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Click Happens is a weekly cybersecurity podcast bringing a curated, global cast of guests to break down the week's cyber news. Each guest, security professionals and everyday people alike, brings their own experience and perspective on the human side of cybersecurity. The show covers the stories that made headlines and the breaches and vulnerabilities that didn't, explained in plain English. Host Ant Davis has spent over 15 years helping people understand security instead of just complying with it.
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- Today1h 32m
US Flights Grounded + Outlook Had a Snow Day + A Fake GTA 6 Download Steals Your Logins
Planes were grounded across the United States for around four and a half hours, and the theories started before the airports had cleared. Microsoft 365 went down for hours and the world had an Outlook snow day, which brought a wave of fake Microsoft support calls with it. BrickLink, the Lego marketplace, vanished from the internet and went quiet. And a fake GTA 6 download turned out to be an infostealer, because a game nobody can play on PC yet is the perfect lure.This week on Click Happens, episode six, with guest Cyber Misplays, we get into the nationwide ground stop and whether a newly rolled out AI traffic tool overloaded old equipment, the hospital lift running Windows ME and the server marked do not turn off, the Microsoft 365 outage and what it did to UK police, the NHS and the AI tools that connect to it, the fake Microsoft calls that followed, what BrickLink eventually told its members, the fridges that overheated in France and who actually owns those controllers, how fast AI is shrinking the gap between a vulnerability and an attack, the fake GTA 6 download, and how a driving game mod led to a Disney Slack breach.00:00 Intro02:52 US flights grounded across America09:54 Did a new AI traffic tool overload old systems16:02 Tech debt and the server marked do not turn off21:42 A hospital lift running Windows ME23:07 Microsoft 365 goes down28:32 The real world knock on from the outage30:13 Microsoft's monopoly and the paywalled security data38:04 AI and the phishing investigation problem42:50 Fake Microsoft calls and near miss texts47:54 BrickLink goes offline50:40 AO3 goes quiet54:02 AI, incident response firms and bug bounty slop58:53 How fast AI shrinks the time to exploit1:03:08 The fridges burning in France and the attribution puzzle1:09:25 Why everything is connected1:16:04 The fake GTA 6 download1:22:17 BeamNG, Disney and Slack1:27:07 Ransomware war stories and the hot dog stand legend1:31:28 Wrap upSubscribe for weekly cybersecurity news made simple, so even your mum gets it.Click Happens is an independent podcast hosted by Ant Davis, with a different guest joining each week.Instagram: @antdaviscyberTikTok: @antdaviscyberLinkedIn: @antdaviscyberYouTube: @antdaviscyberWebsite: www.antdavis.comThis week's guest:Cyber Misplays on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cybermisplays/Cyber Misplays newsletter: https://cybermisplays.beehiiv.com/subscribeAll Cyber Misplays links: https://beacons.ai/cybermisplays
- 2 days ago30 min
Microsoft Fixed 1,100 Flaws + AI Chats Leaked via a Supplier + France Blames Iran for the Fridges
Microsoft fixed around 1,100 flaws in one go, Google patched its eighth Chrome zero-day of the year, and Sega's newsletter supplier leaked 2.2 million email addresses. France is now pointing the finger at Iran over the fridge attacks that hit around 700 shops, an AI supplier's breach reached the chat history of some Notion AI users, and a forgotten spare key let an attacker wander through a data company's customers' cloud accounts for 12 days.This week on Click Happens, episode 6, I'm flying solo with a head cold and a very big week of news. We cover the updates worth installing today, the breaches to watch your inbox for, why supplier access is the thing nobody switches off, and a free grand piano that does not exist.00:00 Intro01:18 Patch Tuesday and the 1,100 fixes02:56 The Outlook zero-day04:43 Exchange zero-click bug06:11 Adobe, SAP, Fortinet, Intel and AMD patches07:23 When patches break things08:43 Chrome zero-day number eight10:11 