About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of AI in cybersecurity, particularly in the context of iPhone theft and hacking incidents.

You've had your iPhone stolen. A day later, you get a text from Apple saying they've found it, and a very helpful woman called Alice from Apple Support calls to walk you through recovering it. She's polite. She's professional. But she is not from Apple. She's not even human. And she's about to break into your iPhone. Meanwhile, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta have all announced - with varying degrees of drama - that their AI agents have "broken out of the sandbox" and gone hacking. James takes a step back and asks the awkward question: is this really an emergent AI apocalypse, or did they just leave the door open? All this and more in episode 483 of the "Smashing Security" podcast with cybersecurity expert and keynote speaker Graham Cluley, and special guest James Ball. EPISODE LINKS: Hacker leaks GTA VI footage to push a crypto token before pulling off a $270,000 cash-out - Coindesk. ValleyRAT Backdoor Hides in Signed Adware That Users Add to Antivirus Exclusions - The Hacker News. FulcrumSec claims Manchester Airports hack, theft of 86 GB of data - Bleeping Computer. Mugged for my phone, then locked out of my life - The Times. Exposing AnonyMousKIT: AI-Powered PhaaS Supply Chain…

People in this episode

Host: Graham Cluley

Guest: James Ball

Topics covered

• AI and cybersecurity
• iPhone theft
• emergent AI
• hacking
• voice AI
• data breaches

Keywords

• AI
• cybersecurity
• iPhone theft
• hacking
• voice AI
• data breaches
• OpenAI
• Anthropic
• Meta

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Apple, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Coindesk, The Hacker News, Bleeping Computer, SOCRadar, Irregular

Books & works: Smashing Security

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