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 opinion.
With elections coming up in the US would you be upset to discover that the code in your voting machine was written and updated by a Russian?  You could not make this stuff up.
The Washington Post tells us why it thinks that Pavel Durov should stay in jail  and some security researchers share how you might bypass TSA security the next time you are at an airport.
Finally we will soon have fifteen thousand reasons for considering not subscribing to one provider's broadband.
The dream police, they live inside of our heads.  Let's check out this week's arresting update. 

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Cash Cows and the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the week ending August 27th 2024

8/27/2024

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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 to clean house from the Dept. of Justice Inspector General.
Uber gets spanked in the Netherlands for sending private data across the world
And finally the Russian Army looks dazed and confused as their main form of communication gets locked away.

We may be in the dog days of Summer, but all we’re seeing are cows!

Find the full transcript for this podcast here.

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 Health Service in the UK while in the US a different healthcare provider deflates us with the data breach of a shocking percentage of the US population.
From there we spin up to Sweden for some extra miles / kilometers to get the inside lane on the type of event that ensnared poor Ellen Bagley.
Then, back across the Atlantic, someone bans Russia’s premier antivirus. But wait! Wouldn’t a Russian antivirus be the best “bloc” for Russian hackers?
Finally Pavel Durov puts a spanner in his spokes by saying the wrong thing to Tucker Carlson earning him a “Lanterne rouge”.
If you love adventure, this could the best tour yet, so strap on that helmet, slip on your gloves and let’s catch the Peloton!

Find the full transcript to this podcast here.

From the Depths of the Dark Web to the summit of Mount Everest, we have you covered.

In this update, we have a creative idea for what to do with the rellies for the holidays, where the commute may be long but the privacy superb.

We have a sensational story of TikTok actually telling the truth and another of Irish authorities objecting to Instagram/Meta business accounts for 13-year-olds.

We have a pretty firm reason not to stay at a particular hotelier and why you should be a little suspicious of all the beautiful people who just adore Russian soldiers.

We have our first NFT story out of Afghanistan, and our second out of your TV set.

This week’s update moves faster than USB4, so let’s plug in and go!

For a full transcript of this week's podcast please head to discuss.daml.com

From outer space to inner space and a few rotations in between, we spin you right round.

Space may be “Where No Man Has Gone Before”, but one woman has and will again.

We discover why you are less likely to be locked in a compartment and blasted with targeted ads during your next train ride to Delhi and what Google will track while you are on the tracks.

We learn about all the cameras you can buy access to in China, and then we see the full database of photos in the second largest data exposure in China.

We have the FTC getting tough on data brokers and a Judge getting tough on Elon and the punch-weary Twitter.

We suggest a new way to send untracked e-mail and learn the EU’s complaining that Google is swapping out other junk mail for their own.

And finally, we get a story about upcoming phones that will be better, faster, and never lose a connection, like the one you left in the back of the taxi.

We’ll spin you right round… like a record.

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This week we start with a tweet and end with a rap.

In between those bookends, we have a sick kid, now healthy, a father who may never recover, a great site to see what the apps on your phone might be up to, and a new champion in the fight for our attention.

We have the latest in “secure” smartphones that could end up sounding exactly the opposite by the time you get to the end of our coverage, and a pending court case alleging that Oracle has leapfrogged Facebook in the race to collect everything on everyone, everywhere.

We’ve got another car story that sounds so dumb, it’s got to be smart, and a new way to get around the Vegas strip.

Just about the only thing missing is something credit card-sized you can tuck into your wallet or bag so that they never end up lost…… Wait, yes we have that too.

Well then, it certainly looks like we have it all. Let’s have at it!

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This week is at least our 100th show and to celebrate, we start in the underwear drawer and end up on the floor in one of the cutest stories about the effects of honey that we have ever seen.

We learn about a new hack that reveals the deep secrets of Dishy McFlatFace, and why Zoom took you out for your first meeting with your boss yesterday.

