The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update

Episode 167 This week we start with the dollar bill ranking of the top US Universities for earnings potential We then throw some light on a global disappearing act, first the presenters and then a whole developer conference. This is one you have to hear to believe! From there, in our third story, it’s a thumbs down for the security that fingerprint reader on your laptop is delivering. In at four i...

Episode 166 This week we have a revelation related to a world famous someone who has managed to avoid arrest through the careful application of privacy. We reveal how that may now be at an end. We share how a phone manufacturer who promised to bring Apple’s iMessage to Android ended up with “Nothing” From there a new revelation about how the US Government is using our phones to compromise our priv...

Episode 165 This week we let the cat out of the bag with the FTCs probe into one databroker’s dealings. We follow with our second update that has a cat on a hot tin roof … of your car and just what the automobile manufacturers are collecting from you that is available to the police, but not you. For story three we swing the cat ‘round to the EU to find out a bit more about QWACs, while in Australi...

Episode 164 This week we let you know why you feel so great after staying up all night with us. For our second story, we move into one of the world’s most prestigious resorts only to get no sleep because of its leaks. Our third update covers the blackout of about 31% of the Australian mobile market. In at number four is the nightmare of just how easily a study found it to be to obtain Sensitive Pe...

​We start with the perils of sharing too much on social media and feeling like there's just no recovering from that last round of plastic surgery. Then we touch on a story of an unexpected right hook from the SEC that left one CISO seeing stars.   We smell trouble with high numbers of shortened web addresses being delivered by email, text and message apps. for our third story. At four and five...

For our first story we put on our resting witch face and join the Mozilla Foundation as they reveal their new privacy creep-o-meter. We’re raising spirits in the art community with our second story of the “deadly” Nightshade that might kill off AI replicating your artwork. In story three witches be trippin’ over 23andMe data from another 4 million clients. What a nightmare! The star of our fourth...

Episode 161. In this week’s IT Privacy and Security weekly update... On  first  base is an exciting new use case for AI that will leave you feeling great! On  second  is an update on the largest DDoS attack ever, what it is and what it could mean to you. ​ Third  at bat the US pitches a plan for other countries to adopt a policy of no payments for ransomware. Back at  home plate  we have the newes...

Episode 160. In this week’s IT Privacy and Security weekly update: ​ We start this week with a pause of remembrance to all those innocents caught up in the wars raging across the world. Often the highest price is paid by the most innocent. October may be Cybersecurity month, but in the run-up to the holidays, we think it could also be  “Call your grandparents month”  too. Why? We have an eye opene...

This week we rip the lid off privacy starting with a story about a quiet plan in the UK to catch shoplifters that could end up stealing something critical from us all. From there we share a story from LA where popular food delivery robots are delivering much more than your order. Next on the slate is the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act lawsuit against some names more familiar to...

We’d like to start by letting you know that we are taking our first pod-break in over 3 years. We’ll be heading up to the highlands to ruminate before returning on the 3rd. of October. It’s a perfect time to catch up on some of our previous pods Thank you for joining in for the last 157 episodes and we look forward to serving up many more! In this week’s IT Privacy and Security weekly update, epis...

This week it's all about the party and the recovery. We start with the NYPD flying into your party. And end with something that may make all sorts of survellience tech obsolete, for good or for bad. We move onto a blinding new revelation from the UK government and an unexpected verdict out of Texas. From there we go phishing with GoDaddy and discover that some high costs to Germany turn out to...

This week we have a terrific collection of stories for you along with some friendly reminders. As we navigate the heavens we touch on 2FA, Social Media and Rust. We get some interesting insight on the U.S. College Board that all high school students would mark as a “fail”. We discover the perils of a familiar piece of conferencing software and a new initiative from the Taliban that has more than o...

