Smashing Security
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Smashing Security

by Graham Cluley

Stories from the world of hacking, cybersecurity, and rogue AI.
Smashing Security isn’t your typical tech podcast. Hosted by cybersecurity veteran Graham Cluley, it serves up weekly tales of cybercrime, hacking horror stories, privacy blunders, and tech mishaps - all with sharp insight, a sense of humour, and zero tolerance for tech waffle.
Winner of the best and most entertaining cybersecurity podcast awards in 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, and 2024, Smashing Security has had over ten million downloads. Past guests include Garry Kasparov, Mikko Hyppönen, and Jack Rhysider.
Follow the podcast on Bluesky at @smashingsecurity.com ( https://bsky.app/profile/smashingsecurity.com ) , and subscribe for free in your favourite podcast app.
New episodes released at 7pm EST every Wednesday (midnight UK).

101 episodes
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1
This clever scam nearly hijacked a tech CEO's Apple ID
54:43 Mar 19, 2026
2
How not to steal $46 million from the US government
41:16 Mar 12, 2026
3
How a cybersecurity boss framed his own employee
49:31 Mar 5, 2026
4
How to lose friends and DDoS people
48:43 Feb 26, 2026
5
Face off: Meta’s Glasses and America’s internet kill switch
44:53 Feb 19, 2026
6
AI was not plotting humanity’s demise. Humans were
40:19 Feb 12, 2026
7
The Epstein Files didn’t hide this hacker very well
36:38 Feb 5, 2026
8
The dark web's worst assassins, and Pegasus in the dock
45:37 Jan 29, 2026
9
I hacked the government, and your headphones are next
45:15 Jan 22, 2026
10
From Instagram panic to Grok gone wild
36:30 Jan 15, 2026
11
How to scam someone in seven days
1:01:10 Jan 8, 2026
12
The Kindle that got pwned
36:41 Dec 18, 2025
13
Grok the stalker, the Louvre heist, and Microsoft 365 mayhem
55:38 Dec 11, 2025
14
A hacker doxxes himself, and social engineering-as-a-service
44:32 Dec 4, 2025
15
The hack that brought back the zombie apocalypse
40:58 Nov 27, 2025
16
We’re sorry. Wait, did a company actually say that?
55:22 Nov 20, 2025
17
Tinder’s camera roll and the Buffett deepfake
38:21 Nov 13, 2025
18
The hack that messed with time, and rogue ransomware negotiators
38:43 Nov 6, 2025
19
Inside the mob's million-dollar poker hack, and a Formula 1 fumble
40:54 Oct 30, 2025
20
How to hack a prison, and the hidden threat of online checkouts
44:04 Oct 22, 2025
21
A breach, a burnout, and a bit of Fleetwood Mac
45:17 Oct 15, 2025
22
When your mouse turns snitch, and hackers grow a conscience
42:18 Oct 8, 2025
23
Salesforce's trusted domain of doom
43:20 Oct 1, 2025
24
The €600,000 gold heist, powered by ransomware
39:13 Sep 24, 2025
25
Lights! Camera! Hacktion!
42:32 Sep 17, 2025
26
Whopper Hackers, and AI Whoppers
44:51 Sep 10, 2025
27
How hackers turned AI into their new henchman
45:27 Sep 3, 2025
28
Oops! I auto-filled my password into a cookie banner
34:51 Aug 27, 2025
29
How to mine millions without paying the bill
34:20 Aug 20, 2025
30
Poisoned Calendar invites, ChatGPT, and Bromide
33:17 Aug 13, 2025
31
Replit panics, and the AI that will kill you
27:43 Aug 6, 2025
32
Red flags, leaked chats, and a final farewell
40:10 Jul 30, 2025
33
When 2G attacks, and a romantic road trip goes wrong
33:39 Jul 23, 2025
34
Choo Choo Choose to ignore the vulnerability
36:55 Jul 16, 2025
35
Call of Duty: From pew-pew to pwned
35:11 Jul 9, 2025
36
Surveillance, spyware, and self-driving snafus
34:04 Jul 2, 2025
37
Operation Endgame, deepfakes, and dead slugs
54:59 Jun 25, 2025
38
The curious case of the code copier
32:15 Jun 18, 2025
39
Toothpick flirts, Google leaks, and ICE ICE scammers
35:54 Jun 11, 2025
40
Fake Susies, flawed systems, and fruity fixes for anxiety
34:04 Jun 4, 2025
41
Star Wars, the CIA, and a WhatsApp malware mirage
47:44 May 28, 2025
42
Grid failures, Instagram scams, and Legal Aid leaks
48:16 May 21, 2025
43
Hello, Pervert! - Sextortion scams and Discord disasters
51:02 May 14, 2025
44
High street hacks, and Disney's Wingdings woe
48:51 May 7, 2025
45
Hacking hijinks at the hospital, and WASPI scams
30:57 Apr 30, 2025
46
Zoom.. just one click and your data goes boom!
33:26 Apr 23, 2025
47
Hacking the hackers... with a credit card?
33:24 Apr 16, 2025
48
Signalgate sucks, and the quandary of quishing
55:42 Apr 9, 2025
49
The fall of Troy, and whisky barrel scammers
52:01 Apr 2, 2025
50
Unleash the AI bot army against the scammers - now!
33:38 Mar 26, 2025
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