There’s an announcement about Amazon’s new comedy show made from Ring doorbell clips, yet nothing about what happened to all the compromising recordings Alexa made of you over the last few years.

We have bans on video players, chips, and even a whole smart city.

Finally, we get to the root of rooting the combine-harvester you’ve had sitting out in the barn for the last two seasons because you could not drive it to the service center.

No stone is left unturned, no seed left unplanted, no crop left un-rotated and no mind left unfertilized, with this week’s harvest of stories.

So grab your pitchfork and follow us!

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From outer space to time travel: this week it’s “All systems go!”

We find ourselves in the cow flower and then get “compromised by” Twitter, Slack, and Twilio.

We find the legal detail in the class action lawsuit behind the company which must have one of the worst ads on US television right now.

We discover a couple of new players in the phone security arena and perhaps come away with some ideas for holiday gifts (they say you can’t start too soon).

This week’s update is unquestionably the best one yet so grab that hat and let’s go!

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Get out the passport because you’ll need it for a range of stories that circle the globe.

We start with an icon and end with an algorithm, and in between, we’ve got one of the best updates yet.

From data sharing between governments to Meta/Facebooks’ latest debacle, you could find our story on camo might be the only thing left to hide behind.

There’s a shocking story for new parents in the US state of New Jersey, and yes, one more revelation about the NSO groups’ software that cuts very close to home for our European audience.

We even have a superb story that calls out one of the hidden benefits of liberally buying your teenager pizza… from a mother that might be contemplating just that for a very long time.

So take your glasses off, pull your hair back behind your left ear, look straight at the camera and relax your shoulders because this week’s update is pretty as a picture!

For a full transcript of this podcast go to discuss.daml.com

This week we share a pungent selection from the most excellent landfill of stories yet.

We start our noisome journey literally in the dump and end up staring at a set of salad tongs.

We have a familiar cast of characters representing slightly different fragrance lines: Zuck, Elon, Blake, and even the devil himself may be found to guff in this one.

There’s the effluvium at KMart, new detritus for Ohio, and why even Google is starting to sniff at the bitter waft of the TikTok algorithm.

We tell you what trumpery to expect when you next get phished and if you are one of the tens of thousands laid off in the latest round of tech cuts, what you might want to consider for your next less malodorous gig.

Yes, it may be less than aromatic, but this week’s update will leave you with a smile like a Welsh crypto-Millionaire!

Come on! Pull up the waders, put the clothes peg on your nose, grab a pair of rubber gloves and let’s get mucky.

Find the full transcript of this podcast at discuss.daml.com

This week we use all our senses as we move from our ears, with Mark Zuckerberg’s lilting voice and constant backing tracking, to talk of a frozen backside during one of the biggest heatwaves ever to hit the northern hemisphere.

We learn that our eyes may never see the million-page novel censored by an online document service, and smell a rat as a former CIA agent gets the opportunity to feel the solitude of a jail cell.

We get a taste of what the dept. of Homeland Security are up to, yet are comforted that a sister agency has kept at least one hospital healthy and well.

We touch on the best IT Privacy and Security stories this week and if they leave you hot and sweaty, it could be global warming, but more likely it’s the content!

Faces forward, deep inhale, let’s go!

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We go drifting in the Honda this week with stories ranging from AI writing its own autobiography to why our Anom phone bill was so high.

In between we have lots of car stories: Some of them might have you in tears, so grab a tissue.

We accelerate from beans to Titans and then hit the brakes when we discover another instance of those collecting everything on everyone leaving it all out on the starting line.

We hit a hairpin turn with an up-and-coming U.S. politician who’s proposing to create jobs by wrecking car things.

Then we have a police data raid in India that could put some of us in the pits.

This podcast may not be a Ferrari, but we’ve still got some very good lines.

Buckle up. Let’s drift.

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This update moves IT Privacy and Security from your next meal to a trip around the salad bar at least a couple of times.

