The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update

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...

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...