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Microsoft’s Recall controversy, and the North Korean insider threat
Microsoft’s Recall controversy, and the North Korean insider threat

Episode 374

Microsoft gets itself into a pickle with a privacy-popping new feature on its CoPilot+ PCs, the FTC warns of impersonated companies, and is your comp…

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iPhone undeleted photos, and stealing Scarlett Johansson’s voice
iPhone undeleted photos, and stealing Scarlett Johansson’s voice

Episode 373

iPhone photos come back from the dead! Scarlett Johansson sounds upset about GPT-4o, and there's a cockup involving celebrity fakes.

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The fake deepfake, and Estate insecurity
The fake deepfake, and Estate insecurity

Episode 372

Remember when a US mother was accused of distributing explicit deepfake photos and videos to try to get her teenage daughter's cheerleading rivals ki…

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Unmasking LockBitsupp, company extortion, and a Tinder fraudster
Unmasking LockBitsupp, company extortion, and a Tinder fraudster

Episode 371

The kingpin of the LockBit ransomware is named and sanctioned, a cybersecurity consultant is charged with a $1.5 million extortion, and a romance fra…

1 year, 11 months ago

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The closed loop conundrum, default passwords, and Baby Reindeer
The closed loop conundrum, default passwords, and Baby Reindeer

Episode 370

The UK Government takes aim at IoT devices shipping with weak or default passwords, a man spends two years incarcerated after being mistaken for the …

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Keeping the lights on after a ransomware attack
Keeping the lights on after a ransomware attack

Episode 369

Leicester City Council suffers a crippling ransomware attack, and a massive data breach, but is it out of the dark yet? And as election fever hits In…

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Gary Barlow, and a scam turns deadly
Gary Barlow, and a scam turns deadly

Episode 368

Take That's Gary Barlow chats up a pizza-slinging granny from Essex via Facebook, or does he? And a scam takes a sinister turn - for both the person…

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WhatsApp at Westminster, unhealthy AI, and Drew Barrymore
WhatsApp at Westminster, unhealthy AI, and Drew Barrymore

Episode 367

MPs aren't just getting excited about an upcoming election, but also the fruity WhatsApp messages they're receiving, can we trust AI with our health,…

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Money-making bots, and Incognito isn’t private
Money-making bots, and Incognito isn’t private

Episode 366

Google says it is deleting your Google Chrome Incognito private-browsing data that it should never have collected anyway. Can a zero-risk millionaire…

2 years ago

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Hacking hotels, Google’s AI goof, and cyberflashing
Hacking hotels, Google’s AI goof, and cyberflashing

Episode 365

Security researchers find a way to unlock millions of hotel rooms, the UK introduces cyberflashing laws, and Google's AI search pushes malware and sc…

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