‘Spear Phishing’ Scammer Demanded Sex Show
We hear about a devastatingly personal 'spear phishing' attack and meet the robots that want to be your friends.
We hear about a devastatingly personal 'spear phishing' attack, where the victim was asked to perform a sex show in order to regain control of her online accounts. Professor Alan Woodward, a cyber security expert at Surrey University, tells us whether attacks like this are becoming more common.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones travels to Edinburgh to meet the robots that want to be friends with you - but are we ready to let them into every area of our lives?
And we find out about a new video game aimed at helping stroke patients regain the use of their hands. The ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ's Zoe Kleinman is joined throughout the programme by Dan Simmons, tech reporter from ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Click and special guest, James Vincent, reporter for tech website The Verge.
(Photo: Silhouette of a man spear fishing at sea. Credit: Getty Images)
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