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Smashing Securityby Graham Cluley4d ago
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...
Smashing Securityby Graham Cluley11d ago
Would you like access to Anthropic's Claude at 90% off the normal price? All you have to do is redirect your traffic to a mysterious service called "Poison Claude".
Smashing Securityby Graham Cluley18d ago
Graham gets a phone call from the police. Well, someone who sounds convincingly like the police. There's just one small problem: what they really want is the 24-word seed key to Graham's...
Smashing Securityby Graham Cluley25d ago
You've been headhunted for a great job in cryptocurrency. All you have to do is complete a short online assessment - with your webcam on, of course, so they can verify who you really are.
Smashing Securityby Graham Cluley22 Jul 2026
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...
Smashing Securityby Graham Cluley15 Jul 2026
An app has appeared in India that lets anyone with a smartphone stop a passing e-rickshaw dead in its tracks - no login, no passwords, no permissions needed.
Smashing Securityby Graham Cluley1 Jul 2026
Polymarket has built an entire business on predicting the future. So how did it manage to spectacularly fail to predict its own hack?
Smashing Securityby Graham Cluley24 Jun 2026
A polite caller from your bank says there is a problem with your account. Don't worry - they'll send someone round to help. They'll even take your cards away to keep them safe.
Smashing Securityby Graham Cluley17 Jun 2026
What if your AI coding assistant could be tricked into stealing your own company's secrets - by reading a single booby-trapped bug report? No phishing email. No malware. No password ever stolen.
Smashing Securityby Graham Cluley10 Jun 2026
Researchers at the University of Toronto have built a worm that thinks for itself. Using free off-the-shelf AI models it works out how to break into each new computer it encounters, and hijacks the...
Smashing Securityby Graham Cluley3 Jun 2026
A website called "UK visa portal" has been quietly collecting passport scans, selfies, and personal data from thousands of travellers who thought they were applying through official channels.
Smashing Securityby Graham Cluley27 May 2026
CISA, the US government agency whose entire job is keeping America's critical infrastructure safe from hackers, has had a contractor publish dozens of plain-text credentials to a public GitHub...
Smashing Securityby Graham Cluley20 May 2026
A 23-year-old radio enthusiast spent £300 on a piece of kit from the internet, and used it to bring four packed high-speed trains to a screeching halt. His defence in court?
Smashing Securityby Graham Cluley13 May 2026
Welcome to the largest educational data breach in history - affecting nearly 9,000 institutions, every Ivy League university, and 30 million students mid-finals.
Smashing Securityby Graham Cluley6 May 2026
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.
Smashing Securityby Graham Cluley29 Apr 2026
A developer at an AI startup wanted to cheat at Roblox. They downloaded a dodgy script on their work laptop.
Smashing Securityby Graham Cluley22 Apr 2026
A company that ran anonymous tip lines for 35,000 American schools - handling reports of bullying, weapons, and self-harm - boasted on its website that it had suffered zero security breaches in...
Smashing Securityby Graham Cluley15 Apr 2026
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 wants it. The asking price?
Smashing Securityby Graham Cluley8 Apr 2026
LinkedIn has been secretly scanning your browser for over 6,000 installed extensions — on every single click you make.
Smashing Securityby Graham Cluley1 Apr 2026
A cannabis-growing, beekeeping, gyrocopter-flying Irishman invested his drug money in Bitcoin back in 2011 - and now sits on a fortune worth $400 million.
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