Hmm. Remembering 1985, when I bought this godawful single…
Doctor Who feels like it is returning to the wilderness years… which may be the best thing for it for a while.
Thanks to @shehackspurple.bsky.social for joining the podcast this week.
Amongst other topics, we discussed a paper from Cornell that suggests prompt injection - the technique malicious actors use to trick AI agents into doing things they really shouldn't - may be fundamentally unsolvable.
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All this, and more, in episode 470 of the "Smashing Security" podcast. Find it in all good podcast apps, or at grahamcluley.com/smashing-sec...
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New aftershave in Lidl: gives you the precise aroma of a widowed policeman investigating the murder of his daughter, drawn into a wide-ranging political conspiracy involving nuclear weapons.
The fab @hacks4pancakes.com pays a visit to the "Smashing Security" podcast in episode 469, to discuss how the Oura ring fitness tracker transmits unencrypted data... but the company can't say how often it shares it with law enforcement
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Hackers have been hijacking Instagram accounts at scale by exploiting Meta's AI support chatbot. And, as if that weren't bad enough, the technique required no technical skill whatsoever.
Read more in my article on the Fortra blog: www.fortra.com/blog/metas-o...
A notorious ransomware gang claims to have stolen MyPillow's private data, but CEO Mike Lindell calls it a politically motivated "hit job." With the countdown ticking toward a massive dark web leak, who is telling the truth?
www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/h...
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Which is err... awkward, because everyone is rushing to plug AI agents into their email, files, and corporate networks.
Plus don't miss our featured interview about how hackers can lock your entire organisation out of its Microsoft 365 environment.
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Schools are soft targets for cybercriminals. They hold sensitive data on children, run on tight budgets, and often depend on networked systems for everything from teaching to unlocking the front door.
www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/h...
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Schools on both sides of the Atlantic have been revealed in recent days to have been hit by hackers, reminding all of us that ransomware gangs see educational instituions as targets all year round.
If you've ever received an out-of-the-blue message via LinkedIn from a recruiter offering some well-paid consultancy work, MI5 and the FBI have a message for you: be very careful - it might be China trying to recruit you.
Read more: www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/h...
