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EP 213  This week's update glistens with a sweet golden mix of stories that will raise your glucose levels higher than any other update. We kick off with a couple of Microsoft stories:  One sweet and smart and the other ...well, less so. From there an amazing discovery that getting you into American airports safely might not be the only chore the FAA has to get right. It's not quite tax preparatio...

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EP212 The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update  is about to boost your brainpower! ​ A new study from Finland reveals that the choices you make today can affect your brain for weeks. By adopting healthy routines—like staying up to date with key insights from this very update—you’re not just protecting your digital life but also enhancing your memory, attention, and cognitive function. ​Consistenc...

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EP211 W​ho's really doing the Hoovering? It’s not just your robot vacuum!  Imagine you're living in a world where your friendly robot vacuum is secretly taking photos of your home, apps are tricking you into fake investments, and hackers are messing with your water bill.  Sounds like the plot of a tech thriller, right?  Well, buckle up, because reality just might be stranger than fiction!  In this...

What better way to get to grips with IT Privacy and Security topics than with a discussion. In this episode, we break out the issues and topics covered in Tuesday's update.

EP210  For this update we kick off with 11 million devices and end with a way to track those that were supposed to be un-trackable. We start with the reoccurrence from a family of malware that once was eradicated, but now seems to have reappeared. We move from there to the US where the Federal Trade Commission has finally decided to weigh in on social media apps. and how they are making money. Fro...

This is the podcast about the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update Tearing it Down for the week ending September 24th. 2024 podcast. Enjoy it. More learning and more fun!

EP209  You can tear it up, or tear it down, and this week we get a bit of both as we circle the Earth with our update. We start with Snapchat seemingly opting you in to yet another AI use case.  Subscribers are suspicious, but we let you be the judge. From there we go to a story not so much about a hacker as an aggregator.  Wait how many email addresses have they collected? For our third update we...

Listen as our AI hosts discuss Tuesday's update in this special update podcast. https://rprescottstearns.weebly.com/news/the-it-privacy-and-security-weekly-update-with-a-side-of-post-quant-for-the-week-ending-september-17th-2024 Post-Quantum Cryptography Takes Center Stage: NIST finalizes three new encryption algorithms to counter future quantum threats, prompting Google and Microsoft to annou...

EP208 Last month NIST finalized their selection of three algos for post-quant Cryptography and already we have two major players announcing they will be updating their encryption algos. Larry Ellison infamous as the Oracle CEO, now CTO, tells us why he thinks we should be on our best behavior for AI. Oh, and that Citigroup dev job you were applying for.... you didn't get the job, but you did p...

This week start the kameshika signal with a mushroom walking into the room. We get a new use case from the "Po-lice" for that Tesla parked over "thar". Then it seems NSA have enjoyed this update and podcast so much it inspired them to create their own (Thanks team!). There's a new version of a particular spyware program that we're calling out. A spec. sheet from Bluetoo...

EP206 This week's update takes off from Las Vegas and lands somewhere in Low Earth Orbit. We have databases of faces and how both a police union and the Dutch Data Protection watchdog think they are a bad idea. If they have your face, how do you prove you are you?  That's the next challenge and a proposal from OpenAI and Harvard thinks it'll have you covered.  We might have a different...

Cash Cows and the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the week ending August 27th 2024 8/27/2024 0 Comments Episode 205The cash cow is in your house and you sit staring at it. How did it get in? We’ll give you the latest on cloned RFID cards that will let you into almost any door using them. Google gets shady with its collection practices and ends up back in court. The FBI receives an order...

Episode 204 Join us as we Zoom in to the biggest crowd we have ever seen. Fancy a cycle around the neighborhood with the kids on your hot new bicycle? Read our update first! There’s a new copilot that could make a huge difference to your open source project and a huge new fine for one European mobile phone company (in the US). Then, a story about a firm that could’ve had the best security in the w...

Episode 203 This week we let the vigilante out first and discover he has remedies for a number large enough to make Clint Eastwood stand up and take notice. Then we bump into a type of fencing you will be glad has just been disallowed by a US court. From there if you want to go invisible on the web the “do-it-yourself” route turn out to be cheaper and way more effective. “We were software snobs” s...

Episode 202. This week we start with a new use for your face and end with a cautionary tale about keeping a safe distance when looking for true love. Then we get up early in the morning and discover that in trying to keep you secure, Microsoft gave you a broken multi factor authenticator.  (thanks Microsoft). After that, it’s more love, but a love you will have to suppress if Ford’s patent takes o...

Episode 201 This week we have bookends for gearheads. A book for Ferrari and a booking for GMC. Our second story is so incredible that even we had to read it twice. Our question is: “Would you ever use an exchange run by people so stupid?” Your house just got robbed.  We have the detail your wifi Camera didn’t pick up. We’ve got some good news for you as you pass through US airports, and bad news...

Episode 200 The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update and the End of Personal Privacy in the US for the Week Ending July 23rd., 2024 7/23/2024 0 Comments  Episode 200 - Click the pic to hear the podcast - This week we start with the end. The end of personal privacy in the US.  Join us to discover how everyone from Larry Ellison to your letter carrier has compromised you. ​ We have the culprit name...

Episode 199    ​From the millions here on Earth to the second planet from the Sun we keep you up to date with all the latest and most important escapades in IT Privacy and Security. We start with the good news that although AT&T may not be selling your phone location data (if you opted out) they have still been sharing it.  We tell you what and when. CNN provides some investigative reporting t...

  Episode 198 This week we start with a road trip in Cali to the library... and something about that drive that everyone seems to be missing. Next we travel from the depths of the oceans back into low Earth orbit and why the EU datacenters in space research might just have something to plug into. Then we go overdue when we check the card catalogue for AI and discover poor security. There’s a new u...

Episode 196    Oops!! We start by reading your emails and finish with your significant other reading you the riot act. Over in Germany, TeamViewer gets a visit from a cozy bear… While in Santa Cruz a lightbulb’s worth of energy is running a chatbot. Google has growing datacenter flatulence and GE gets free and easy with the classified data it’s er… well.. emitting. We get some creepy insight into...

Episode 195 Check your tires and adjust your pedals because this update could get you back “on Yer bike” In our first story we learn how deep and wide the river of collected car information is, and in our last, exactly how that detail was delivered. You may be as surprised as we were to find out who is riding the prologue into this stream of information. We get a painful puncture from the National...

Episode 194   From your car to your new home... this week has something for everyone. We start with a data reseller that will become more and more a target if rising car insurance premiums are anything to aim at. We follow with two stories of exposed client data. The aftermath was handled differently in both cases and we think you should tell us which you’d prefer. From there its off to Singapore...

Filling the hole in your Memory with the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the Week Ending June 11th., 2024 6/11/2024 0 Comments - click the pic to hear the podcast -   Episode 193 For this update we start and finish with some spectacular areal shots of things we probably shouldn’t be seeing. We bump into a familiar issue with extensions. This one isn’t browser extensions, but something th...