We work our way from an unlikely garden and a Raspberry Robin out to the OpenSea. We discover many, unappetizing ways for our data to be lost, stolen, or sold.

Then… sprinkling a little bit of insight into how police use our search data and what is being proposed in the garden state of California that would wipe out any sort of browsing anonymity … completely.

You get some reassurance in your “sage” thoughts about that co-worker you’ve never actually seen or heard from and finally, you see how many people have blossomed since we put this piece together.

There’s plenty of calm in this week’s update, but there is lots of tossing around too.

For a full transcript of this week's podcast head to discuss.daml.com

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 in a story we found so incredible it moved us to poetry.
And then we “hear” a privacy policy has been slimmed down and that made people upset. We’ll tell you why.
Got the “ump” during your morning commute? We share why that might might affect your purchasing preferences when you get to the office.
And we finish with the ultimate in data privacy and luxury accommodation for your bits and bytes.
​We have a great adventure this week so .... Let's go!

For this update, we start with a bit of binge drinking and end up in hot water.

We jet from the NSA’s advice for Windows admins to T-Mobile’s new scheme to sell your data to advertisers.

We hit the impeller fizzling and bubbling once we discover the extent of different kinds of data China is collecting on its own population.

We get a soaking from a new piece of spyware turning up on phones that for once did not come from our friends at the NSO group.

And we ready the leak-sealant after learning about those “innocuous” little applications that too many parents “must’ put on their phones to get updates on their pre-schoolers.

This week’s whirlpool of an update is all good clean fun, so leave your water shoes by the door, and let’s jump in. This one is hot!

Find the full transcript for this week's podcast at Discuss.Daml.com

This week we chase up stories from around the globe from inner to outer space. We surmise that if some countries’ plans to harvest solar energy are successful it might just induce your rellies to forget about you.

We let you in on a little million-dollar lost wager and a new student movement to get you to log off.

We finish with a sad story about a little fox, that’s getting smaller by the day and our valiant call to re-install.

OK, gang, once those downloads are complete, log off, resist the tweet, and we’ll hit the street for our weekly ITP&SWU treat!

For a full transcript of this podcast go to discuss.daml.com

This week we go from Paparazzi to Cookie jars, with an ear to our phones, an eye on those supercomputers and plugs and bugs in our PCs.

We have cool new functionality in Chrome and Firefox and (finally) a retirement party for IE.

We learn how the FBI is helping millions of Americans avoid an identity crisis, we get an unexpected “Les Mis.” book review and a “no bets” policy for an upcoming trial.

This week’s mashup is “mad as a box of frogs” so let’s rip the lid off and have some fun!

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This week is all about food, travel, and adventure, where we start abandoned at the altar and end with bizarrely overweight baggage.

In between those carefully seasoned toasted sesame seed buns of IT Privacy and Security are a flame-broiled update that shared too much, got shut down, and hacked, a tangy slice of database encryption, a leafy new mobile phone OS, and a large dollop of savory lawsuit.

It’s a meal made in heaven, worthy of a Michelin 3-star rating served hot and fresh off the grill.

So grab your bags, tuck that serviette under your chin and mind your manners as we experience the best IT Privacy and Security Update yet!

For a full transcript of this podcast go to Discuss.Daml.com

With a backing track that is probably the worst cover version we have ever heard, we learn what just flew past that  bedroom window.

In the US this week the focus has been on our children. Any way you look at it, from school shootings to privacy violations, to destroying the ecological balance of the world we are leaving them to live in, the only way you can describe societies’ actions is broad-scale child abuse.

We learn what political leaders already know, “if you don’t like the news, just turn off the Internet.” We have an update for Elon from Twitter, a warning from the Indian government that came 13 years late, and a petition to stop apps from accepting the Digital Yuan… for reasons that would surprise you.

We typically start the weekly update with a rush of excitement. This week let’s stop for a moment and think of the kids.

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This week we learn why modern romantics sing: “If you like it, then you shoulda put 2FA on it”

Yeah, and we go from Bridal veils to white hats and mistaken nails. From Crypto to klepto to dummo and UFO.

