Pick of the week archive

Pick of the Week is the part of the show where everyone chooses something that they like. It could be a funny story, a book they’ve read, a TV show, movie, record, a podcast, a website, or an app, whatever they like.

It doesn’t have to be security-related necessarily. Carole: Should not be...

Thanks to our lovely listeners for helping us keep this list up to date.


384: A room with a view, AI music shenanigans, and a cocaine bear

383: The Godfather club, and AirTags to the rescue

382: CrowdStrike, Dark Wire, and the Paris Olympics

381: Teachers TikTok targeted, and fraud in the doctors’ waiting room

380: Trump assassination conspiracies, Squarespace account hijacks, and the butt stops here

379: Private nights, evil twins, and crypto home invasions

378: Julian Assange, inside a DDoS attack, and deepfake traumas

377: An unhealthy data dump, railway surveillance, and a cheater sues Apple

376: iOS 18 for cheaters, and a model cop extortionist?

375: Crashing robo-taxis, and name-dropping rappers

374: Microsoft’s Recall controversy, and the North Korean insider threat

373: iPhone undeleted photos, and stealing Scarlett Johansson’s voice

372: The fake deepfake, and Estate insecurity

371: Unmasking LockBitsupp, company extortion, and a Tinder fraudster

370: The closed loop conundrum, default passwords, and Baby Reindeer

369: Keeping the lights on after a ransomware attack

368: Gary Barlow, and a scam turns deadly

367: WhatsApp at Westminster, unhealthy AI, and Drew Barrymore

366: Money-making bots, and Incognito isn’t private

365: Hacking hotels, Google’s AI goof, and cyberflashing

364: Bing pop-up wars, and the British Library ransomware scandal

363: Stuck streaming sticks, TikTok conspiracies, and spying cars

362: Ransomware fraud, pharmacy chaos, and suicide

361: Wireless charging woe, AI romance apps, and ransomware revisited

360: LockBit locked out, and funeral Facebook scams

359: Declaring war on ransomware gangs, mobile muddles, and AI religion

358: Hong Kong hijinks, pig butchers, and poor ransomware gangs

357: Interview with an iPhone thief, anti-AI, and have we gone too far?

356: Big dumpers, AI defamation, and the slug that slurped

355: Fishy Rishi, 23andMe, and the labour of love

354: Chuck Norris and the fake CEO, artificial KYC, and an Airbnb scam

353: Phone hacking, Piers Morgan, and Carole’s Christmas cockup

352: For research purposes only

351: Nuclear cybersecurity, Marketplace scams, and face up to porn

350: Think before you shrink! And our guest is faked

349: Ransomware gang reports its own crime, and what happened at OpenAI?

348: Hacking for chimp change, and AI chatbot birthday

347: Trolls, military data, and the hitman and her

346: How hackers are breaching Booking.com, and the untrustworthy reviews

345: Cyber sloppiness, and why does Google really want to hide your IP address?

344: What’s cooking at Booking.com? And a podcast built by AI

343: Four-legged girlfriends, LoveGPT, and a military intelligence failure

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  • “The Last Action Heroes” by Nick de Semlyen – Pan Macmillan.
  • Life Kit – NPR.
  • 342: Royal family attacked, keyless car theft, and a deepfake Tom Hanks

    341: Another T-Mobile breach, ThemeBleed, and farewell Naked Security

    340: Heated seats, car privacy, and Graham’s porn video

    339: Bitcoin boo-boo, deepfakes for good, and time to say goodbye to usernames?

    338: Catfishing services, bad sports, and another cockup

    337: The DEA’s crypto calamity, and scammers’ blue tick bonanza

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  • Infinite Mac.
  • CrazyGames.
  • Braingle.
  • 40 Weirdest Things on Amazon That People Actually Love to Buy – Good Housekeeping.
  • 336: Pizza pests, and securing your wearables

    335: AI chat wars, and hacker passwords exposed

    334: Acoustic attacks, and the tears of a crypto rapper

    333: Barbie and the stalking spouse

    332: Nudes leak at the plastic surgery, Mali mail mix-up, and WormGPT

    331: Boris Johnson’s WhatsApps, and sextorting party girls

    330: Deepfake Martin Lewis, and a deadly jog in the park

    329: Pornhub, Barbie dolls, and can you trust a free TV?

    328: UPS smishing, ChatGPT 101, and storing secret files

    327: Mark’s metaverse for minors, and getting down to business

    326: Right Royal security threats and MOVEit mayhem

    325: .ZIP domains, AI lies, and did social media inflame a riot?

