The Bid Picture with Bidemi Ologunde

In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde presents the FBI's recent report of a dramatic surge in fraudulent unemployment insurance claims that are being filed using stolen identities - a follow-up to the scam calls discussed in Episode 15, where scammers were spoofing the phone numbers of FBI field offices in West Texas. In the second segment that contains a trigger warning, an Italian IT expert...

In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde presents a case where conspiracy theories motivated an IT consultant to commit multiple cyber crimes in multiple states. Please send questions, comments, and suggestions to bidemi@thebidpicture.com . You can also get in touch on LinkedIn , Twitter , the Clubhouse app (@bid), and the Wisdom app (@bidemi).

In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde presents a case where scammers successfully spoofed the official phone numbers of the FBI field offices in El Paso and Midland, Texas. Please send questions, comments, and suggestions to bidemi@thebidpicture.com . You can also get in touch on LinkedIn , Twitter , the Clubhouse app (@bid), and the Wisdom app (@bidemi).

In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde presents an analysis of the recent spike in the sale of COVID vaccines, negative COVID test results and COVID vaccine certificates on the dark web as well as an analysis of the rise in the use of COVID vaccine passports. Please send questions, comments, and suggestions to bidemi@thebidpicture.com . You can also get in touch on LinkedIn , Twitter , the Clubhous...

In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde presents the case of an IT consultant who hacked and deleted over 1,200 Microsoft Office 365 enterprise user accounts for his former employer's clients (accounts that he helped set up) due to negative performance reviews that the client sent to his former employers. The revenge hack was done in August 2018 from India, but he was arrested by the FBI in Jan...

In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde attempts to provide some context to the ongoing anti-Asian racism, harassment and violence by recalling a cyber bullying incident from March 2020, plus a historical examination of anti-Asian racism in the U.S. Please send questions, comments, and suggestions to bidemi@thebidpicture.com . You can also get in touch on LinkedIn , Twitter , the Clubhouse app (@bid...

In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde presents an incident where two young men are awaiting sentencing for breaking into female students' university email accounts and then gaining further access into their social media accounts to steal their nude pictures and trade them with their co-conspirators. Please send questions, comments, and suggestions to bidemi@thebidpicture.com . You can also ge...

In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde presents a recent incident where a series of social media posts potentially led to a targeted cyberattack on a local government contractor in Raleigh, North Carolina. Please send questions, comments, and suggestions to bidemi@thebidpicture.com . You can also get in touch on LinkedIn , Twitter , the Clubhouse app (@bid), and the Wisdom app (@bidemi).

In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde presents a December 2020 incident where a college professor and her two teenage daughters were pranked with Uber and Lyft ride requests and a ridiculous pizza order (they don't even eat pizza). Please send questions, comments, and suggestions to bidemi@thebidpicture.com . You can also get in touch on LinkedIn , Twitter , the Clubhouse app (@bid), and the...

In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde presents two recent incidents where both intentional and unintentional behaviors exposed users to cyberattacks. Please send questions, comments, and suggestions to bidemi@thebidpicture.com . You can also get in touch on LinkedIn , Twitter , the Clubhouse app (@bid), and the Wisdom app (@bidemi).

In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde presents an instance of an exceptional use of cyber threat intelligence by a cyber threat actor who targeted a teacher in the fifth largest school district in the United States with help from an unsuspecting parent who regularly overshares on social media. Please send questions, comments, and suggestions to bidemi@thebidpicture.com . You can also get in touch...

In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde takes a look at how to stay cyber secure while Zoom-schooling, 7 cyber security career-killers and how to avoid them, and how social engineering increases when people overshare personal details online. Please send questions, comments, and suggestions to bidemi@thebidpicture.com . You can also get in touch on LinkedIn , Twitter , the Clubhouse app (@bid), and t...

In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde does a deep dive into the scourge of revenge porn and how it has become more rampant during this pandemic. The second segment in the episode puts a spotlight on why right now is the best time to request and negotiate a better compensation agreement at work and what to avoid during this complex and sensitive process. Please send questions, comments, and suggest...

In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde explains effective personal data privacy practices from a pandemic perspective: how users can secure their online data by analyzing the devices they use and how their online searches, email and messaging platforms could affect their privacy. The second segment in the episode puts a spotlight on digital addiction, its causes and effects with respect to the ongo...

In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde presents two email-based cyber attacks that highlight (1) the sophisticated nature of a year-long spear-phishing attack on a well-known Indian journalist and (2) how innate human curiosity can leave anyone vulnerable and prone to being hacked despite the presence of clear warning signs. Another segment contains an analysis of how a data broker is selling locat...

In this short mid-week episode, host Bidemi Ologunde does a deep dive on Fitbit, its data collection and usage policies and the privacy impacts of its imminent billion-dollar acquisition by Google. The episode also provides insights into how we can be aware and in control of the different ways our personal health information is being collected, aggregated, used and shared, usually without our perm...

In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde does a deep dive on the new WhatsApp data sharing policy with Facebook and how users are reacting to it; the impact of outgoing President Trump's ban on 10 Chinese apps; discussions about a location flaw in the Telegram app; the risks associated with "fleeceware" apps; T-Mobile's fourth data breach in 3 years; a potentially life-changing te...