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It's the last regular working weekday of 2022, in the unsurprisingly relaxed and vacationistic gap between Christmas and New Year. So you were probably expecting us to come up either with a Coolest Stories Of The Year In Review listicle, or with a What You Simply Must Know About Next Year thinly-disguised-as-not-a-listicle listicle.
Apple's AirTag product has been hacked twice since its recent launch, in a pair of fascinating and informative stories that give you some great insights into how cybersecurity researchers think. The good news is that you don't need to ditch your AirTags if you already splashed out and bought some - these "Hacks" don't put your privacy at risk - and we explain why.
This home delivery scam arrives in an SMS that lures you to a website, but then instead of stealing your data directly via the phoney website, it sweet-talks you into installing an app. Watch directly on YouTube if the video won't play here.
Researchers in Germany say they reported what they consider to be an AirDrop privacy hole to Apple in 2019, but never heard back. They went away and worked on what they consider an improved version, dubbed Privacy Drop, and recently announced it to the world.
Latest video - watch now! We look at the recent FBI "webshell hacking" controversy from both sides.
Cybercrooks claim to speak from a higher authority than just a missed home delivery. Sometimes they masquerade as an official government body, complete with all the right logos, the right terminology and even a realistic-looking website carefully cloned from the real deal.
Cybercrime isn't about just one sort of attack, one type of crook, or one method of protection!
New episode - watch now!
The word "Hafnium" can refer [a] to a gang currently involved in a bunch of attacks, [b] to the exploits they're using at the moment, and [c] to the malware they are deploying after they get in. Watch directly on YouTube if the video won't play here.