{"podcast":{"title":"Smashing Security","slug":"smashing-security-453614","podcast_index_feed_id":453614,"rss_url":"https://feeds.redcircle.com/c478d684-038f-4b13-8507-bc32af486a2c","website_url":"https://www.smashingsecurity.com","image_url":"https://media.redcircle.com/images/2025/8/26/16/f4c118ba-43eb-4d45-8d86-36cf4c50ff73_595052322-a371c304-01cf-42c1-ab03-e0035a046f63.jpg","author":"Graham Cluley","episode_count":478,"summary":"Stories from the world of hacking, cybersecurity, and rogue AI. Smashing Security isn’t your typical tech podcast. Hosted by cybersecurity keynote speaker and industry 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).","last_synced_at":"2026-07-16T10:20:27.006972+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/smashing-security-453614"},"episode":{"title":"This developer wanted to cheat at Roblox. It cost millions","slug":"this-developer-wanted-to-cheat-at-roblox-it-cost-millions","published_at":"2026-04-29T23:00:59+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/smashing-security-453614/this-developer-wanted-to-cheat-at-roblox-it-cost-millions","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/smashing-security-453614","url":"https://www.smashingsecurity.com/465","audio_url":"https://audio4.redcircle.com/episodes/b218c1da-023f-43ec-b746-5b75b7a95eb4/stream.mp3","summary":"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 affecting hundreds of thousands of organisations. All for some free in-game currency. Meanwhile, there's a 1980s phone protocol called SS7 that lets shadowy surveillance companies track anyone, anywhere, via their mobile phone. Governments know about it. Telecoms know about it. Nobody's fixing it. All this and more in episode 465 of the \"Smashing Security\" podcast with cybersecurity keynote speaker and industry veteran Graham Cluley, joined this week by special guest James Ball. Plus! Don't miss our featured interview with Rob Edmondson of CoreView, discussing how to lock down Microsoft 365 before it's too late. EPISODE LINKS: Burglar alarm biz gets burgled, ShinyHunters pursues ransom - The Register. Ransomware negotiator pleads guilty after leaking victims' insurance details to 'BlackCat' hackers - Tom’s Hardware. Grok tells researchers pretending to be delusional ‘drive an iron nail through the mirror while reciting Psalm 91 backwards’ - The Guardian. Vercel April 2026 security incident - Vercel. App host Vercel says it was hacked and customer data stolen - TechCrunch. Vercel Breach Tied to Context AI Hack Exposes Limited Customer Credentials - Hacker News. Sorry for the Nazi spam from my Twitter account - Graham Cluley. Bad Connection: Uncovering Global Telecom Exploitation by Covert Surveillance Actors - Citizen Lab. Surveillance vendors caught abusing access to telcos to track people's phone locations, researchers say - TechCrunch. The rapid rise of phone surveillance firms - The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. Please shut up about your Spotify Wrapped - The New…","meta_description":"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 fail…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3877,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/smashing-security-453614/episodes/this-developer-wanted-to-cheat-at-roblox-it-cost-millions/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/smashing-security-453614/this-developer-wanted-to-cheat-at-roblox-it-cost-millions.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}