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Private nights, evil twins, and crypto home invasions
Episode 379
Apps can let you spy on strangers in bars, a gang of cryptocurrency thieves turns to kidnap and assault, and have you joined the mile-high evil twin …
2 years ago
Julian Assange, inside a DDoS attack, and deepfake traumas
Episode 378
Wikileaks's Julian Assange is a free man, deepfakes cause trouble in the playground, and we hear hot takes about ransomware and tales from inside a d…
2 years ago
An unhealthy data dump, railway surveillance, and a cheater sues Apple
Episode 377
There's a wee data breach with unhealthy implications in Scotland, privacy has gone off the rails in the UK, and a cheater blames Apple for his expen…
2 years, 1 month ago
iOS 18 for cheaters, and a model cop extortionist?
Episode 376
Apple announces a new privacy feature in iOS that will allow you to hide and lock away your apps - but will it be philanderers who benefit the most? …
2 years, 1 month ago
Crashing robo-taxis, and name-dropping rappers
Episode 375
Drones, some coloured cardboard, and a piece of tinfoil may be all the kit you need to crash a robot-driven taxi, and a rapper is accused of using Ju…
2 years, 1 month ago
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…
2 years, 1 month ago
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.
All this and much…
2 years, 2 months ago
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…
2 years, 2 months ago
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…
2 years, 2 months ago
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 …
2 years, 2 months ago