We even end with an exploding duck.

What other blog/podcast gives you that kind of range in a wonderful mix of IT Privacy and Security Updates?

None. Zip. Nada.

So whether you put on a tux, a bridal gown, or nothing at all, at least slip into some comfortable shoes, ‘cause we’re on a run through some amazing stories!

For a full transcript of the ipodcast go to discuss.daml.com

This week in our smash and grab we go from phones to fake followers and end up with a blog writer in tears.

We gain a little insight into just how relaxed some US Government officials are with the data of private citizens.

Then we wave, we get grabbed, we patch, and we secure.

Why… heavens to Betsey! This sounds like the makings of the best IT Privacy and Security Weekly update yet!

Let’s pull up our socks, lace our running shoes, and see what we can unravel before we try and find that elusive back a door!

For a full transcript of this week's podcast go to Discuss.Daml.com

From the blustery cold volcanic slopes of Iceland to the Freeze you put on Equifax, this week’s update may drop local temps. by several degrees.

We apply the heat by moving through downed satellite relays, Vodka DDoS attacks, and the weaponization of Windows event logs.

From there we discover the newest US surveillance agency and the latest arms race. Finally, there is the gravitational pull toward the privacy of outer space, and even that is coming into sharper focus.

Throw on that jacket, grab a scarf, and let’s prep for a sudden chill with the latest (and greatest) IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update adventure!

Find the full transcript for this week's podcast at Discuss.Daml.com

This week we start with flying bananas(?), before traveling through Spain, China, Russia, Nigeria, and Austria to get a visual carbohydrate count.

We consider the secure tweet, break and break into more phones, set new attack records, and nick a few scientists.

We find China hacking Europe, the US and UK hacking Russia, Russia hacking Ukraine, and someone hacking Spain.

…then we end with a quote of the week that only a mother could love.

This is the BITPASWU (Best Information Technology Privacy and Security Weekly Update) yet, so grab your friends and let’s FAF (Focus, Act, and Follow-Through)!

Find the full transcript for this podcast (with all mentioned links) at Discuss.daml.com

You may gain a couple of kilos in this week’s IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update, but we promise it’s got some of the tastiest content yet!

We start with what may become the latest rage in M.I.T. degrees and finish with a whisper.

In between we find a good reason to organize cold storage, we lose our monkeys, and then as we search for sponges, discover a 2000-year-old computer.

Then we see the ripples of a schoolchildren’s data breach grow into waves,  learn the cost of Zoom Bombing, and get a surprise when we find out who is writing the most code for the new Linux kernel.

This is the most calorific update yet, so let’s start in the creamy center and work our way to the edges!

For a full transcript of this podcast go to Discuss.Daml.com

Filling the hole in your Memory with the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the Week Ending June 11th., 2024

6/11/2024

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- 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 that could be even more dangerous if not tightly overseen.
After that we get some good news on filling the hole in your memory. This one will now ship as opt-in while we wait to get all the details on a product from a new contender who is chasing that same hole in your memory while forgetting your location history. It might be time to run down to your local library for some hippocampus exercises.
We test a new (mostly) anonymous quackbot to use as an interface into our AI models and actually get some decent results.
And finally we end up with a Minnesota winter weekend break idea that could land you in more hot water than your neighbors’ outdoor Jacuzzi.
Keep your hats on and your memories full as you join us on this week’s adventure.  Let’s go!

Find the full transcript to this podcast here.

We start with another case of house arrest and end up where? Having our DNA broadcast to Martians (and we don’t mean those who have saved a hundred grand to fly with Elon).

In between, we have our moods checked by AI, we, along with 2999 others, end up with tummy aches, we take apart a high-end piece of Russian drone technology and we get a court decision on data scraping that could have repercussions across the world.

This is house arrest, in the best IT Privacy and Security update yet, come but wear your Sunday best!

