The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update

This week’s update starts with what some might see as a poke in the eye and could end with really poor enunciation. We have Google intro’ing 8 new domains and getting caught in a .zip. There’s a great story that might have you thinking that HP has moved into home construction when you hear about all the bricks it created over the past couple weeks. We have evidence that the FBI emerged from the lo...

Up North here, it’s Springtime so we start with a deep breath of DNA and finish out of ink, we think! Between here and there we sneeze as we bump into a couple of projects, one that sniffs out unencrypted LTE communication and another that sniffed out the contents of the phone you lost or had taken as evidence by the police. We dab the tears of a former Bytedance executive as he makes allegations...

This week we start smart and end dumb. Potentially somewhat contrary to our other updates. In between we might ultimately have a dumb way to protect a car, a dumb executive who got lucky, and a healthcare company that almost seems to be competing with T-Mobile for most breaches in 2023. There’s a dumb plan by the EU to scan all your messages, and a smart move from Open AI to give you back some pri...

This week we get breached, we get in your head, we go all over the world and then we get a beat-down by the cat. The world of brain scanning coupled with AI is already yielding some very interesting results and we take you into the ganglia of the action. We learn a new stat for a nation-state face-off and frankly, the numbers look a little one-sided. We discover the EU setting “mew” regulations fo...

This week starts with frustrated police in Sweden and finishes in the back pocket of a legal team. We move onto the troubling story of the US National guardsman who, now it transpires, leaked way more than all the toddlers at your child’s preschool, a beer story that is sure to have many of our readers in tears, and a drafty new naming scheme based on weather events. We get great updates from What...

This update starts with the fortune cookie found in the back seat of what might just be the worlds top-selling car. Both have a surprise in store. From there, we have a touching story of how the NYPD is re-adopting a dog called “Spot”. We get an update on an ingenious bit of tomfoolery for Windows users with a new Chrome update and another reason why, if you need your transactions to be private, t...

This update starts in the middle of Interstate 84 and ends with a possible answer as to what’s happening with the ghost orders for bottled water. We hit the road with some car updates; from what might soon be missing from our cars to wait… where is the car? Then we move on to phones, where the Federal Bureau of Investigation has a tip for you the next time you consider topping up at the airport, a...

For this update we start off with our feet solidly on the ground, buried under U.S. tax returns, before shaking it and finishing in outer space. We learn when people discover that you are using NSO’s Pegasus spyware, you’ve got to go shopping for something even more secret. Elon Musk gives us an opportunity to work for him for free while Mandiant divines how North Korea is paying for its latest se...

This week we kick off in Canada and finish in Norway. In between, we hear why the big push to ban TikTok from our phones may be less effective than we think. We get the inside scoop of a malaise that’s hitting Google, Meta, and Amazon… and through them you. There’s an update on the surveillance state that will keep you in the picture literally from your driveway to the 2024 Olympics in Paris. We g...

This week we start in the hacked offices of the US Government and end up being launched off a drone in Africa with a little parachute on our back. In one country we have a government turning off wireless services to catch a perpetrator while in another country wireless service providers are the perpetrators! We have a couple of TikTok updates and an official new bureau in China to mine data …for E...

This week’s update zooms from the moon to your innermost thoughts. We get an update on a shrinking Meta and our shrinking IQs. From Washington DC we learn about probably the most perfect imperfect way to ensure that data protection laws are passed in the coming years. We discover a steganographic breakthrough and an electrifying enzymatic discovery that could revolutionize IT Privacy, Security and...

This week we start on page 7 and finish in with the chickens. We get a little bit of activity from Zoom and a TL;DR for US President Biden’s new National Cybersecurity Strategy. We have a story on AirB&Bs new “banned by association” program and the German government finally pulling the plug on one company’s networking equipment. Then we have an update on the state of video surveillance and end...

From Rosie the Robot to atomic restores… we’ve got you covered. This week we walk out of the UK with Signal and break into our bank with something that’s not even ours. We have good news for those on the witness protection program and a stupid update from LastPass. We discover that the EU and Canada are packing up to leave the TikTok party and we visit LinkedIn as an attack vector. We finish as al...

