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Burglaries, breaches, and bidets
Episode 169
How one guy's exercise routine made him a burglary suspect, how multi-factor authentication can cause headaches as well as stop hacks, and how Virgin…
6 years, 2 months ago
The Bitcoin fraud factory
Episode 168
Fraudsters steal millions from those hoping to jump on the Bitcoin bandwagon, Twitter verifies a fake US politician, and it's another face palm for f…
6 years, 3 months ago
Coronavirus scams and an exaggerated lion
Episode 167
Scammers from Africa are preying on US businesses, a drug dealer makes a mistake when hiding his Bitcoin fortune, and the Coronavirus pandemic is cau…
6 years, 3 months ago
What the Dickens! Ad ban thank you scam
Episode 166
How to stop dick pics on Twitter, and a new way bad guys are extorting money from websites earning cash from Google ads.
All this and much more is dis…
6 years, 3 months ago
Cheapfakes, deepfakes, and Ashley Madison
Episode 165
Wi-Fi hopping malware, the return of Ashley Madison extortion scams, and should social media be doing anything about cheapfakes?
All this and much muc…
6 years, 3 months ago
A bitter pill to swallow
Episode 164
A gallery is tricked into giving millions to a fraudster, software tells doctors to push opioids onto patients, and an artist finds a novel way to tr…
6 years, 3 months ago
Russian heists and Ring wrongs
Episode 163
Should possessing malware be illegal in itself? How did a Russian cryptocurrency exchange millionaire lose his fortune? And what on earth are Amazon …
6 years, 4 months ago
Robocalls, health hacks, and facial recognition fears
Episode 162
A hospital gets hacked because of an ex-employee's grudge, robocalls are on the rise, and we share a scary story about the future of facial recogniti…
6 years, 4 months ago
Love, lucky dips, and 23andMe
Episode 161
The man who hacked the UK National Lottery didn't end up a winner, Japanese Love hotel booking tool suffers a data breach, and just what is 23andMe p…
6 years, 4 months ago
SNAFUs! MS Word, Amazon Ring, and TikTok
Episode 160
We discuss how Microsoft Word helped trap a multi-million dollar fraudster, how Amazon Ring may be recording more than you're comfortable with, and h…
6 years, 4 months ago