    324: .ZIP domains, AI lies, and did social media inflame a riot?

    323: Botched Bitcoin blackmail, iSpoof, and Meta’s billion dollar data bungle

    322: When you buy a criminal’s phone, and paying for social media scams

    321: Eurovision, acts of war, and Twitter circles

    320: City Jerks, AI animals, and is the BBC hacking again?

    319: The CEO who also ran IT, Strava strife, and TikTok tall tales

    318: Tesla workers spy on drivers, and Operation Fox Hunt scams

    317: Another Uber SNAFU, an AI chatbot quiz, and is juice-jacking genuine?

    316: Of Musk and Afroman

    315: Crypto hacker hijinks, government spyware, and Utah social media shocker

    314: Photo cropping bombshell, TikTok debates, and real estate scams

    313: Tesla twins and deepfake dramas

    312: Super grannies, bar trolls, and US Marshals

    311: TikTok, wiretapping, and your deepfake voice is your password

    310: Verified blue ticks and horny AI chatbots

    309: Synthetic voices, ChatGPT reflections, and social skirmishes

    308: Jail after VPN fail, criminal messaging apps, and wolf-crying watches

    307: ChatGPT and the Minister for Foreign Affairs

    306: No Fly lists, cell phones, and the end of ransomware riches?

    305: Norton unlocked, and police leaks

    304: Oxford’s dating disaster, cheap security robots, and faking a suicide

    303: Secret Roomba snaps, Christmas cab scams, and the future of AI

    302: Lensa AI, and a dog called Bob

    301: AI chatbot or the start of Skynet? Eufy privacy, and hot desks

    300: Interplanetary file systems, iSpoof, and don’t delete Twitter

    299: EV charging risks, FTX, and an ancient apocalypse

    298: Housing market scams, Twitter 2FA, and the fesshole

    297: Mastodon 101, and the Hushpuppi saga

    296: Twitter turmoil, AI animal chatters, and metaverse at work

    295: Slushygate, sextortion, and nano-targeting

    294: The Virgin trains swindler, cyber clowns, and AirTag election debacle

    293: Massive crypto bungle, and the slave scammers

    292: Trussterflucks and eBay stalking

    291: Deepfake dangers, AI image opt out, and controlling your urges

    290: Uber, Rockstar, and crystal balls

    289: Printer peeves, health data hangups, and Twitter tussles – with Rory Cellan-Jones

    288: Chiquita banana, dumb criminals, and detecting ring binders

    287: Lost in translation, spiders, and slapping tortillas – with Mikko Hyppönen

    286: Hackers doxxed, Pornhub probs, and Co-op security measures

    285: Uber's hidden hack, tips for travel, and AI accent fixes

    284:The Most Wanted Missing CryptoQueen

    No "Pick of the week" section in this episode. Shocking!

    283: Disney's social dumpster fire, Anom phones, and TikTok tragedies

    282: Raising money through ransomware, China's mega-leak, and hackers for hire

    281: Debug ransomware and win $1,000,000, period-tracking apps, and AI gets emotional

    280: Hot tub hijinx, and a sentient AI

    279: Encrypted notes, and a deadly case of AirTag spying

    278: Tim Hortons, avoiding sanctions, and good faith security research

    277: Bad bots, cheeky ransoms, and good deepfakes

    276: Webcam extortion, Michael Fish, and food foul-ups

    275: Jail for Bing, and mental health apps may not be good for you

    274: Hands off my biometrics, and a wormhole squirmish

    273: Password blips, and who's calling the airport?

