kingdom lying around for anyone to use? Ethical hackers did - and uncovered drive-thru recordings, hard-coded passwords, and even t…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

How hackers turned AI into their new henchman

Episode 433

Your AI reads the small print, and that's a problem. This week in episode 433 of "Smashing Security" we dig into LegalPwn - malicious instructions tucked into code comments and disclaimers that sweet…

Published on 2 months ago