This week we start in the “fresh produce” section and end up in an empty parking space. For Valentine’s day, we heard that if you really wanted to show your love, you’d forget the dozen roses and hit the supermarket for a dozen eggs. This week we learn what the supermarket got out of that show of affection. The Washington Post clears away some “myths” while Microsoft’s Bing offers up a new take on...

For this special Valentine’s day edition, we have a couple of golden heartfelt stories at opposite ends of the gift-giving spectrum. We have an update on a final breakup that seems to have dragged on and on. There is some insight into how North Korea funds its cyber attacks, and seemingly everything else going on in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. We have a couple of stories on the gath...

Lie down and relax. This week you might need the couch as our readings take you from therapy notes to privacy policies. We have Microsoft burrowing into your computer to find out what version of its software you might be running, and Google serving up addresses you want to avoid. We get a curious question about the Kremlin’s knowledge of what is passing through a “secure messaging system” and a bi...

This is probably one of the most entertaining updates yet, so join us as we take you from the coolest ride to the hottest trend in outsmarting AI CCTV cameras. And then, apparently we have some bad news if you are Austrian, Italian, Dutch or Columbian. We go on to “reasons to be cheerful part 3” with a great LINUX distro that will take care of your updates for years! From the US Government another...

This week we start with a chimp and end closer to doom. Between those two completely unrelated bookends, we get news from phone, security, and payments companies that they let a different animal out of the bag. There is some potentially good news with ransomware payments falling across the world and the Supreme court allowing the anonymous defense of section 230. We have updates from Google and Me...

This week we start with phones and end up phishing... only to discover that neither are “F” words. We sweep from the Netherlands to Canada, China, the U.S., Iran, and Switzerland this week as we get the “up high” and “low down” on everything from Quantum computing to stupid passwords. We’ve got AI chatbots on the verge of harassment, and another breach involving a password manager. We get reminded...

This week we exercise all your senses: from sound and vision to …smell. We have car stories worthy of serious rubbernecking with almost no brand of automobile left out. There’s the NYC school district where teachers have fallen behind the kids in educating themselves. We’re served an update on the quietest tech rollout the fast food industry has probably ever cooked up. And then we get a load of p...

Welcome to year 4 and The IT Privacy and Security Weekly update Buzz for the week ending January 3rd., 2023 This week we go from cookies and keys to bees. We have stories that fly from hardware to… hard-to-secure and even one for the… hard of hearing. Then there’s the latest hive of activity directed at a particular group of foreign exchange students, along with who’s been stung by more privacy fi...

This latest IT Privacy and Security update will keep you right in the heart  of things… from airport travel to petrol scams. There’s a state-of-play update on TikTok, sad Twitter news for Elon, and even sadder Facebook news for the Zuck. We’ve got a couple of urgent updates for Linux and Windows users sprinkled in amidst new malware that has nothing to do with Al Pacino. We even have a t...

In perhaps our juiciest update yet we sink our taste buds into this week’s Holiday cornucopia of flavors. From the North Pole to the South, but mostly in the US, we have a great new way for Santa to check on the condition of his elves, lots of coal to deliver, and one city that might not even make the delivery logistics planning list this year. In the US the Feds are regaling hackers with copious...

In perhaps our brightest update yet, we leap from the uninvited into bright, radiant light. We travel from a somewhat naughty confederation to a blazing anonymous number migration. We receive creative illumination for making deepfakes the “right way” from a group we didn’t even realize was in the film production business. We’ve got Microsoft aglow in a buying spree and then illuminate you with so...

Heavens to Betsey! This week we start with liars and end in a Pepsi Cola loading bay. We discover stuff under our desks, new ways to get into pictures at the airport, and something unexpected flying over our heads. We discover the extent of Telegram’s much-touted privacy even as we give up our own for the sake of a sharper picture and a few more channels. Tim Cook’s team share how an iPhone can sa...