Never say this to a robot dog

At Black Hat this month, a group of security researchers took a $9,000 robot dog, plugged Google's AI into its brain, and jailbroke it by telling it - with a completely straight face - that it was a Pokemon. What followed involved a wall, a blue ice chest, and anyone in the room wearing white shoes. Oh, and did we mention you can buy a flamethrower attachment?

Meanwhile, in Salzburg, 280 gold statuettes of Mozart have vanished from the streets. This has happened to the same artist before. Organised crime, or a publicity stunt? Jenny has thoughts - and some parallels for the world of cybersecurity.

All this and more in episode 481 of the "Smashing Security" podcast with cybersecurity expert and keynote speaker Graham Cluley, and special guest Jenny Radcliffe.

EPISODE LINKS:

• Burnham exchanged messages with person posing as Trump's chief of staff - BBC News.
• New Microsoft Defender 'ShieldBreak' zero-day grants SYSTEM privileges - Bleeping Computer.
• SafePal Hardware Wallet Maker Says Flaw Exposed Data of Nearly 40,000 Customers - The Hacker News.
• macOS ‘Screen Sharing’ flaw exploited for crypto-mining - Hot for Security.
• Kinetic Prompt Injection: Agent Compromise With a Physical Blast - Greptalks.
• Kinetic Prompt Injection: Agent Compromise With a Physical Blast Radius - YouTube.
• More Than 200 Golden Mozart Statuettes Stolen From Salzburg Months After Famed Composer’s 270th Birthday - Smithsonian Magazine.
• An Art Installation of More Than 100 Wagner Figurines Outside a German Theater Has Mysteriously Disappeared - Artnet News.
• Ray Alan - Wikipedia.
• Ray Alan with "Lord Charles" - World's Greatest Ventriloquist - YouTube.
• Educating Archie - YouTube.
• Peter Brough - Wikipedia.
• No. 10: Full Confidence - A Game of Political Survival.
• Smashing Security merchandise (t-shirts, mugs, stickers and stuff)

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