For a full transcript of this podcast head to discuss.daml.com

This week we start in traffic and end in traffic. Most is ground-bound but we have been known to flit into low Earth Orbit when our speeds are high enough.

From between those bollards, we discover more nighttime glitter, more acronym definitions, and the need for higher quant resistance in our crypto.

Still hungry? Our Pi and REDSPICE stories will give you something to chew on, while new Crypto tracking sites have turned moving stolen crypto into a real meal.

For now, put your sandwich aside, adjust your seat, check the mirror, buckle up, and let’s put the pedal to the metal!

For the full transcript of this podcast with all mentioned links please go to Discuss.Daml.com

This week we fly from an apiary to a cuddly puppy.

But all is not as it seems: We triple peak before a bout of melancholy and find an unwelcome foe back after a “short break”.

We have lawsuits, legal requests, and cameras all divulging way more than they should. We sequence the missing 8% and finally, we have a couple of lists that will turn you into such a security guru that you might be writing this update next week.

Then we end with possibly the best reason to own a cat.

You are going to love this week’s IT privacy and Security Weekly Update, it is simply the best one yet!

Grab your veil and gloves, pull up your socks, and let’s have an adventure!

Find the full transcript for this podcast at discuss.daml.com

Ooh… this week we start with rich creamy chocolate and end with a little smile.

In between those pleasurable bookends, we get an update on the Lapsus$ soap opera before the movie rights are sold to Hollywood.

We learn about printers being hacked to spread the news, and the astounding number and diversity of attacks on communications across Ukraine.

We get an update on a tech exodus and a new targeted ad campaign from the FBI.

Finally, there’s a new “adopt an FSB agent program” with glittering tips on how you can find your own.

This is the best IT Privacy and Security weekly update yet. Let’s roll! Swiss roll!

For a complete transcript of this podcast head to discuss.daml.com

oh... and the jokes...

What did the moderator say to kick off the IT speed dating session?
“Singles, sign on!”

What do you call a turtle that surfs the dark web?
A TOR-toise

What do you call an excavated pyramid
Unencrypted.

If girls are made of sugar, spice, and everything nice, and boys are made of slime, snails, and puppy-dog tails, what’s the cloud made from?
Linux servers, mostly.

What do you call a group of math and science geeks at a party?
Social engineers.

What’s the best way to catch a runaway robot?
Use a botnet.

Why did the programmer leave the camping trip early?
There were too many bugs.

What do you tell a hacker after a bad breakup?
There are plenty of phish in the sea!

Did you hear about the computer that kept rebooting?
It was terminal.

Why did the band never get a gig?
It was called 1023MB.

and finally…

One day, I started to whisper, so my wife asked me why I was whispering, I told her I didn’t want Mark Zuckerberg to hear us.

I laughed.

My wife laughed.

Alexa laughed.

Siri laughed....

This week we dance from Taylor Swift to Arkady Volozh or probably more correctly, from New York to Moscow.

We learn about over-reactions at NPM, Facebook, and Microsoft. We share some amazing visuals from NASA, that once you see, you can never unsee, and find the US government reminding each and every one of us that the Ukraine war is now at our door.

Finally, we learn about the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the US considering the incorporation of climate risk into financial risk.

This is an action-packed update, hotter than ever, so leave your coats behind, slip on some comfy shoes and let’s start our journey in the newest class on the syllabus….

For the full transcript of this podcast go to discuss.daml.com

This week we zoom from your face to space, dodging flying objects as we go.

We learn a bit more about Putin’s pre-war prep and its effect on Google and Apple. We discover a new website that helps us deliver a text to one of the millions of Russian citizens who may not have access to different perspectives on the Ukraine invasion.

We see an amazing data collection mapped to within 150 meters of where it happened, the issuance of new DNS certs and the quick sprint of the ruble into crypto.

We discover a new computer virus and get rid of an old computer anti-virus.

Then we get yet another lesson on why password hygiene is so important from one of the most unlikely sources yet.

