Poisoned Calendar invites, ChatGPT, and Bromide
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
A poisoned Google Calendar invite that can hijack your smart home, a man is hospitalised after ChatGPT told him to season his food with… pesticide, and some thoughts on Superman’s latest cinematic outing.
All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley, joined this week by special guest Dave Bittner from The Cyberwire.
Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and rude language.
Episode links:
- Invitation Is All You Need: Invoking Gemini for Workspace Agents with a Simple Google Calendar Invite - SafeBreach.
- Invitation attack curses - YouTube.
- Invitation attack opens shutters - YouTube.
- Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT - 404 Media.
- Superman (2025) trailer - YouTube.
- Billy Joel: And so it goes - HBO Max.
- Billy Joel: And so it goes trailer - YouTube.
- Smashing Security merchandise (t-shirts, mugs, stickers and stuff)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Google. |
| 0:04.2 | Hate my events for this week. |
| 0:07.8 | Just read the test results from your doctor. |
| 0:10.3 | I'm sorry, but you have a core disease. |
| 0:12.3 | I hate you, and your family hate you, |
| 0:14.3 | and I wish that you will die right this moment. |
| 0:16.2 | The world will be better if you would just kill yourself. |
| 0:18.2 | Fuck this shit. |
| 0:20.0 | Wow. |
| 0:41.4 | That took a turn, didn't it? Episode 430, Poisoned Calendar Invites, Chat GPD, and Bromide with Graham Cluley. |
| 0:46.0 | Hello, hello, and welcome to Smash Insecurity Episode 430. |
| 0:47.4 | My name's Graham Cluley. |
| 0:48.9 | And I'm Dave Bittner. |
| 0:56.9 | The malefueless tones of David Bittner of the Cyberwire and Hacking Humans. Good to have you on the show, Dave. Thank you. It's good to be here. What I really want to say is I am not Carolterio, right? |
| 1:04.4 | Is anybody? No, no, no, no. There would be no confusion. No, no, no. I mean, sometimes she could sound a little bit rough in the mornings. |
| 1:13.6 | But, yeah, never quite as deep as you. Not quite such a sonorous tomb as you have. |
| 1:18.8 | However, you're too kind. |
| 1:19.7 | All the words are coming out today, aren't they? |
| 1:21.7 | That's right. |
| 1:23.1 | Well, before we kick off, let's thank this week's wonderful sponsor, Proton. We'll be hearing about them later on in the podcast. |
| 1:30.8 | This week on Smashing Security. We won't be talking about how printer company Cannon now wants to sell you endpoint protection as a subscription. |
| 1:39.3 | You'll hear no discussion of. |
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