The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update

This week is all about food, travel, and adventure, where we start abandoned at the altar and end with bizarrely overweight baggage. In between those carefully seasoned toasted sesame seed buns of IT Privacy and Security are a flame-broiled update that shared too much, got shut down, and hacked, a tangy slice of database encryption, a leafy new mobile phone OS, and a large dollop of savory lawsuit...

With a backing track that is probably the worst cover version we have ever heard, we learn what just flew past that  bedroom window. In the US this week the focus has been on our children. Any way you look at it, from school shootings to privacy violations, to destroying the ecological balance of the world we are leaving them to live in, the only way you can describe societies’ actions is bro...

This week we learn why modern romantics sing: “If you like it, then you shoulda put 2FA on it” Yeah, and we go from Bridal veils to white hats and mistaken nails. From Crypto to klepto to dummo and UFO. We even end with an exploding duck. What other blog/podcast gives you that kind of range in a wonderful mix of IT Privacy and Security Updates? None. Zip. Nada. So whether you put on a tux, a brida...

This week in our smash and grab we go from phones to fake followers and end up with a blog writer in tears. We gain a little insight into just how relaxed some US Government officials are with the data of private citizens. Then we wave, we get grabbed, we patch, and we secure. Why… heavens to Betsey! This sounds like the makings of the best IT Privacy and Security Weekly update yet! Let’s pull up...

From the blustery cold volcanic slopes of Iceland to the Freeze you put on Equifax, this week’s update may drop local temps. by several degrees. We apply the heat by moving through downed satellite relays, Vodka DDoS attacks, and the weaponization of Windows event logs. From there we discover the newest US surveillance agency and the latest arms race. Finally, there is the gravitational pull towar...

This week we start with flying bananas(?), before traveling through Spain, China, Russia, Nigeria, and Austria to get a visual carbohydrate count. We consider the secure tweet, break and break into more phones, set new attack records, and nick a few scientists. We find China hacking Europe, the US and UK hacking Russia, Russia hacking Ukraine, and someone hacking Spain. …then we end with a quote o...

You may gain a couple of kilos in this week’s IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update, but we promise it’s got some of the tastiest content yet! We start with what may become the latest rage in M.I.T. degrees and finish with a whisper. In between we find a good reason to organize cold storage, we lose our monkeys, and then as we search for sponges, discover a 2000-year-old computer. Then we see the...

We start with another case of house arrest and end up where? Having our DNA broadcast to Martians ( and we don’t mean those who have saved a hundred grand to fly with Elon ). In between, we have our moods checked by AI, we, along with 2999 others, end up with tummy aches, we take apart a high-end piece of Russian drone technology and we get a court decision on data scraping that could have repercu...

This week we start in traffic and end in traffic. Most is ground-bound but we have been known to flit into low Earth Orbit when our speeds are high enough. From between those bollards, we discover more nighttime glitter, more acronym definitions, and the need for higher quant resistance in our crypto. Still hungry? Our Pi and REDSPICE stories will give you something to chew on, while new Crypto tr...

This week we fly from an apiary to a cuddly puppy. But all is not as it seems: We triple peak before a bout of melancholy and find an unwelcome foe back after a “short break”. We have lawsuits, legal requests, and cameras all divulging way more than they should. We sequence the missing 8% and finally, we have a couple of lists that will turn you into such a security guru that you might be writing...

Ooh… this week we start with rich creamy chocolate and end with a little smile. In between those pleasurable bookends, we get an update on the Lapsus$ soap opera before the movie rights are sold to Hollywood. We learn about printers being hacked to spread the news, and the astounding number and diversity of attacks on communications across Ukraine. We get an update on a tech exodus and a new targe...

This week we dance from Taylor Swift to Arkady Volozh or probably more correctly, from New York to Moscow. We learn about over-reactions at NPM, Facebook, and Microsoft. We share some amazing visuals from NASA, that once you see, you can never unsee, and find the US government reminding each and every one of us that the Ukraine war is now at our door. Finally, we learn about the Securities and Exc...

This week we zoom from your face to space, dodging flying objects as we go. We learn a bit more about Putin’s pre-war prep and its effect on Google and Apple. We discover a new website that helps us deliver a text to one of the millions of Russian citizens who may not have access to different perspectives on the Ukraine invasion. We see an amazing data collection mapped to within 150 meters of whe...

