Researchers wanted to test if LG’s smart TVs come with any security risks – but their lawyers noticed a snag: the terms and ...

One of the world’s largest online travel agencies, Booking.com, is being used by fraudsters to trick hotel guests into handing over their payment card details. How do I know? The fraudsters tried it ...

You’ve had your iPhone stolen. A day later, you get a text from Apple saying they’ve found it, and a very helpful woman called Alice from Apple Support calls to walk you through recovering it. She’s ...

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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 million in Bitcoin – signing his extortion emails from ...

A Russian intelligence-linked hacker is arrested in Thailand while enjoying a beach holiday – and the trail of evidence that nailed him to the Russian government includes 14 separate orders of chicken ...

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 failures that ended with a $2 million data breach ...

In episode 452, a London-based YouTuber wins a landmark court case against Saudi Arabia after his phone was hacked with Pegasus spyware — exposing how a single, seemingly harmless text message can ...

At Black Hat this month, a group of security researchers took a $9,000 robot dog, plugged Google’s AI into its brain, and jailbroke it by telling it – with a completely straight face – that it was a ...

A hacker calling themselves “CYBERLEEK” has been leaking gameplay footage from GTA 6 ahead of its official reveal this week – but they’re not asking Rockstar Games for a ransom. Instead, they’ve ...

In episode 21 of “The AI Fix”, Mark and Graham comfort themselves with a limbless AI pet as they learn about a terrifying robot dog with a flamethrower, fission-powered data centres, AI suicide pods, ...

When a top cybersecurity firm discovered it had a leak, you would expect the FBI to be called. Instead, the person put in charge of the investigation was the actual leaker… who promptly sent an ...