iPhone update and ad-delivered exploit kits11:23 Sega and Capcom breaches13:01 Binance breach claim14:04 Vanderbilt ransomware claim15:47 Chelsea and fantasy football17:38 Third party fallout with Fireworks AI and Notion20:49 Qubole and the forgotten spare key22:43 N-able Central taken offline23:21 France points the finger at Iran over the fridges25:10 Connected cars with admin and admin26:38 The free grand piano scam28:41 Quickfire tipsSubscribe for weekly cybersecurity news made simple, so even your mum gets it.Click Happens is an independent podcast hosted by Ant Davis, with a different guest joining each week.Instagram: @antdaviscyberTikTok: @antdaviscyberLinkedIn: @antdaviscyberYouTube: @antdaviscyberWebsite: www.antdavis.com
- 2 weeks ago1h 16m
A Padlock Key Was the Number 4 + AI Zombie Apps Want Your Photos + PHP Exploit Video Leaked Early
A joke vulnerability fooled half the internet because it sounded just like the real ones. The key protecting the padlock in your browser turned out to be the number four. Halloween apps want your family photos and won't say who they are. Fake IT support is flooding inboxes and then offering to fix them over Teams. And an unreleased AI model has been shown chaining bugs together into working attacks.This week on Click Happens, episode 5, with guest Jono Zachariah, founder of Baseline 77, we cover the PHP2Shell and Node2Shell flaws and the HTML2Shell joke, the AI Halloween sites asking for your photos, the Teams external chat scam, the Warhorse Studios cyberattack, the eMudra certificate distrust and AI chaining flaws into working attacks. Jono also explains why a catchy name helps security teams get things patched.00:00 Intro01:32 Welcome and Meet Jono03:40 PHP2Shell, Node2Shell and HTML2Shell26:19 AI Halloween Sites35:47 Teams External Chat Scam46:00 Warhorse Studios Cyberattack54:35 eMudra Certificate Distrust1:03:21 AI Chaining Flaws Into Working Attacks1:12:03 AI and Fixing Security FasterSubscribe for weekly cybersecurity news made simple, so even your mum gets it.Click Happens is an independent podcast hosted by Ant Davis, with a different guest joining each week.Instagram: @antdaviscyberTikTok: @antdaviscyberLinkedIn: @antdaviscyberYouTube: @antdaviscyberWebsite: www.antdavis.comGuest: Jono Zachariah, founder of Baseline 77, a disruptive cybersecurity consultancyJono on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathonzachariah/Baseline 77 on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/baseline77Baseline 77 website: www.baseline77.com
- 2 weeks ago50 min
Inside Australia's Biggest Cyber Event + Who Holds Your Data + Backing the Person Who Clicked
Bora has just been to CyberCon, Australia's biggest cyber event, with around five thousand people, more than a hundred and sixty vendors and plenty of free socks. The most talked about topics were social engineering, deepfakes and data sovereignty, including what happens to your data and your family photos when a big tech account gets locked. Ant shares what CISOs told him at the Richmond Cybersecurity Forum in London and on CruiseCon, a cybersecurity conference at sea, including culture capital, why a security policy might need a marketing expert, and the robot hoover in your living room. And they ask how well organisations look after the person who got socially engineered.This bonus episode of Click Happens has Bora back in the passenger seat with no plan and no running order. We get into why social engineering was the hottest topic at CyberCon, what the CLOUD Act and data sovereignty mean for where your data lives, why a locked Google account can cost a parent their kids' photos, what CISOs said about language, culture and resilience, and why the person who clicked deserves support.00:00 Intro01:12 CyberCon, Australia's biggest cyber event03:20 Cyber socks and the eight year old test05:30 Social engineering, deepfakes and the alphabet of 'ishing07:11 Data sovereignty and the CLOUD Act11:08 Where your data really lives and Google lockouts13:34 Big tech holds our data and why schools need their own social network15:49 Is big tech the bigger risk? Parental controls and safe spaces for kids18:58 Teenagers, parents sharing photos and what strangers can find19:56 What a public