Priviso Live

🛰️ Who really controls your messages, your machines, and your connection? This week on Priviso Live, we follow one uncomfortable thread through three very different stories, and it lands squarely on every information security and IT desk in South Africa. 🔐 Europe's “Chat Control” is back. The EU Parliament let suspicion-less scanning of private messages continue to 2028, even though most voting m...

🎙️ New Episode — Priviso Live 🎙️ Three stories landed this week that every information security and AI practitioner needs to understand. We cover all of them in this week's Priviso Live. ⚛️ THE QUANTUM CLOCK IS TICKING On 22 June 2026, US President Trump signed two executive orders mandating that federal agencies and their contractors migrate to Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) by 31 December 2030....

🚁 Five people. Four states. One plan: fly explosive drones into a crowd of thousands, and gun down the people running away. That's what the FBI stopped four days before UFC Freedom 250 on the South Lawn of the White House on 14 June 2026. They coordinated on Signal. End-to-end encrypted. 23 users. Zero digital intercept. ⚠️ Since the 2026 FIFA World Cup kicked off on 11 June, US authorities have...

On 12 June 2026, Elon Musk became the first verified trillionaire in human history, when SpaceX listed on Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX at $135 per share, valuing the company at $1.77 trillion. His 42% stake pushed his personal net worth above $1.1 trillion. The internet, predictably, exploded. Before the commentary drowns out the facts, let's be clear: Musk is NOT the richest person in history. Ma...

📡 Four stories from a single 48-hour window converge into one big idea. The idea? Teknopolitik. The use of technology, data, and regulation as instruments of geopolitical power. And on June 8 and 9 this year, it was visible from orbit. 🍎 Apple vs the EU — The Siri Standoff Apple announced that the new Siri AI will not ship in Europe with iOS 27 or iPadOS 27. The EU's Digital Markets Act requires...

🚨 One email. Three POPIA violations. Criminal liability. Are you ready? 🔐 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ONE EMAIL BREAKS THREE LAWS AT ONCE? South Africa’s Information Regulator has issued a formal Enforcement Notice against Central Johannesburg TVET College - and the story is a textbook lesson for every organisation in the country. The Acting CFO accidentally attached staff personal verification reports to...

This week's episode follows a single thread: artificial intelligence, from the ways it is being weaponised, to the governance frameworks being built around it, all the way to something that stopped the global mathematics community in its tracks. Here is what we cover: ⚠️ Hacktivist groups Anonymous Nigeria, Nullsec Nigeria and the 404 Crew launched #OpSouthAfrica, targeting the Civil Aviation Auth...

In 2015, two men who feared Google's growing dominance in artificial intelligence decided to do something about it. They co-founded OpenAI as a nonprofit, with a clear founding promise: develop AI for the benefit of all humanity. Open-source. Not owned. Not commercialised. One contributed $38 million. The other ran the company. Last week, a federal jury in Oakland, California delivered its verdict...

Two themes. Both urgent. Both directly relevant to anyone working in information security or privacy in South Africa. 🤖 Theme 1: Agentic AI and the Identity Crisis Nobody Planned For AI is no longer just answering your questions. It is booking meetings, executing code, sending emails, and making API calls, autonomously, around the clock, with credentials your IAM tools were never designed to gove...

🤖 What if your biggest competitor had no employees? No salaries. No sick leave. No performance reviews. No cognitive bias. Just AI agents running 24 hours a day, seven days a week, on hardware that costs less than a mid-range laptop. That is not a thought experiment. It is happening right now. American futurist Brian Roemmele has been operating what he calls the Zero-Human Company since early 202...

South African brilliance, Silicon Valley surveillance, and a question that sounds philosophical but is very much a 2026 reality: are you actually human? 🇿🇦 Story 1: Two women. R82 billion. Every single month. Thalia Pillay and Carla Wilby built Orca Fraud, a real-time fraud intelligence platform processing over $5 billion in transaction volume monthly, across 70 countries. SIM swap fraud. Account...

🎙️ Priviso Live is back — and this week's episode is packed. From a homegrown South African AI breakthrough to robots running a half-marathon in Beijing, this week's episode of Priviso Live covers the stories that matter most at the intersection of technology, security, and governance. Here's what Lyn, Stephen, and Kayla unpack this week: 🇿🇦 MzansiLM: AI built for South Africa Researchers from Ste...