    272: Going ape over the Kardashians, and the face of romance scams

    271: Crypto break-in, Google blurring, and mics not muting

    270: Bearded Barbie, EDR scams, and hobbyist crime detectives

    269: Trezor Deep Throat, a CCTV stalker, and Amazon's list of banned words

    268: LinkedIn deepfakes, doxxing Russian spies, and a false alarm

    267: Virtual kidnapping, two helipads, and a naughty Apple employee

    266: Cyberflashing, Kaspersky, and secret spies

    265: The Nigerian supercop and Alexa vs. Alexa

    264: Hacked car chargers, Telegram sextortionists, and secret bossware

    263: Problèmes de Weefeee, AI artists, and Web 3.0

    262: Macro progress, eyeball-tracking ads, and encryption backdoors

    261: North Korea hacked, DEA cosplay, and Horizon Worlds drama

    260: New hire mystery, hacktivist ransomware, and digi-dating

    259: Techquilibrium and mediocre linguistic escapades

    258: Tesla remote hijacks and revolting YouTubers

    257: Pokemon-hunting cops and the Spine Collector scammer

    256: Virgin Media just won't take no for an answer, NFT apes, and bad optics

    255: Revolting receipts, a Twitter fandango, and shopkeeper cyber tips

    254: A dead hamster, a brass pen, and The Beatles

    253: Cybercrime unicorns, HVAC hacks, and NFT piracy - with Mikko Hyppönen

    252: Hotel hacks, workplace spies, and the FBI

    251: PrawnHub, Tesla recall, and IoT luggage

    250: Yes, you heard that correctly. Two hundred and fifty

    249: Devious licks, Netflix, and sensitive hackers

    248: Press F12 to hack

    247: Rickrolling submarine secrets

    246: Facebook has fallen

    245: The Julian Assange assassination plot, and IoT toilets

    244: Facebook Ray-Bans, VPN spies, and AI camouflage

    243: Breaking news, Apple zero-clicks, and bad blood

    242: ProtonMail privacy questioned, and Banksy blunder

    241: Flipping dating apps, and crypto rewards for criminals

    240: 3D printer hijacks, crypto fails, and a tech billionaire’s revenge

    239: TikTok vigilantes, sloppy IoT, and Wikipedia woe

    238: Fashion captain, fraud family, and DEF CON. D'oh!

    237: NuNa, NuNu, NaNa

    236: Stingrays, soccer, and smart homes

    235: REvil returns, TikTok grows, and Gettr defaced

    234: Cozy Bear, dildo scams, and robo hires and fires

    233: Peloton problems, romance regret, and Weiner woes

    232: Zoomolympics and language matters

    231: Sexy snaps and encrypted chat traps

    230: Flash card f-up and energy pipe pilfering

    229: Dating leaks, right to repair, and a stinky bishop

    228: Pipeline pickle, Blockchain bollocks, and Eufy SNAFU - with Rory Cellan-Jones

    227: Phishing foul-up, Twitter tip jars, and Facebook's Apple fury

    226: Cryptocrazies and NFTs

    225: Master of your domain, gripe sites, and John Deere Farmergeddon

    224: The Lazarus Heist, Facebook faux pas, and no-cost security

    223: Booze, nudes, and insurance dudes

    222: Facebook, deepfakes, and April Fools scandals - with Nina Schick

    221: God bless his hairy palms

    220: Ransoms, scandals, and glitter bombs

    219: Cheerleaders, dating apps, and crisis PR

    218: Microsoft, McAfee, and mayhem

    217: Would you cuddle this revolting robot? - with Robert Llewellyn

    216: Playboy, prison, and digital ploys - with Garry Kasparov

    215: Sexy cows banned on Facebook

    214: Lockdown love scams, SolarWinds, and a data deletion bungle

    213: No security smarts at Mensa, long-term identity theft, and GameStop's share frenzy

    212: Dutch leaks, Peeping Toms, and researchers under fire

    211: Fleeking, COVID-19 hacking, and Bitcoin balls-ups

    210: DC rioters ID'd, Energydots, and ransomware gets you in a pickle

    209: Vengeful ex-staff, bad Santas, and iOS app nutrition facts

    208: Hidden treasure, COVID tracker trauma, and happy holidays with IoT

    207: Cyber biowarfare, giant ladybugs, and strippers

    206: Robo dogs, Deepfakes and Dirty Deceptions with Tim Harford

    205: Zoom password pinching and Parler problems

    204: Green buttons, Olympic attacks, and... an apology

    203: Testing times, naming names, and the bald truth about AI

    202: The Wu-Tang Clan are Among Us

    201: Robin Hood, Flippy, and the web ad bubble

    200: Two flipping hundred

    • Skribbl — Free Multiplayer Drawing & Guessing Game.
    • Hades — Super Giant Games.
    • Sticky Pickles — A new podcast by Carole Theriault and Anna Brading.

    199: A few tech cock-ups, and one cock lock-up

    198: Chucky the coffee maker

    197: Greedy bosses, game cheats, and virtual beheadings

    196: Smart guns, smart cars, and smart street lights - oh my!

    195: Selene Delgado Lopez is not your friend

    194: Carry on droning

    193: Hacking the CIA, Bridgefy, and college lockdowns

    192: Ritz and robocalls with Rory

    191: We are on the bird

    190: Twitter hack arrests, email bad behaviour, and Fawkes vs facial recognition

    189: DNA cock-up, Garmin hack, and virtual kidnappings

    188: Dinner with Elon Musk and Kris Jenner

    187: Huawei ban, MGM hack, and a contact-tracing cock-up

    186: This one's for all the Karens!

