LockerGnome: SecurityDaily tech news worth retelling: the drama, the hackery, the odd builds and the people behind them.https://lockergnome.com/A fake South Park episode on torrent sites was a 118 KB program wrapped in 886 MB of junkhttps://lockergnome.com/fake-south-park-torrent-malware/https://lockergnome.com/fake-south-park-torrent-malware/A self-hoster who blogs as Thereallo found a new South Park episode stuck in his media server's queue, and it wasn't an episode at all.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 21:00:00 GMTSecuritysecuritymalwaretorrentsHackers took over supermarket fridges across Europehttps://lockergnome.com/hackers-took-over-supermarket-fridges/https://lockergnome.com/hackers-took-over-supermarket-fridges/Overnight into Monday, October 12, someone broke into the refrigeration controls of French supermarkets and set the fridges to heat.Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTSecuritysecurityiotA smart coffee maker sent 1TB over its owners' Wi-Fi in 10 days, and nobody knows whyhttps://lockergnome.com/smart-coffee-maker-1tb-wifi/https://lockergnome.com/smart-coffee-maker-1tb-wifi/A coffee maker has one job, and uploading isn't it.Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:00:00 GMTSecuritysmart-homesecurityA printed sign can steer a self-driving car, and the AI reads it as an orderhttps://lockergnome.com/printed-sign-steers-self-driving-car/https://lockergnome.com/printed-sign-steers-self-driving-car/Researchers at UC Santa Cruz and Johns Hopkins got the AI models that steer self-driving cars and drones to obey commands written on a sign held up in front of the camera.Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:34:00 GMTSecurityaicarssecurity