John Leyden started off writing about crime and showbiz for a local newspaper in Manchester before moving into tech publishing in the late 90s and writing about cybercriminals instead.

After writing for The Register for many years, John moved over to The Daily Swig in 2018 - a cybersecurity publication created by PortSwigger - the makers of BurpSuite.

4 episodes of the Smashing Security podcast:

• 321: Eurovision, acts of war, and Twitter circles · May 10, 2023
• 145: Apple and Google willy wave while home assistants spy - DoH! · Sep 11, 2019
• 082: World Cup cybersecurity, crypto crashes, and a bang of a password fail · Jun 13, 2018
• 049: Hacking funeral homes, crypto mining websites, and careful with that hairspray · Oct 25, 2017