We start by tipping our hats in respect to all those valiantly fighting for democracy in Ukraine. Then we go on an adventure. This one’s going to get our feet dirty. First with a new use for artificial intelligence, and then while we award Apple a “fail” on the very day it launches its latest raft of products. We unearth why 9 women might be the right number for the US supreme court on Internation...

Before we start this week’s update it’s important to acknowledge what is going on in the world around us. There is a physical war involving the attack on Ukraine where the courage and the stamina of the people have engendered new levels of respect and awe, and there is a cyberwar. Both at the direction of one individual. Every single inhabitant on this planet will pay for his decision. Some will l...

This week we discover 15 boxes, a number one app., and end up at the back end of the car. With high compression pistons and rack and pinion steering stabilizing our high adhesion slicks, we roll through a billion faces, pound on Taiwanese bank doors, steal some NFTs, experience Man City in 3D, and come to understand why you should never use pixelation to hide behind when you track a Magpie. Join u...

This week we start and end with Gu in an unabashed attempt to have this update returned in at least fifteen million search queries. In between the Gu at the beginning and the end, we Freeski through TikTok, pull a reverse 1440 to strange noises from cars, do a left side 1080 for Facebook, before ending with a double cork 1620 with a safety grab. Yes, this is the greatest IT Privacy and Security up...

This week we discover where stolen crypto and discarded fishing nets end up and we’re pretty sure you will be surprised by both. We then swim from vigilantes, newspapers, washed NFTs, and crypto-mining before landing on a pile of VB scripts. So put your Astro-boy boots on, grab those speedos and let’s rocket! Find the full transcript for this week's podcast at Discuss. Daml.com

In the week that Neil Young took both Spotify and Joe Rogan to task for spreading Covid misinformation, we start with the hurricane of an army wife scorned and end in the aftermath of Elon Musk moving something from the morning shower to the middle of the multi-lane highway. Gosh. In between that weather front and the next, we find facial recognition, fingerprints, fries, fines, and fight club. We...

We start this week’s update in Wyoming and end in the empty arms of the lovelorn. As we go rolling about between those two endpoints we chance upon gammy QR codes, supercomputers, schoolkids, high anxiety, and a couple of phone apps you won’t want to be installing this season. So let’s jump into the overalls, don our builder’s boots, and put on those safety glasses, as we deconstruct this weeks’,...

In this week’s adventure, we go from Open Source to Open Dish and the perils each face. In between those open ends, we have Kiteworks, bagpipes, Teslas, cakeism, the new Spoof league tables, and perhaps a bit of evidence that “the Great Resignation” of 2021 is also affecting the dark web. Join us as we don our kilts, sporrans, Ghillie brogues, tuck our  Sgian Dubhs into our socks,  and h...

In this week’s update, we take you from lockdown to the end of civilization with the notice that “a smooth sea never made a skilled sailor”. We move “shipshape and Bristol fashion”, through mines, espionage, and corruption. Then, we “make up Leeway” with one big name demanding Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for everyone and a black box that just might be a “shot across the bows” of politicians...

In true year-end, year-start style we wall-run over some of the top hacks of 2021 before turn-vaulting with a 2022 resolution to get fit that has no security or privacy involved except that the whole story should probably be secured and kept private. We backflip onto the LastPass fiasco, corkscrew through a few stories on Apple (is it any wonder they are a three trillion $ company if we cover them...

We start with exactly what happened to your 2022 fridge calendar and end in wet cat food. In between, we get frauded, threatened, discharged, breached, dropped, and schooled. Before you call us on what? For the last pod of 2021, we’ve got you covered with what’s trending in IT Privacy and Security way into 2022. We may stroll out of 2021, but we hit 2022 in a full sprint! Find the full transcript...

Looking for great gifts? We’ve got one person on the team who’s happy to sport the finest in athletic shoewear and would probably happily back them up with a wallet full of corresponding NFTs…. If he could get them…. From that metaverse, we travel across the US to Israel and from there to Uganda to get the down-low on the NSO. We check in on Belgium, Germany, and Ukraine before losing our paycheck...