    185: Bieber fever, Roblox, and ransomware

    184: Vanity Bitcoin wallets, BlueLeaks, and a Coronavirus app conspiracy

    183: MAMILs, gameshows, and a surprise from eBay

    182: Space Force, credit card fraud, and beep-ti-beep

    181: Anti-cybercrime ads, tricky tracing, and a 5G Bioshield

    180: Taking care of Clare

    179: Deepfake Jay-Z, and beer apps spilling your data

    178: Office pranks, meat dresses, and robocop dogs

    177: Elon Musk, Roblox, and Love Bug author found

    176: Hacking hacks and university attacks

    175: Zoom deepfakes, Zardoz, and 'Rona tracing

    174: Garry Kasparov and Animal Crossing

    173: 5G fiascos, Zoom gloom, and butt biometrics

    172: UncleF***Face

    171: WhatsApp hoaxes, Zoombombs, and 8-bit love

    170: PornHub, Coronavirus apps, and remote working

    169: Burglaries, breaches, and bidets

    168: The Bitcoin fraud factory

    167: Coronavirus scams and an exaggerated lion

    166: What the Dickens! Ad ban thank you scam

    165: Cheapfakes, deepfakes, and Ashley Madison

    164: A bitter pill to swallow

    163: Russian heists and Ring wrongs

    162: Robocalls, health hacks, and facial recognition fears

    161: Love, lucky dips, and 23andMe

    160: SNAFUs! MS Word, Amazon Ring, and TikTok

    159: Rap, robbery, and IoT holiday hell

    158: The man behind The Missing Cryptoqueen

    157: A biometric knuckle duster

    155: Juice jacking, YouTube hacking, password slacking

    154: A buttock of biometrics

    153: Cybercrime doesn’t pay (but Uber does)

    152: Cats, hoodies, and rent

    151: Frankly, sometimes paying the ransom is a good idea

    150: Liverpool WAGs, Facebook politics, and a selfie stalker

    149: Falling in love with fraudsters

    148: Billboard boobs, face forensics, and Alexa gets way too personal

    147: Don't Snapchat and drive

    145: Apple and Google willy wave while home assistants spy - DoH!

    144: Google helps the FBI, Twitter Jack’s hijack, and car data woes

    143: Hacking from outer space, Ukrainian cryptomining, and deepfaked Canadians

    142: Mercedes secret sensors, smart cities, and ransomware runs riot

    141: Black Hat and Bridezillas

    140: Love, PINs, and 8chan

    139: Capital One hacked, iMessage flaws, and anonymity my ass!

    138: Logic bombs, brain data exploitation, and Digga D tweets

    137: Porn trolling lawyers, Insta hacking, and Ctrl-Alt-LED

    136: Oops, we created Iran's hacking exploit

    135: Zombie grannies and unintended leaks

    134: Sextortion, silicone face masks, and a DDoS doofus

    133: Cookie cock-ups, Hong Kong protests, and smart TV virus scans

    132: CBP cyber attack, an iPhone privacy boost, and Twitter list abuse

    131: Zap yourself from the net, and patch now against BlueKeep

    130: Doctored videos, Bcc blunders, and a diva

    129: Too Long; Didn't Listen

    128: Shackled ankles, photo scrapes, and SIM card swaps

    127: I do love the Dutch

    126: Zombie chickens and fast-food victims

    125: Pick of the thief!

    124: Poisoned porn ads, the A word, and why why why Wipro?

    122: The big fat con at Office Depot

    121: Hijacked motel rooms, ASUS PCs, and leaky apps

    120: Silk Road with Deliveroo

    119: Hijacked homes, porn passports, and ransomware regret

    118: The 's' in IoT stands for security

    117: SWATs on a plane

    116: Stalking debtors, Facebook farce, and a cyber insurance snag

    115: Love, Nests, and is 2FA destroying the world?

    114: Darknet Diaries, death, and beauty apps

    113: FaceTime, Facebook, faceplant

    112: Payroll scams, gold coin heists, web giants spanked

    111: When rivals hack, and "extreme" baby monitors

    110: What? You can get paid to leave Facebook?

