The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update

Episode 202. This week we start with a new use for your face and end with a cautionary tale about keeping a safe distance when looking for true love. Then we get up early in the morning and discover that in trying to keep you secure, Microsoft gave you a broken multi factor authenticator.  (thanks Microsoft). After that, it’s more love, but a love you will have to suppress if Ford’s patent takes o...

Episode 201 This week we have bookends for gearheads. A book for Ferrari and a booking for GMC. Our second story is so incredible that even we had to read it twice. Our question is: “Would you ever use an exchange run by people so stupid?” Your house just got robbed.  We have the detail your wifi Camera didn’t pick up. We’ve got some good news for you as you pass through US airports, and bad news...

Episode 200 The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update and the End of Personal Privacy in the US for the Week Ending July 23rd., 2024 7/23/2024 0 Comments  Episode 200 - Click the pic to hear the podcast - This week we start with the end. The end of personal privacy in the US.  Join us to discover how everyone from Larry Ellison to your letter carrier has compromised you. ​ We have the culprit name...

Episode 199    ​From the millions here on Earth to the second planet from the Sun we keep you up to date with all the latest and most important escapades in IT Privacy and Security. We start with the good news that although AT&T may not be selling your phone location data (if you opted out) they have still been sharing it.  We tell you what and when. CNN provides some investigative reporting t...

  Episode 198 This week we start with a road trip in Cali to the library... and something about that drive that everyone seems to be missing. Next we travel from the depths of the oceans back into low Earth orbit and why the EU datacenters in space research might just have something to plug into. Then we go overdue when we check the card catalogue for AI and discover poor security. There’s a new u...

Episode 196    Oops!! We start by reading your emails and finish with your significant other reading you the riot act. Over in Germany, TeamViewer gets a visit from a cozy bear… While in Santa Cruz a lightbulb’s worth of energy is running a chatbot. Google has growing datacenter flatulence and GE gets free and easy with the classified data it’s er… well.. emitting. We get some creepy insight into...

Episode 195 Check your tires and adjust your pedals because this update could get you back “on Yer bike” In our first story we learn how deep and wide the river of collected car information is, and in our last, exactly how that detail was delivered. You may be as surprised as we were to find out who is riding the prologue into this stream of information. We get a painful puncture from the National...

Episode 194   From your car to your new home... this week has something for everyone. We start with a data reseller that will become more and more a target if rising car insurance premiums are anything to aim at. We follow with two stories of exposed client data. The aftermath was handled differently in both cases and we think you should tell us which you’d prefer. From there its off to Singapore...

Filling the hole in your Memory with the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the Week Ending June 11th., 2024 6/11/2024 0 Comments - click the pic to hear the podcast -   Episode 193 For this update we start and finish with some spectacular areal shots of things we probably shouldn’t be seeing. We bump into a familiar issue with extensions. This one isn’t browser extensions, but something th...

Episode 192 This week we go looking for help and discover something else entirely. We start by being turned away from a London hospital because of something spread by a sick corporate partner. Then we move onto background checks. Perhaps soon potential employers won’t need to run them, they’ll just look you up on the dark web. From there Google springs a leak. Honestly, whoever is handling their P...

Episode 191 This week we detonate a mix of updates starting south of the U.S. border, following a tremor into the roots of DNS and then colliding into the 5 precincts of New York City. We have the incendiary tale of the Mexican cartels and how a hack spilled light on who is arming them. Next, like our root DNS server, we explode with the 411 on just what another outage of that server could mean to...

Episode 190. This week we start with a tale that will bring happiness to every University Students’ mother. We follow with another that has one woman fuming while everyone involved claims it was a coincidence. There is an update on the tattletale car story and the short, sharp, slap that lawmakers gave automakers recently. We find out the name of the company whose employee was tricked into a $25 m...