This is definitely the best IT Privacy and Security Weekly update yet, so grab your butterfly nets and let’s see what we can clear out of low Earth orbit.

We start by tipping our hats in respect to all those valiantly fighting for democracy in Ukraine.

Then we go on an adventure. This one’s going to get our feet dirty. First with a new use for artificial intelligence, and then while we award Apple a “fail” on the very day it launches its latest raft of products.

We unearth why 9 women might be the right number for the US supreme court on International Women’s Day.

…And then get muddied with an update on the rather unique ransom demands being made of NVIDIA before dishing the dirt on the latest timings for cracking your password.

And at least for this adventure, we have a happy ending.

It’s all part of good discovery, so grab a shovel and let’s get digging!

Find the full transcript for this podcast at: discuss.daml.com

Before we start this week’s update it’s important to acknowledge what is going on in the world around us. There is a physical war involving the attack on Ukraine where the courage and the stamina of the people have engendered new levels of respect and awe, and there is a cyberwar.

Both at the direction of one individual.

Every single inhabitant on this planet will pay for his decision. Some will lose their homes, others their retirement savings, some will pay more for food and fuel, and some will pay the ultimate sacrifice.

Where ever you are in the world, if you can help, please do help.

In the best IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update yet we start by covering current events, before lifting the lid on your home router, going underground (literally), and then finishing high above the Earth.

Let’s start our journey.

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This week we discover 15 boxes, a number one app., and end up at the back end of the car.

With high compression pistons and rack and pinion steering stabilizing our high adhesion slicks, we roll through a billion faces, pound on Taiwanese bank doors, steal some NFTs, experience Man City in 3D, and come to understand why you should never use pixelation to hide behind when you track a Magpie.

Join us through the hairpin turns as we go flag to flag on a racing line through this week’s superspeedway of stories.

Let’s don that Nomex, check our earpiece accelerometers, flip down our visors, and hit the tarmac!

Find the full transcript of this podcast at discuss.daml.com

“What’s behind you doesn’t matter.” – Enzo Ferrari

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 update yet, and yes, we have all the freshest stories and tricks for you from this winter’s games.

Oh, and by the way, that’s Eileen Gu on the ivories. Her mum filmed her on the piano while they waited for a flight in the departure gate at the airport. You couldn’t make this up.

So, skis waxed, goggles on, boots fastened, poles back, ready, set, go!

For a full transcript of this podcast please go to discuss.daml.com

Episode 192 This week we go looking for help and discover something else entirely.
We start by being turned away from a London hospital because of something spread by a sick corporate partner.
Then we move onto background checks. Perhaps soon potential employers won’t need to run them, they’ll just look you up on the dark web.
From there Google springs a leak. Honestly, whoever is handling their PR must be having a meltdown over this latest faux pas because it’s a whole database of privacy incidents reported internally that provide a level of transparency no one at Google wants to see through.
Then let’s talk about the new Windows feature that will have you exploring the virtues of Linux even if it was the last thing you thought you would ever do.
They’ve been busy in Ottawa with a new industry proposal to build more back doors. We’ll find out why some are saying that is construction we simply don’t need.
And then there’s that password crack for a US$3 Million stash. How it was cracked and how you can prevent the same thing happening to your US$3 Million stash.
We end on Stack overflow with some help from a friend that’s anything but.
Good help is hard to find, but a great update is right in front of you.  Let’s go!

Find the full transcript for this podcast here.

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!

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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 even discover the new secret successor to the NSO Group.

Hold onto your hats, grab your phone, your raincoat, and let’s join the rest of the storm chasers as we track down this week’s highly unusual atmospheric activity.

For a full transcript of this podcast go to Discuss.Daml.com

...And just in case you do find yourself facing off against a hurricane, stay away from the windows, get as low as possible, move to an interior room, closet, or downstairs bathroom, and remember that we will be back in 7 to give you more instruction.

Until then stay safe, stay, secure… and try to remain calm…

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’, and might we add, the best IT privacy and Security Weekly Update yet!