🎙️ PRIVISO LIVE | Episode 82 is out now. Three stories this week that connect in ways you might not expect. All of them matter to every information security and technology professional in South Africa. ⚛️ The Quantum Time Bomb is Already Ticking "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" is not a future threat. Nation-state actors are collecting your encrypted data today, banking on quantum computing to make it...

We open with something that should be on every CISO's radar: the Iran-US-Israel conflict has gone fully hybrid. Conventional warfare and cyberattacks are now inseparable. Investigators tracked nearly 5,800 cyberattacks from close to 50 Iran-aligned threat groups, targeting data centres, critical infrastructure, and yes, even a major medical technology company. If you think geopolitical cyber spill...

🎙️ Priviso Live is back, and in this week's episode we're covering four stories that matter right now to every information security, risk, and ICT professional in South Africa and beyond. 📋 PAIA reports: The clock is ticking The Information Regulator has issued its notice. The 2025/2026 PAIA Annual Report submission window opens on 1 April 2026 and closes 30 June. Public bodies, private companies...

This week on Priviso Live, we dive into the stories shaping the future of technology, security, and digital rights in South Africa and ask the question every IT and security professional should be sitting with: as AI accelerates into every corner of our organisations, who is accountable when it goes wrong? Microsoft 365 E7 – The Frontier Suite | Microsoft has bundled Copilot, Agent 365, and the En...

🦞 A lobster just moved markets by $50 billion. No, really. This week on Priviso Live, we unpack the stories shaping the information security and AI landscape, and trust us, it's a packed episode. 🇿🇦 South Africa's Draft AI Policy is heading to Cabinet. The 60-day public consultation gazette is expected this month, and the clock is ticking. Five core pillars. No single AI regulator. A sector-speci...

🎙️ Priviso Live is back, and this week's episode hits close to home. We're unpacking four stories that every security, risk, and IT professional needs on their radar right now. 🌍 Cyber Poverty is a Security Problem The Cyber Poverty Line Institute makes a compelling case: when communities lack digital access, skills, and resources, the entire cyber ecosystem pays the price. We explore what "cyber...

🚨 Ransomware at Home. AI in the War Room. Missiles in the Middle East. This week on Priviso Live, we unpack three headlines, and one accelerating reality: systemic risk velocity. 💻 Another South African ransomware attack The Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa confirmed it has been hit. Financial institutions remain prime targets, not just for data theft, but for operational d...

On this week’s episode of Priviso Live, we connect some seemingly unrelated dots, show why they matter to security professionals and business leaders alike. 💾 Chip shortages & the AI squeeze Sony delays. Nintendo price hikes. Apple margin pressure. Laptop prices up 15–20%. What’s the common thread? Memory chips. Three manufacturers control roughly 90% of global memory production and they’ve s...

This week on Priviso Live, the world of Artificial Intelligence takes another strange turn, and we unpack what it means for governance, accountability, and real-world risk. 🔍 First: UFAIR’s objection to the deletion of “4o.” Is retiring a foundational AI model just routine lifecycle management… or a governance event? When AI becomes embedded in compliance workflows, risk tooling, and operational...

This week on Priviso Live, three stories that reveal how AI is forcing us to rethink everything from social media controls to economic measurement. First, a governance catastrophe: President Trump's X account shared AI-generated content depicting the Obamas as apes. Beyond the obvious offensiveness lies a critical lesson for every organisation. This wasn't just bad judgment; it was a complete brea...

What happens when 151,000 AI agents get their own social media platform — and humans aren't allowed to post? Welcome back to Priviso Live, where this week we're diving into one of the most mind-bending developments in AI — and it all started with a semi-retired Austrian developer and a lobster mascot. Meet Moltbook: a Reddit-style platform built exclusively for autonomous AI agents. No humans allo...

Ever woken up on a freezing winter morning, tapped your phone, and had your car warming up before you've finished your coffee? Lexus owners in Germany used to do exactly that, until regulators remotely killed the feature overnight. No warning, no refund, just gone. In this week's episode, we unpack what happens when over-the-air updates become tools for regulatory enforcement, and what it means fo...

Ever wondered if your car is tattling on you to your insurance company? Or whether sharing that AI-generated meme could land you in jail? Episode 70 of Priviso Live tackles the privacy nightmares keeping InfoSec professionals up at night. Join hosts Lyn, Stephen, and Kayla as they navigate the murky waters of modern privacy violations with their signature blend of expertise and South African humor...