On this week’s show we learn that AI really can be a stalker’s best friend, as we explore a strange tale that starts with a manatee-shaped mailbox on a millionaire’s lawn and ends with Grok happily doxxing real people, mapping out stalking “strategies,” and handing out revenge-porn tips.
Then we go inside the Louvre heist, where thieves in hi-vis and a hire van waltzed off with the French crown jewels in broad daylight, exploiting our assumptions about what “looks normal” – the same kind of bias we’re now baking into security AIs.
Plus, Graham chats with Rob Edmondson from CoreView about why misconfigurations and over-privileged accounts can make Microsoft 365 dangerously vulnerable.
All this, and more, in episode 447 of the “Smashing Security” podcast with Graham Cluley, and special guest Jenny Radcliffe.
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Episode links:
- Khashoggi widow files complaint in France alleging Saudi government infected devices with spyware – The Record.
- US Posts $10 Million Bounty for Iranian Hackers – Security Week.
- Infostealer has entered the chat – Kaspersky.
- Dave Portnoy posts a photo of his lawn (including a manatee-shaped mailbox) – Twitter.
- Elon Musk’s Grok AI Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People – Futurism.
- Elon Musk’s Grok Is Providing Extremely Detailed and Creepy Instructions for Stalking – Futurism.
- How the Louvre thieves exploited human psychology to avoid suspicion – and what it reveals about AI – The Conversation.
- Outrageous (TV series) – Wikipedia.
- Outrageous trailer – YouTube.
- Man charged with theft after allegedly swallowing Fabergé pendant in jewellery store – The Guardian.
- Free Microsoft 365 Tenant Security Scanner – CoreView.
- Smashing Security merchandise (t-shirts, mugs, stickers and stuff)
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- CoreView – Benchmark your Microsoft 365 tenant security against the Center for Internet Security (CIS) controls.
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Theme tune: “Vinyl Memories” by Mikael Manvelyan.
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