
Special guest
As one of the world’s leading journalists covering organised crime and tech, Geoff White has spent decades investigating the shadowy forces of fraudsters, hackers and money launderers. His work’s been featured by BBC News, Audible, Sky News, The Sunday Times and many more.
His latest book, "Rinsed", reveals technology’s impact on the underground industry of money laundering and was published by Penguin Random House in June 2024 (“Riveting” – The Financial Times).
He has given more than 300 keynote talks in more than a dozen countries for some of the biggest global brands, including Microsoft, HSBC, Sky, Mastercard and Atos.
His last book, "The Lazarus Heist" was published by Penguin Random House in June 2022. It sprang from the hit 20-part BBC podcast series of the same name, which Geoff co-hosted and which immediately ranked number one in the UK Apple chart and within the top 7 in the US.
An experienced public speaker, he has presented at some of the UK’s largest conferences, in addition to hosting events and chairing panels at venues ranging from London’s Chatham House think-tank to the Latitude music festival.
18 episodes of the Smashing Security podcast:
- 468: High-speed train hacks and homicidal lawnmowers · May 20, 2026
- 438: When your mouse turns snitch, and hackers grow a conscience · Oct 8, 2025
- 403: Coinbase crypto heists, QR codes, and ransomware in the classroom · Feb 5, 2025
- 374: Microsoft’s Recall controversy, and the North Korean insider threat · May 29, 2024
- 320: City Jerks, AI animals, and is the BBC hacking again? · May 3, 2023
- 278: Tim Hortons, avoiding sanctions, and good faith security research · Jun 8, 2022
- 268: LinkedIn deepfakes, doxxing Russian spies, and a false alarm · Mar 30, 2022
- 224: The Lazarus Heist, Facebook faux pas, and no-cost security · Apr 21, 2021
- 190: Twitter hack arrests, email bad behaviour, and Fawkes vs facial recognition · Aug 5, 2020
- 177: Elon Musk, Roblox, and Love Bug author found · May 6, 2020
- 171: WhatsApp hoaxes, Zoombombs, and 8-bit love · Mar 25, 2020
- 155: Juice jacking, YouTube hacking, password slacking · Nov 20, 2019
- 144: Google helps the FBI, Twitter Jack’s hijack, and car data woes · Sep 4, 2019
- 118: The 's' in IoT stands for security · Mar 6, 2019
- 108: Hoaxes, Huawei and chatbots - with Mikko Hyppönen · Dec 12, 2018
- 089: Data breaches, ransomware, Bitcoin robberies, and typewriters · Aug 1, 2018
- 078: Hounds hunt hackers, too-human Google AI, and ethnic recognition tech - WTF? · May 16, 2018
- 038: Gents! Stop airdropping your pics! · Aug 17, 2017