The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update

How are you feeling today?  Good, we hope!  We are starting this week’s update with healthcare and ending with an insurance story in a journey that blows right past the doctors’ office. In between buildings, your coveted iPhone 12 gets a lesson in how to improve battery life and then gets hacked. We have great gossip about the Gab hack and one more amazing story about SolarWinds that wil...

This week we move from the farm to the hospital, and all hopefully injury-free. We’ve got another “kikerikii, jippiyayyeyyy, boomchikahwoowoow”from Zoom, stalking Favicons, and why you might not want to do your personal banking during your conference calls. We even have the lowdown on the hot new invite-only app that you… somehow got an invite for… and have been using non-stop for the last couple...

What do you do if you’re in a country where there are zero officially reported cases of Covid-19 and you have no vaccine research budget? Officially, you don’t need the vaccine, but unofficially… you might be open to the idea of stealing the secret recipe for one! This week we have a supply-side chain attack that could hit anyone using open source software pretty hard. A French sequel to the Solar...

Happy  ITPaSWU * Tuesday! Valentine’s Day is coming up and we’ve got gifts for you. Lots of them. The first is a great story on just how much precise data your phone shares about you with whoever cares to pay. We then move on to a collection of your data that’s so big, they just may know more about you than you know about yourself! From there it's furballs and kitties with a new ethnical...

Happy Identity Theft Awareness Week! In celebration, we move from stories about a 7 year old to a 30 something, the first an agent, and the last a real operator… to a mischievous creature that is causing some real worry in the security community. We get the lowdown on the face off between Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook and more crazy stats on social engineering with tips on how to avoid trouble. Thi...

We start with a guy who’s got reporters, lawsuits and a Stock Market darling chasing him, and he didn’t even know it until a reporter from the New York Post told him! We show you the price you pay for something free. Then we move on to more breeches than Levi Strauss… and a sombre message about trust on the Internet. We finish with a shocking story about our kids getting hacked. Think it’s implaus...

Tom Jones sings the Burt Bacharach classic, as a tip off to our first story as we move from sunspot, Sunburst, Teardrop onto "Raindrop". From there we go X-rated before hurtling into the Good and the Ugly. Finally we end in outer space were one institute is even starting to realize that Cybersecurity has its place in space too! This is the best Privacy and Security update yet, so put on your rain...

This week we start our stories to the background tune of Prince with a story that just keeps getting bigger. We move onto politics and the permanency of the Internet and a do at home project, you too, can perform if you have the time, the dosh, a few tools, and a supercomputer sitting around. We have a cautionary tale about a leak and all the data about you,  yes you , that was exposed (and t...

Following on from last year’s collection of the Best IT Privacy and Security stories yet, we up your ROI (return on investment) in this section with what these stories mean to you. There’s no better way to drive a story home than with a message of “what’s in it for me?” and that’s what we deliver. We start our journey across the world with a criminal complaint and we end at the doctor’s office, in...

Welcome to this week’s edition of the IT Privacy and Security weekly update. According to research done by MIT the number 17 is the most common randomly chosen number between 1 and 20. 17 is the seventh prime number. A prime number is a number that can only be divided by both itself and the number 1. The number 17 is more than just a prime number though – If you add the first four prime numbers to...

Phonetically speaking, we have the tastiest holiday serving of praɪvəsi ænd sɪˈkjʊrəti on anyone’s holiday menu! Our entre is confirmation of a hack first reported here months ago, before moving onto the first course of NSO stew, a main of student test taking with a side of Facebook. For dessert we move outside and with the wind in our hair we end with a story about brushing. Yes, it’s all here an...

This week reads like a  https://www.007.com/  movie (we like the " How To Drive Like James Bond… That is, if you have £3M to spare" section): from across the world, nation state spies are revealed, huge hacking exploits that provided access into 80% of the US Fortune 500 come to light, insecure kit at the doctor’s office and schools hacking students phones with hardware that was and prob...

