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Polymarket can predict the future. So how did it miss this hack?

July 01, 2026

Polymarket has built an entire business on predicting the future. So how did it manage to spectacularly fail to predict its own hack? Plus, the Google engineer with a million-dollar secret, and the curious case of the airport hairdryer.Meanwhile, "FortiBleed" sees 75,000 Fortinet firewalls thrown wide open - and the real damage is going to roll on for years.All this and more in episode 474 of the "Smashing Security" podcast with cybersecurity expert and keynote speaker Graham ...

How a hacker could have Rickrolled the entire World Cup

June 24, 2026

A polite caller from your bank says there is a problem with your account. Don't worry - they'll send someone round to help. They'll even take your cards away to keep them safe. The scam has run rampant, until Dutch police plastered blurred photos of 100 suspects across billboards, supermarkets, and TikTok, with a two-week ultimatum to turn themselves in... or else.Meanwhile, a security researcher called Bob DaHacker got her hands on the live broadcast controls for every match of t...

AI gets hacked, and BitLocker gets bypassed

June 17, 2026

What if your AI coding assistant could be tricked into stealing your own company's secrets - by reading a single booby-trapped bug report? No phishing email. No malware. No password ever stolen. Just an AI doing exactly what it was told.Meanwhile, someone calling themselves Nightmare Eclipse has decided to teach Microsoft a lesson. The result? Three zero-days dropped on the internet, one of which lets a thief with a USB stick walk straight past BitLocker. Microsoft is furious.Plus don'...