​Get your passport ready, because this week we ignore the Amalfi coast and head straight for the real action! Out of Zurich we have news of Google and a new FIDO2, before heading off to Canada and a wild assertion for a bank there about targeting children's parents. We present the QR code you knew would come, Tesla's insider dealing and how China leveraged Japan's porosity. We bounce b...

This update quite literally “flies” from one end of the globe to the other. We’ve got great updates for your teens out of Boston and Las Vegas, a great primer on finding out what is in some of the privacy policies you are signing off on and a sneaky bit of data collection coming from chip-maker Intel. We have the looming threat of what the UK’s demand for unencrypted encrypted communications might...

This week surprisingly starts with a couple of building maintenance callouts:  one for a flashing X on the roof and the other for a rat in the kitchen. We then feel the jolt of new, shorter breach reporting requirements and solve the mystery of what happened to your air miles. Google confounds us with a little more control over everything it is collecting on us, while White Castle may be consideri...

This week we suggest new habits to improve your security and lengthen your life. We have a friendly update on what that Nigerian Prince who wanted to give you money a few years back is up to now, and what he might be up to shortly if he gets his hands on the latest batch of PHI to go missing. The US and EU are both keeping an eye on a curious new appetite from one party for old chips, a new coin u...

This week we are smiling at some of the greatest stories to grace the headlines.  We literally go from a launch to a cover up, but in between we have all lovely gooey sticky filling that will keep you coming back to the cookie jar. There's an update from Google on your Gmail, that just might be worth the privacy tradeoff (come on, they read all your mail anyway), Now they additionally want to...

In this week’s update, we start and end on TikTok, but the bookends could not be more different. We have one of the most important updates on how you can protect your family and friends from the latest AI scam that's already gone global. Then we dance between more revelations from who’s viewing who, to one presenter who lost more than her TikTok audience. There’s a brazen story covering one la...

This week we have a prime serving of updates for you, we start with artificial intelligences' decline and end, frankly a little loopy, but you are sure to find a story in our global round up that makes a difference to your life, even if it is only to keep you from tripping. We start with a mother's photo of her son and the upsetting news that he might have been created with AI.  From there...

In this week’s update, we flutter from “ almost everything” to the butterfly effect. In between those extremes, we find a little tit-for-tat going on between the US and China that could impact everything from your cloud compute to your phone. We have facial recognition software being rejected by performers and embraced by you local shops. From there the sad story of the CISO first attacked by a na...

This week we start with a story that we’ve had to reread three times because it was just so unbelievable. From there we move onto what you are doing with your phone that a small number of years ago used to take some pretty hefty specialized equipment. We stick to phones in a global round up of details on another scheme to compromise you through it, advice from the Australian government as to what...

We start with some serious dissing and end up dishing. Between the start and end state, we get served up by Julia and rerouted by the Benz. We learn about a new voicebox that we can’t have and get the perfect example of a self-licking ice cream cone. We have new controls on what can be sold and to whom and a new way to use that screwdriver to unlock your Lenovo. Finally, we have a group of Swiss f...

From the cool waters of the backyard pool to the chilling depths of cylindrical holes in the ground, this week’s stories will elevate your temperature to get you in that summertime mood. We commute to work past a copycat chip shop and then get an update on why the unemployment rate for lobbyists is still at all-time lows in Washington DC. We catch Microsoft being naughty, while Google and Apple go...

This week’s exciting collection of stories takes us from the latest fashionable freeze to the warmth of a fuzzy paparazzo. We have a “stand up, sit down, stand up” again revelation about our friends at TikTok that will leave you …well either sitting or standing… and a couple of Ai stories that describe the horse bolting from the stall and then what that horse did. There’s a little relief for those...

This week we go from excess baggage to a face that is not our own. We have a new scheme to establish what is real in a world where more and more is artificial, by someone we expect to be very prominent in both. There’s a new declaration about social media that is eerily similar to the one from Santa Cruz California on June 3, 1956, when city authorities announced a total ban on rock and roll at pu...