Happy Tuesday!   In our process of constant evolution we have a slightly new format for you this week.   After an exciting IoT Bill we are going to focus on secure communications.  We look deep into the heart of password use and creation, to help you create your best one yet and then we take to the high seas for a recent discovery that had some major implications for human-kind.&nbs...

Howdy! On “giving Tuesday” we are “giving” you the best privacy and security stories yet. AI and privacy feature high on the list, from AI aimed at truck drivers to office 365 workers and sticking with the theme comes our AI generated title this week for the Privacy and Security update. Using the  semrush(dot)com/title-generator/ and the two most coherent results for your delectation: “The Be...

They used to say, “If you want to get someone’s attention, just whisper.” In these trying times where social distancing keeps people more than 6 feet away, that strategy falls flat, so instead we come bearing news of gifts. We start with free e2ee calls for up to 29 hours 59 minutes and 59 seconds, we move on to leaky apps, why your new car might have gone missing while you shopped for Raspberries...

Welcome back P&S listeners ... we start with trip down memory lane. ..... How many of you recall the days of L0phtcrack as possibly one of the first tools you used to demonstrate the concept of brute force attacks? (Ok maybe this says something about us.) Well, Twitter has just taken on its creator. This week is absolutely the best collection of articles yet, … as we veer from Pentagon commiss...

After what some may have found a nerve wracking week across the globe awaiting the results of the US elections (absolutely validating the value of immutable transactions) the dust is settling a little bit. While US authorities pat themselves on the back, we look into just how precarious some of the security surrounding voting was, from hacking voter data websites to breaking into ballot boxes, you...

We have the best mix of stories yet, from across the world… to outer space. We start with why you might do better smashing your old thumb drives, then patching, a really laughably acronym, guarding against malicious Google forms, how long were you on that phone?, why naming bugs is such a bitch, and a first review of Elon Musk’s SpaceX StarLink. You will love every single word and you’ll be better...

...this Security Matters update is the best EVER. As we span the globe for stories we start off in Sweden and end up in Kazakhstan. In between those two countries you can learn how to redact depositions, send high speed uploads to drones while in Munich, view some extraordinarily bad passwords a la the current US president, read a truly inspirational story about one of the team leads at Project Ze...

We have the most entertaining round up of privacy and security stories making this the best week yet! From a rapper scamming the system to an alarming number of stories covering the security and privacy of our children, hackers giving back to charity, to a final word from POTUS that has roughly half of the population up in arms. In between we share US election communications that you will want to...

This week we start with an Orca reporting on a bunch of appliances and we end with a story about birds. In between the two extremes we have cars, drive-bys, cruises, trickbots, bricked phones and backdoors. Truly colorful content. We help you stay safe with tips on everything from shopping to conferencing and while the tone is light, the results are serious. Have a great listen!

Hey everyone! Welcome to the Privacy and Security related news for the week ending October 6th 2020 From the Wild and crazy guy John McAfee (We’ve met him. We can attest to the “crazy” parts) all the way to Mars, we have you covered with the latest and truly the greatest news. We know you are going to love this week’s privacy and security news story round up and perhaps even forgive us for the las...

Hey everyone!  Welcome to the Privacy and Security related news for the week ending September 29 2020  We’ve certainly got a roundup of WILD stories for you this week, from the FBI playing Roxy Music’s Manifesto, to Stravas paid for contribution of your data to the development of city centers it’s all here. Fed up with your Android location based unlock? We can help you fix it for a whil...

This week we start underground in a Tesla and end with a boat crash, but what you find in between those two modes of transport is crazy interesting. We have a cautionary tale involving an Australian Prime minister, Fuzzing as a Service, a leaky elastic Microsoft Bing search server, a snowflake, a credit card, and Russia putting the clamp on secure protocols. There’s no better way to get your Priva...

A roundup of global privacy and security news for the week ending 2020 09 15