The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update

In a year when holiday parties are giving more than anyone bargained for in the form of new covid variants, colds, flu, and a whole range of bacterium that we had deftly sidestepped for the better part of the last 18 months, we have lots of healthy updates for you. We start them with the V-POTUS and end with 2022 trends. In between, we touch on Androids, Canadians, and Apaches before discovering T...

As we come to the end of another tough year with… how many new Covid variants? It’s important to remind ourselves that the holidays are peak feeding season for the hack, crack and malware miscreant community. So no, there are no “surprise” Amazon gift cards coming to you and… that attachment is only going to blow up on the Windows machine and steal your secrets. Remember to initiate all outbound c...

This week we start with that face in the mirror and end in an SUV. In between we have hacks, tracks, and attacks on printers and boom boxes, we get a couple of serious cloud plays, and a whole new malware variant aimed at the medicine men (and women). Finally, we learn how one spy agency has had to “become more open to stay secret”. No big boots for this adventure, no loud colors or clashing patte...

For this IT Privacy and Security adventure, and this must surely be the best one yet, we start at the Costco checkout and end up in space. In between the check-out and the way-out we get a quick reminder about online safety in the run-up to Black Friday, we get an update on how one group is working to make software secure, app tracking protection for Android, and tips to foil the Memento hacking t...

We start this week tunefully with a story we missed out of the Pwn2Own challenge that will have you headbanging in the aisles before fulfilling a request for more oil for r2D2. In between, we learn why bragging could end up getting you poorly fed, why popular programming languages could be bad for IoT devices, why you can’t really complain if you see giant cutouts of boats in the desert and we won...

This is the best IT Privacy and Security weekly update yet! We start up in the warm breezes over Texas and Georgia and finish in the cool Pacific waters off the coast of California. In between, we hit the power grid, poke at a new political privacy protection law, slap Facebook, then Samsung, and then somewhat in disbelief … watch as Samsung slap back (yes, just read that privacy policy that came...

This is the most “detective” update ever! Inside this week’s update, we inspect over-communication in Chinese manufactured telecoms equipment., and under communication from an info systems agency. We broadcast seed planting clips from outside our car prior to a deep dive into the methods used by the FBI to ascertain the Jan 6th. Insurrectionists in Washington DC. We discover fake ads, fake crypto,...

Like watching Lionel Messi score his 100th goal, some of the stories we cover here seem almost un-be-lieva-ble! We jump into the game in Argentina and finish in South Korea. Scoring heavily we witness an own-goal, a red-card in the UK, travel to the top and bottom of the league tables, get punched in the mouth, breached, hacked, cracked, arrested, and then, then in what may be the worse fate of al...

From new and innovative ways to introduce facial recognition, to looking through walls, we have you covered, (or perhaps uncovered)! We start our journey in subterranean Moscow, move on to a sweetie factory in Chicago, and then into your dentist’s office. From there, AI leaves us spinning before we discover the top 3 locations for mining Bitcoin and a new competitor in the Texan insurance market....

October is Cyber awareness month; coincidentally it is also the one month in twelve that has the highest number of reported cyber attacks. So how do we acknowledge that? By irreverently engaging drinks, food, and fashion. While others rush out to the shops to buy everything baggy, those in the know have security tighter than a fresh pair of Burberry leggings. For our show we have free beers on the...

In this week’s IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update, we journey from the bottle to your heart. We start with the loss of identity, ethics, freedom, dollars, Bitcoin, and Etherium before balancing them out with new finds in cloud, storage, cleaning, and rain. Finally, we end with a story of synchronicity that will have your heart racing! It’s all fresh, it’s all relevant, and …you won’t need to ca...

From audio to visual we keep the full spectrum of IT Privacy and Security covered in our best update yet! We start with almost nothing at all and move on to blocks, breaches, bots, and smacks.  We cover why it’s more important to tip your Amazon delivery person than ever before.  And finally, we round out why you are actually going to want security training before the fourth quarter of t...