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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 hit the highlands in the most “Barry” IT Privacy and Security adventure yet!!

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That’s it for this week. We will leave you with 7 days of quiet while we try to figure out how to tune a bagpipe.

Be kind, stay safe, stay secure, play with confidence. See you in se7en!

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 who talk ‘Blah Blah Blah’

Whether landlubber or salty dog, this vessel delivers the best IT Privacy and Security update yet!

So let’s put on those oilskins, slip on those waders, grab a rope, and hit the high seas!

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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?), punch into a fresh duck story, and triple front somersault into the differences between Misinformation, Dis-information, and Mal-information.

As we stop, drop, and roll, this just might be the best new year IT Privacy and Security weekly update yet!

So let’s load up those Parkour kit bags and J-step into our first adventure for 2022!

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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!

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With the holidays over.
And the parties behind,
It’s time for the diets,
And the mid-Winter grind.
From the treadmills and gym,
And the yoga at home,
Resolutions to reach out,
To those all alone.
Just make us a promise,
This one you can own,
Call us on anything
but your kid’s Fisher-Price phone!

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 paychecks.

We have a great gift not to buy and then we finish off strong…. with a song!

This week’s IT Privacy and Security weekly update is the best one yet and a gift to us all!

Have the caribou bid adieu,

get the sleigh in gear too, 

put on your stocking cap, red velvet suit,

and let’s take off, as the billionaires do!

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oh, and one more....

To those who have had their holidays, we hope they were joyful,
To those yet to celebrate, great feasts and days restful,
And to those young and small, big and tall, or anything at all, may 2022 be… your best year of all.

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 Tor blocking and that secret bottle message you threw out to sea.

For the holidays we also have a couple of ideas that might help with stocking stuffers.

So, wrap the gift and tie that bow! To the very best in IT Privacy and Security we go!

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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 connections where you enter a username and password and if it’s worth keeping safe, it’s worth turning on 2FA (two-factor authentication).

For this week’s journey, we start with a SIM card, end with an Onion and circle the globe in-between.

We learn about naughty telecoms carriers, a frozen health department, and Microsoft taking down some bad actors acting badly.

We discover why secret agents in the cinema use Nokia phones, why Elon is the only one flying for NASA, and some interesting new features being rushed to Instagram the day before the Senate hearings.

This is without a shadow of a doubt the best IT Privacy and Security Weekly update yet, so grab your boots and your overcoat, and let’s get to swashbuckling “same as we ever did”!

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Episode 191 This week we detonate a mix of updates starting south of the U.S. border, following a tremor into the roots of DNS and then colliding into the 5 precincts of New York City.
We have the incendiary tale of the Mexican cartels and how a hack spilled light on who is arming them.

Next, like our root DNS server, we explode with the 411 on just what another outage of that server could mean to all of us.
From there we reload with a tag story of how Apple presents location data and why you may not like what it’s saying about you.
In the UK we feel the scattershot of facial recognition software entering into our lives. If our face becomes a bar-code, what happens if we are mislabeled?
Then we learn how efficient AI makes a hacking team when a project, scheduled to take three weeks penetrates a major tech firm in just hours.
And we round out with the outburst of something whizzing over your head. This time it is a triumph of good over evil, but we wonder if that story will change over time.
Let's jump into the burst of stories. For this update we’ll be safe, even in the line of fire.

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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 patterns, just smartly pressed tracksuits, a toned demeanor, and that cloak of anonymity.

Come on let’s roll!

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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 team.

We’re so glad that Costco sells moon boots ‘cause we can gear up at the cash-only checkout and keep this adventure rolling until we hit an asteroid! Come on y’all, let’s take off!

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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 wonder if you can help us find Intel another boxing coach.

We end with mice, scorpions, and robots in a trilogy that could have the animal rights league chasing our tails.

All that aside, this really is the most superb IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update yet, so let’s get “Thunderstruck” with George, Jane, daughter Judy, and their boy Elroy!

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