The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update

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...

This week you might be forgiven for laughing at some of the coverage until you realize how close it hits to home. We start with an issue reported back in 2020 that got no response, but could be set to beat the third-largest fine issued so far under GDPR (both to the same company), and end with something done in the name of security so curious, you’ll have to decide what to call it. From there we p...

This week we hand you the remote so you can explore the latest in what you need to know about IT privacy and security. We start with an unexpected success story and end possibly with fewer Euros in our pockets. We have some incredible updates on China’s creative use of the Internet, the weaponization of a familiar app., and a well-known red teaming tool to test company security that’s probably the...

Presenting a special birthday round-up for you today. From a new law in Italia that will ban facial recognition until the rules surrounding it catch up, to the birth of a new baby who just might grow up to be president! We have some great spy thriller/forensic analysis stories for you this week that will be either reassuring or …  very  disconcerting in their discoveries! We move “down u...

This week we have a refreshing break for anyone in the US who has been bludgeoned with non-stop Political ads for the last two weeks. (These ads are everywhere, TV, the sides of buses, the Internet, radio, and even people’s front lawns.) For our fresh “forget the election” update we start with a “You could not make this up” story again about TikTok, now changing their EU privacy policy to let all...

This week we start down the road of your data collection and discover ways and places it’s being shared that you might never have suspected. Next, we learn who’s included in the hubbub about ransomware and what the ransomware baddies are doing to build greater efficiencies into their exploits. From there we move on to companies with more leaks than a wicker canoe, a submarine screendoor, or a porc...

For this update, it’s all digits to hand. We go from Japan and Iran to Prime deliveries from a van. Allegations of TikTok’s Chinese monitor, e-mail proof that Parler shares monikers while France fines an unrepentant photograph chronicler. We have programming language standings, new Australian fines landing and the malware that Qatar is demanding. And if that bad rap came through clear, we promise...

This week we start in the air and end in the air, with not a care while we are there. We get an update on “Baby Al Capone” who got done for hacking a phone, how your drone might give up your home, a new Turkish law that gets basted, and a card shark who’s wasted. We have Shein getting the boot, hackers for hire facing a suit, a duck update for your next reboot and new AI that identifies a woodland...

James Bond, Mata Hari, and Papa John? This week we look into what today’s liars and spies are up to; from fishing to card sharks, wiretaps to deauthers, stolen keys to firewall upgrades. And in the face of that, we are presented with an Operating System that is bundling higher security and application updates and … supporting it all for 10 years. Publicity stunt? Maybe, but it got our attention! F...

Wooly Mammoth or Ferrari? One’s sprung a leak and the other could feature in the next chapter of a spy novel. It’s not Ke$ha, but Tik Tok following us around these days, as Amazon hits the front page for providing cloud services to a couple of companies better avoided and the NYPD goes dark. If you hate picking the boxes with the “buses and crosswalks” we could have some very good news for you, wh...

This week we are practicing a security technique introduced to us years ago while working with Scotland Yard. “Air Gapping” You can’t get hacked if you are air gapped. So while we are off gapping we update you on a great way not to suffer from MFA fatigue. Then we discover after lots of arm flapping by the US authorities about the Russians and Chinese doing this…they’re doing it too We fly across...

This week we start out fine but falter somewhat when we hear how many healthcare facilities have been breached in the first six months of 2022. Spirits lift with an Uber joke and the reassurance that if you lose your phone but are one of ten thousand lucky travelers across, around, and near, US borders each year, Uncle Sam might just have a full backup of it. We hear how one guy who ran a farm has...

From Tweets to Whistles we’re here to make some noise. You get the latest from Washington DC on “what it has, where it lives or where it came from” and why the U.S. Navy can’t say anything more about UFOs. We serve you a fix that really whacks and a new telecom project that will leave you looking at your phone like it’s a tin can with a piece of string attached. You’ll be amazed by the magic of Me...

From the Depths of the Dark Web to the summit of Mount Everest, we have you covered. In this update, we have a creative idea for what to do with the rellies for the holidays, where the commute may be long but the privacy superb. We have a sensational story of TikTok actually telling the truth and another of Irish authorities objecting to Instagram/Meta business accounts for 13-year-olds. We have a...

From outer space to inner space and a few rotations in between, we spin you right round. Space may be “Where No Man Has Gone Before”, but one woman has and will again. We discover why you are less likely to be locked in a compartment and blasted with targeted ads during your next train ride to Delhi and what Google will track while you are on the tracks. We learn about all the cameras you can buy...

This week we start with a tweet and end with a rap. In between those bookends, we have a sick kid, now healthy, a father who may never recover, a great site to see what the apps on your phone might be up to, and a new champion in the fight for our attention. We have the latest in “secure” smartphones that could end up sounding exactly the opposite by the time you get to the end of our coverage, an...

This week is at least our 100th show and to celebrate, we start in the underwear drawer and end up on the floor in one of the cutest stories about the effects of honey that we have ever seen. We learn about a new hack that reveals the deep secrets of Dishy McFlatFace, and why Zoom took you out for your first meeting with your boss yesterday. There’s an announcement about Amazon’s new comedy show m...