How a cybersecurity boss framed his personal worker • Graham Cluley – Cyber Tech

When a prime cybersecurity agency found it had a leak, you’d count on the FBI to be referred to as. As a substitute, the individual put answerable for the investigation was the precise leaker… who promptly despatched an harmless colleague right into a career-ending ambush.

On this episode, we unravel the jaw-dropping story of a defence contractor caught promoting zero-day exploits to a Russia-linked dealer.

Plus: are nation states quietly poisoning AI fashions to bend actuality itself? We discover how “overseas info manipulation interference” may goal not simply social media customers, however the giant language fashions we more and more belief for solutions — and what which may imply for reality, belief, and the way forward for on-line affect.

All this, and rather more, in episode 457 of the “Smashing Safety” podcast with cybersecurity veteran Graham Cluley, and particular visitor Carl Miller.

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