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How ShinyHunters hacked the world's biggest universities
Episode 467
Welcome to the largest educational data breach in history - affecting nearly 9,000 institutions, every Ivy League university, and 30 million students…
2 months, 1 week ago
Meta sees everything, Copy Fail, and a deepfake gets hired
Episode 466
Meta's smart glasses promise privacy "designed for you" - but everything they record was being beamed off to workers in Nairobi to label by hand. Whe…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
This developer wanted to cheat at Roblox. It cost millions
Episode 465
A developer at an AI startup wanted to cheat at Roblox. They downloaded a dodgy script on their work laptop. That one decision triggered a cascade of…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Rockstar got hacked. The data was junk. The secrets it revealed were not
Episode 464
A company that ran anonymous tip lines for 35,000 American schools - handling reports of bullying, weapons, and self-harm - boasted on its website th…
3 months ago
This AI company leaked its own code. It's also built something terrifying
Episode 463
A hacking group claims to have broken into the flood defence system protecting Venice's Piazza San Marco - and is offering to sell access to whoever …
3 months, 1 week ago
LinkedIn is spying on you, and you agreed to nothing
Episode 462
LinkedIn has been secretly scanning your browser for over 6,000 installed extensions — on every single click you make. It can tell if you're job hunt…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
This man hid $400 million in a fishing rod. Then it vanished
Episode 461
A cannabis-growing, beekeeping, gyrocopter-flying Irishman invested his drug money in Bitcoin back in 2011 - and now sits on a fortune worth $400 mil…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Never knock on the door of a nuclear submarine base and ask for a selfie
Episode 460
A disgruntled data analyst decides that the best response to losing his contract is to steal the entire company payroll database and demand $2.5 mill…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
This clever scam nearly hijacked a tech CEO's Apple ID
Episode 459
In episode 459 of Smashing Security, we dive into a chillingly clever account takeover attempt targeting WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg - involv…
4 months ago
How not to steal $46 million from the US government
Episode 458
A Wikipedia security engineer accidentally wakes a dormant JavaScript worm that hadn't stirred since 2024 - and within minutes, giant woodpecker imag…
4 months, 1 week ago