Episode 189.  Ever feel like you are being followed? This week we have both Apple and Google making efforts to quell that effect.   We have leak updates from two sources that should be among the last to ever have to send out breach notices.  One a computer manufacturer and the other a US Government agency. From there, its on to the latest craze in extortion and what you can do to secure against it...

Episode 188 This week we blast off with a couple of stories that would make movies like Top Gun and Armageddon appear tame in comparison. This just might be where reality surpasses fiction. From there we move to a couple of US healthcare providers that are doing their utmost to help other nation states get familiar with your particulars. One was an actual breach but the other was just dumb. Then w...

Episode 187 Flames leap from the IT Privacy and Security news this week... from trick TVs to leaky telephones. We flare up with a story about US Senator Ron Wyden chasing a Google TV “quirk” that could grant access to your Gmail. Then from the embers we hear scraping noises. This time Discord is the target and you are the payload. From there it’s insecure Chinese keyboard apps. And the millions of...

Episode 186 Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane! It’s... your insurance company!?!? This week we have stats and stories that will leave you gasping, and that’s good because you’ll have a chance to catch your breath during our spring break over the next couple weeks. We start this update up there, in the sky, and the novel new way insurance companies are finding to lower risk and increas...

Episode 185  This week’s update starts out leaking like an old bucket, but gets patched up pretty good. We start with our friends at AT&T and yet more mobile phone subscriber detail launched out onto the dark web. Is it playing catch up with another mobile service provider? An almost shocking update from the Department of Homeland Security that they are halting the purchase of your location da...

Episode 184. It’s the last last episode this month, and if “March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb” then we have the wild in these updates running backwards. We start with an absolutely stupid way to save five bucks. Cut coupons, buy off-brands but don’t try to save money with Telegram’s new money saving offer. Next we move onto a story about how the YouTube algorithm could get you ad...

Episode 183  In our sweetest update yet, we go from “Jam” to chocolate as we cover all subtle flavors and nuances of IT Privacy and Security. Then for our second story we have an EU member in trouble with GDPR with what some would call complete disregard for the regulation they helped create. In the third story of our update we explain the two things you should be aware of as you scroll through Ti...

Episode 182 This week we take you from credential stuffing to whistle-blowing by way of a bolted horse. We start with the compromise of your beloved Roku account and no more vivid a lesson on the value of unique passwords. From there it’s on to closing the barn doors after the horse has bolted with the US’ new report on controls for AI. Airbnb takes you off camera for your next rental while the EU...

For this episode we go searching for the needle in the haystack and it appears that someone or something in our fourth story found it! But we end Q1 with what we end every Q1 with in the US. Taxes. And relief that the already onerous tax prep process that so many have to have buy special software for just to complete, now asks you for permission to sell your data …. and how you can avoid it. Ameri...

Episode 180. The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update Loses the Car for the week ending February 27th., 2024 This week one vendor announced we’d be getting post-Quant encryption for our messages, while another works feverishly to ensure we can find our car when we are done at the supermarket. We have a discovery at one vending machine that does its tracking while you are snacking. We shine some n...

 This week’s update is our most exciting yet: You get driving lessons that help you fix security. A new class of black hat AI that can hack websites on its own. A suggestion that you keep your thought crimes to a minimum if you want to keep your job New malware that will steal your face. The US Department of Justice (sorry U.S. only) logging into our routers and removing malware A John Deere tract...

It’s that time of year again when love is in the air and this week’s update will be as embracing as a hug from Taylor Swift after a big Super bowl win. We start with a great misstep story about a hypothetical bot infection of millions of toothbrushes that is sure to leave a glint in your eye and a grin on your face. - click the pic to hear the podcast - As we recover from all the betting ads being...

This week we start with your dear Gran.  When’s the last time you called her to see how she was doing? ​After our first update we hope that call will happen within the next day or two.  From there we move to a model corporate citizen in CloudFlare and discover further repercussion from last year’s Okta Breach and a remote desktop solution that could almost use their breech as a PR exercise. We are...