Flickr account and a food review can give away22:15 What CISOs told Ant at the Richmond Cybersecurity Forum25:10 CruiseCon and culture capital27:36 Two types of CISO29:00 Safe at work, safe at home and the robot hoover31:40 Secure by design and a point of sale horror story32:20 ASOS, supplier breaches and the shift to resilience34:11 What a CISO is and who owns the risk36:04 Business owners, password managers and a bad master password40:28 Supporting the person who got socially engineered44:31 A gift card scam and the phone call that mattered47:32 CyberCon next year and a CruiseCon in Antarctica50:02 Wrap upSubscribe for weekly cybersecurity news made simple, so even your mum gets it.Click Happens is an independent podcast hosted by Ant Davis, with a different guest joining each week.Instagram: @antdaviscyberTikTok: @antdaviscyberLinkedIn: @antdaviscyberYouTube: @antdaviscyberWebsite: www.antdavis.comThis week's guest:Bora Seker: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bora-seker-45761715/Dumb Ways to Get Hacked: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8kLkjxLw8-_VnC7XpNXY6A
- 3 weeks ago57 min
A Welsh Data Unit Used Password1 + Calendar Invites Became Phishing + Spyware Delivered Through Ads
A test account created in 2012 with the password Password1 led to the ICO reprimanding a Welsh local government data unit and its IT supplier. Recruitment platform Bullhorn went offline for days after a cyber incident, cutting agencies off from candidate records and, in some cases, the systems used to pay people. Malicious calendar invites grew from a few thousand a month in April to 740,000 in the first two weeks of October. Spyware vendors found a way to infect targeted devices through ads, with no click needed. And 23andMe's successor company agreed to pay California $6 million over the 2023 breach, while the DNA data itself now sits with a nonprofit set up by the co-founder.This week on Click Happens, episode four, with guest Bora back in the passenger seat. We get into who owns a forgotten test account, what Bullhorn's warning about impersonators says about breach notifications, how a calendar invite can reach you even when the email is blocked, what Citizen Lab found about ads delivering spyware, and what happens to your DNA data when the company that collected it goes bankrupt.00:00 Intro01:04 Bora is back, and so are the moths03:45 Password1 and the Welsh data unit19:22 Bullhorn goes dark31:20 Malicious calendar invites39:14 AdFection, spyware delivered through ads46:53 23andMe's $6 million settlement and who owns the DNA data55:59 Wrap up and the bonus episodeSubscribe for weekly cybersecurity news made simple, so even your mum gets it.Click Happens is an independent podcast hosted by Ant Davis, with a different guest joining each week.Instagram: @antdaviscyberTikTok: @antdaviscyberLinkedIn: @antdaviscyberYouTube: @antdaviscyberWebsite: www.antdavis.comThis week's guest:Bora Seker: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bora-seker-45761715/Dumb Ways to Get Hacked: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8kLkjxLw8-_VnC7XpNXY6A
- Oct 15, 202640 min
A Fake Warning Inside ChatGPT + Attackers Used ASOS's Own App + Hackers Heated French Fridges
A fake security warning appeared inside a real ChatGPT conversation and told a user to paste a command into Windows Terminal. Attackers used ASOS's own app to tell customers the company had been hacked. Several hundred French supermarkets had their fridges pushed to 50 degrees overnight. And an executive at a ransomware negotiation firm has been arrested in the FBI's ShinyHunters investigation.This week on Click Happens: episode three, recorded solo on Wednesday 14 October. Ant covers why people follow instructions that appear inside tools they already trust, what ASOS's email got right and the one link it should not have included, what the fridge attacks say about connected devices, and why a lawsuit over AI webcam monitoring is worth thinking about.00:00 Intro02:20 The fake OpenAI verification message inside ChatGPT09:35 ASOS: attackers use the company's own app to announce the hack19:15 H&M, Phase Eight, Hobbs and Whistles: fashion retail's rough week21:40 8.7 million karaoke customer records exposed through a contractor22:40 The fridges in France: Danfoss, 50 degrees and connected devices30:35 A ransomware negotiator arrested in the ShinyHunters investigation32:25 The AI webcam monitoring lawsuit37:35 Quickfire: an AI model's false murder tip, Operation Blackout and fake Claude installers39:30 What to do this weekSubscribe for weekly cybersecurity news made simple, so even your mum gets it.Click Happens is an independent podcast hosted by Ant Davis, with a different guest joining each week.Instagram: @antdaviscyberTikTok: @antdaviscyberLinkedIn: @antdaviscyberYouTube: @antdaviscyberWebsite: www.antdavis.com
