The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update

Privacy & Security FAQ: Week Ending November 19th, 20241. What happened with T-Mobile and Chinese hackers? Chinese hackers, suspected of ties to Chinese intelligence, infiltrated T-Mobile as part of a larger cyberespionage operation. This attack targeted telecom companies to gather intelligence on high-value targets. While T-Mobile claims no significant impact on their systems or customer data...

EPISODE 217  If you drive a car you'll want to listen out for the sixth story in our update this week.  We tell you how you can even join in the fun! On the day after 45 people were sentenced to prison by the Chinese authorities for pro-democracy activities in Hong Kong we get confirmation that the Chinese have broken into T-Mobile. Google gives a gift that could stop phone fraud in its tracks, bu...

The team discusses the week's IT Privacy and Security Update and offers a different perspective. Enjoy!

Episode 216 In this week's update we move from alarming outfits to stormy data sharing. We start with retailers are eyeing thread-thin tech to tackle shoplifting and then move to Cyber-criminals stealing private data by pretending to be the police. Then that iPhone the police took off you when your paid for shirt set off the alarm... well suddenly rebooted.  Then Apple again dreams up a plan that...

For Episode two one five and a half our couple does a deep dive into this week's topics. Enjoy!

Episode 215  On U.S. election day, this is the update that will tear you away from the endless all night results shows. Schneider Electric gets hacked, and the cyber thief is demanding $125,000 in something peculiar – a data breach with a French twist! Scientists have discovered that plants “see” light by bending it through tiny air gaps – proving they don’t need eyes to point to something bright....

Episode 214.5 This deep-dive session takes a more conversational look into the topics covered in Tuesday's update. More to enjoy!

EP214  Hacks, Zachs, and Smacks from the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the week ending October 29th., 2024 10/29/2024 0 Comments EP214  ​This week's update whirls us around the living room for a collection of stories demonstrating that your privacy and security are nothing to be taken for granted. We start with a report with more troubling news about another robot vacuum cleaner gone r...

for EP 213.5 take a deep dive into the Honeypots of this week's update!

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...

Episode 212.5 Hear our buddies review the content from this podcast.

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...

Episode 211.5 for a different twist on this week's update have a listen to this review.

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...