This week we start our podcasts’ one-year anniversary edition with the sweet sound of violins lilting across the Tuscan hillsides and end in New Jersey to the sounds of barking dogs. Ah, but between those two audible notes, we travel to Spain, France, Ireland, and the UK before moving on to Thailand and circling across to Russia and the US. Get your vaccine certificates out, your passports in hand...

This week it’s all about wearables. Be they on your nose, wrist, ring finger, back pocket, or further south they are collecting just about all the …er … data you can generate. We start this week with Facebook “trying it on” before moving one step closer to their metaverse. We hit you with news on the Biggest DDoS attack ever, before getting bleary-eyed as we learn what happened to the bride (or gr...

We start this week’s journey at the site of the Twin towers in New York before moving to Russia, and then to Germany and then, a little bit late, to the airport before boarding our flight for Australia, Scotland, Pakistan, Ireland, and China. Then, in the haze of jet lag, the American military finally leaves us with no words. Grab your go-bag, passport, vaccination certificate, pillow, and let’s d...

In our most childish update, we bring you the up high, low down, and all the topics shaking around us. We start with one of the most entertaining helicopter chases we have ever heard, move through 58 websites, then into an Airbnb, a swimming pool, where drenched, we embark on a transatlantic chase, a breach, a leak, an upgrade, and finally finish with a boat. If you weren’t out of breath from all...

This is the Jailbreak edition. We start with an example of the quickest way to end up in prison, a story of an inmate made good and of course, we end up right back in the clink in what must be one of the worst hacker “job applications” in history. In between those rough-and-tumble walls, we have insight on one country’s cyber curriculum, your streaming service’s second income, OnePerCent, the pote...

If the single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it and the “camera is a license to explore” then let’s hit the motor drive because we’ve got a lot of scenery to cover! We start with an appetite so large for taking pictures that consumer interest groups are now asking for receipts. We move on to dadada and password reuse, the inflationary pressure on phishing, and a s...

We start with an aerobic workout that may have you leaning on a wall … and end with a wag as to why your dog may be propped up against a wall. In between, there are rooms of fantastic stories for you with flytraps and Instagrams and even a sprinkling of Emmental cheese. We’ve got an appeal to put the phone down that might be that call you never wanted to receive, and a risk profiler that could kee...

We are firing all rockets, starting down-under with a report on a pocket calculator that may inspire a whole generation (to write secure code). From there we orbit to Italia where you might need a “shot” of espresso before their news. Then it’s on to Raccoons and their role in the new SaaS, before touching down in France and Luxembourg to see who’s hands have been slapped. We Zoom into why you mig...

As we put this update together there is a haze outside our New York Windows from the raging fires burning 2400 miles (about 4000 kilometers) to the west. Yet we start in a lighthearted mood, with a great reason to use 2fa, and finish with a burning update about the loss of something that may be even more important than your Privacy and Security. In between, we have a mix of stories that range from...

This week it’s all about food. Well, some of it is, anyway. We start with too many cooks in the kitchen and end with positive prospects for cheeseburgers on Mars. Moving through the meal have all our ducks in a row with a possible bit of overcompensation from the US government on Cybersecurity, a huge leak out of Israel, three Apple stories, a food fight between the US and China, and cyber threats...

This episode has us quaking in our wellies. We’ve got the US president advising Russia that they need to fix their ransomware use, while he advises that you should be able to fix your own phone … and tract’r! A new algo. to help with your recommendations, AI that can say stuff bett’rn we can, and a new clampdown that will have you selling your DiDi and Baba shares faster than a jackrabbit in a fox...

We start this week as a dot on a race track and end as a dot on the horizon as we go from privacy to no privacy at all, but … we think you will forgive us. In between the start and finish lines are the hairpin turns of the Tokyo Olympics, an underwater primer on Submarine cabling, a vault skyward with British Airways, a VR story that needs a restart, a bit of ransomware, and enough car stories to...

This week we take you from an employer that won’t even let you in the building if you are not smiling, to your best friend when there is just … one… CCTV too many. In between, we get a loud warning for publicly accessible Western Digital personal storage, a couple of painful admissions from Microsoft, and US phone users getting shaken and stirred. In the mix, we also have a place for you to jump i...