    109: Grinches target Amazon and Reddit, stealing Christmas from the poor

    108: Hoaxes, Huawei and chatbots - with Mikko Hyppönen

    107: Sextorting the US army, and a Touch ID scam

    106: Google Maps, Fed phishing, and Grinch bots

    105: Facebook, Nietzsche, Tesla, and Nicole

    104: The world's most evil phishing test, and cyborgs in the workplace

    103: An Instagram nightmare, crazy iPhone deaths, and election hack claims

    102: Ethical dilemmas, Girl Scouts, and porn-loving US officials

    101: Rule 34, Twitter scams, and Facebook fails

    100: IoT failures, and Donald Trump dating disaster

    098: A Facebook omnishambles

    097: Dash cam surveillance, robocall plague, and Zoho woe

    096: Bribing Amazon staff, and blinking deepfakes

    095: British Airways hack, Mac apps steal browser history, and one person has 285,000 texts leaked

    094: Rogue browser extensions, Twitter presence, and how to cheat in exams

    093: Abandoned domains and dating app dangers

    092: Hacky sack hack hack

    091: Sextortion, Las Vegas hotels, and Alex Jones

    090: Fortnite for Android, and the FCC's DDoS BS

    089: Data breaches, ransomware, Bitcoin robberies, and typewriters

    088: PayPal’s Venmo app even makes your drug purchases public

    087: How Russia hacked the US election

    086: Elon Musk submarine scams and 2FA bypass

    085: Doctor Who, Facebook patents, and Bob's Burgers

    084: No! My voice is not my password

    083: Fake email derails clarinetist's dream

    082: World Cup cybersecurity, crypto crashes, and a bang of a password fail

    081: Hacker no-hopers, Wessex Water has a word, and we win an award

    080: Country bans Facebook, eavesdropping Alexa, and PornHub VPN

    079: Mugshots, mobile mania, and backend gurus

    078: Hounds hunt hackers, too-human Google AI, and ethnic recognition tech - WTF?

    077: Why Paris Hilton doesn’t use iCloud, lottery hacking, and Facebook dating

    076: Spying phones, hacked ski lifts, and World Password Day

    074: Smashing Security isn't bullsh*t

    073: Rick Astley: Never gonna hack you up...

    072: Why are firms so cr*p with our private data?

    071: Pony-tailed pundit ponders privacy problems

    070: Facebook and Cambridge Diabolica

    069: Cryptomining, China, and Bob Ross

    068: Malware from outer space!

    067: Cyber stalking and gun control

    066: Passwords, pirates, and postcards

    065: Cryptominomania, Poppy, and your Amazon Alexa

    064: So just a "teeny tiny" security issue then?

    063: Carole's back!

    062: Tinder spying, Amazon shoplifting, and petrol pump malware

    061: Fallout over Hawaii missile false alarm

    060: Meltdown, Spectre, and personal devices in the White House

    058: Face ID, Firefox, and Windows SNAFUs, plus Bitcoin FOMO

    057: Mikko - live from the sauna - talks Bitcoin security

    056: Peeping Toms, prison hacks, and parliamentary passwords

    055: Uber, net neutrality, and website hacks

    053: Game of Thrones, a major Amazon cloud leak, and web tracking gone crazy

    052: Facebook tackles vengeful scumbags, and a sex toy privacy boob

    051: Robots, romance, passwords, and CrunchyRoll

    050: MailChimp, Piers Morgan, and The Dark Overlord

    049: Hacking funeral homes, crypto mining websites, and careful with that hairspray

    048: KRACK, North Korea, and an 18th century cyber attack

    047: Kaspersky, AI, and a well-handled data breach

    046: Good beard bad beard

    045: Deloitte fail, CCleaner, and dotards on Twitter

    042: Equifax, BlueBorne, and the iPhone X

    041: Hacking Instagram, facial failures, and spying bosses

    040: The show that cost Troy Hunt 14 dollars

    039: Woah - are we talking to a cyborg?

    038: Gents! Stop airdropping your pics!

    037: Boobs, dragons and data breaches

    036: Flash? Clunk flush... and hacking security researchers

    035: Up the Roomba with mandatory Chinese spyware

    034: The pen is mightier than the password

    033: 1Password, net neutrality, and spatchcock chicken

    032: The iPhone 8, a data breach at the AA, and a mystery no show

    031: Petya (don't know the name of this ransomware)

    029: Exploits to get your English teeth into

    024: Reality Winner, Gordon Ramsay and a leaky bucket

    023: Covfefe

    Yes, it's true... "Pick of the Week" did not exist before episode 23.