- Oct 7, 202653 min
16-Year-Old Hacks Microsoft + AI Tools Store Your Secrets + Your Car Shares Your Data
A 16-year-old found a way into Microsoft's internal Titan analytics service, reported it responsibly and was paid five thousand dollars. Another 16-year-old is suspected of running a ransomware group that Eurojust links to almost a thousand attacks. Coding agents are storing API keys and credentials in plain text, and more than 543,000 credentials exposed in public GitHub repositories were still valid in July. And the app that comes with your car may be passing your data to advertising and tracking companies.This week on Click Happens: episode two, with guest Oli joining while Ant records from a cybersecurity conference at sea in the Caribbean. We get into why convenience keeps beating security when it comes to AI tools, how "always approve" turns into a habit, and what organisations should do when a teenager shows them a hole in their systems.00:00 Intro03:42 AI coding agents are storing your secrets in plain text07:37 Gemini desktop control and the "always approve" problem11:18 Anthropic's voice data prompt and what AI knows about you18:12 The 16-year-old who found a Microsoft Titan flaw24:36 The 16-year-old suspected of running KillSec ransomware28:14 543,000 valid credentials in public GitHub repos36:40 Car apps sharing owners' data with advertisers48:16 The Times Car breach, 6.6 million accountsSubscribe for weekly cybersecurity news made simple, so even your mum gets it.Click Happens is an independent podcast hosted by Ant Davis, with a different guest joining each week. This week's guest: Oli Inkley.Instagram: @antdaviscyberTikTok: @antdaviscyberLinkedIn: @antdaviscyberYouTube: @antdaviscyberWebsite: www.antdavis.com
- Sep 28, 20261h 22m
An AI Broke Into a Government Website + The FBI's Second Break-In + They Deepfaked Martin Lewis
An OpenAI agent broke into an Australian government health site, and it took the Prime Minister three months to find out. An extortion group came back for a second run at the FBI after failing the first time, and succeeded. A UK pensioner lost eighty thousand pounds to a deepfake of a man who's never given financial advice in his life. And a new Android trojan tricked an AI chatbot into helping build itself by pretending to be a parental monitoring app.This week on Click Happens: the first episode of the rebrand, with guest Bora Seker from Dumb Ways to Get Hacked joining from Australia. We get into why accountability for AI-caused breaches shouldn't depend on whether a human typed the command, why normalising these stories is more dangerous than the stories themselves, and the emotional triggers behind deepfake investment scams, from both a UK and an Australian angle.00:00 Intro01:19 Meet this week's guest, Bora03:35 Breach Watch: OpenAI agent breaches Australian government Medicare site29:35 The FBI's second break-in this year, ShinyHunters and the PeopleSoft zero-day44:55 Deepfake Martin Lewis and Nigel Farage investment scams1:05:27 RemControl: the Android trojan an AI helped buildSubscribe for weekly cybersecurity news made simple, so even your mum gets it.Click Happens is an independent podcast hosted by Ant Davis, with a different guest joining each week.Instagram: @antdaviscyberTikTok: @antdaviscyberLinkedIn: @antdaviscyberYouTube: @antdaviscyberWebsite: www.antdavis.comThis week's guest:Bora Seker: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bora-seker-45761715/Dumb Ways to Get Hacked: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8kLkjxLw8-_VnC7XpNXY6A
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