A Russian intelligence-linked hacker is arrested in Thailand while enjoying a beach holiday – and the trail of evidence that ...

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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. The scam has run ...

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Twitter this afternoon that he was chairing the first ever digital Cabinet, while he self-isolated himself at Downing Street after revealing he was ...

In episode 459 of Smashing Security, we dive into a chillingly clever account takeover attempt targeting WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg – involving MFA fatigue, real Apple alerts, a convincing ...

A teenage cybercriminal posts a smug screenshot to mock a sextortion scammer… and accidentally hands over the keys to his real-world identity. Meanwhile, we look into the crystal ball for 2026 and ...

Microsoft gets itself into a pickle with a privacy-popping new feature on its CoPilot+ PCs, the FTC warns of impersonated companies, and is your company hiring North Korean IT workers? All this and ...

A Wikipedia security engineer accidentally wakes a dormant JavaScript worm that hadn’t stirred since 2024 – and within minutes, giant woodpecker images are plastered across the internet’s favourite ...

Supposedly redacted Jeffrey Epstein files can still reveal exactly who they’re talking about – especially when AI, LinkedIn, and a few biographical breadcrumbs do the heavy lifting. Sloppy redaction ...

Welcome to the largest educational data breach in history – affecting nearly 9,000 institutions, every Ivy League university, and 30 million students mid-finals. When Canvas’s parent company refused ...

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 50 of The AI Fix, AI brings a slain man back from the dead so he can appear at his killer’s trial, Mark gets a mysterious phone call, Trump uses AI to become Pope Donald the First, Zuck ...