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Smashing Security

Inside the mob's million-dollar poker hack, and a Formula 1 fumble

Smashing Security

Graham Cluley

News, Tech News, Technology

4.7579 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Basketball stars have allegedly joined forces with the mafia to fleece high-rollers in a poker scam involving hacked shufflers, covert cameras, and an X-ray card table.

Meanwhile, researchers have found they could poke around an FIA driver portal to pull up the personal details of Formula 1 megastars.

Plus: Graham’s “Pick of the Week” turns CAPTCHA hell into a delightfully deranged browser game that will make you question vegetables, geometry, and your life choices, while Danny takes a trip to ancient Africa...

All this and more is discussed in episode 441 of "Smashing Security" podcast with cybersecurity veteran Graham Cluley, and special guest Danny Palmer.


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0:00.0

They would use pre-arranged physical cues, like touching a particular chip or adjusting items on the table or scratching their nose or their buttocks or whatever it was.

0:16.0

That's it.

0:16.8

They had to try.

0:18.5

Obviously, it's a problem.

0:19.7

If you have got an Ichie bottom, you could send the wrong messages.

0:31.0

Smashing Security, Episode 441, Inside the Mob's Million Dollar Poker Hack, and the Formula 1 fumble, with Graham Cluley and special guest Danny Palmer.

0:42.5

Hello, hello, and welcome to Smash Incurity Episode 441. My name's Graham Cluley.

0:47.0

And I'm Danny Palmer. Danny, first time on the show. Welcome.

0:52.2

Thank you for having me. Long time listener, first time caller. Now, Danny, it is your first time on the show. Welcome. Thank you for having me. Long time listener, first time caller.

0:55.6

Now, Danny, it is your first time on the show. There may be some people out there who

0:59.1

don't know who you are. Why don't you describe what you do and what you're doing on

1:05.0

smashing security. What brings you here? Cool. Well, I suppose the summary is I'm a cyber security

1:10.0

journalist and writer, which I've been doing for the past, oh, 15 years or so now.

1:16.0

I was probably best known for my time at ZedDNet, where a senior reporter for about seven and a half years up until 2023.

1:25.1

I've been freelance from the start of this year. I've appeared in various publications

1:29.8

that people were probably aware of, the register, the stack, computer weekly, that sort of thing.

1:35.8

Do a bit of consulting on the side as well. And prior to ZDNet, I was at Computing magazine

1:43.3

for a number of years where I was talking about

1:46.0

and reporting on things what CIOs were thinking about and talking about, which is where we first

1:51.0

came into contact, I think it was. I actually remember an interview we did down in some London

1:56.5

hotel one time. And you wrote an article about how, what was it? Don't call it the cloud, call it

2:02.5

someone else's computer. I managed to dig up the article. Oh yeah. I think that may have been the

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