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The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update.

R. Prescott Stearns Jr.

Into year six for this award-winning, light-hearted, lightweight IT privacy and security podcast that spans the globe in terms of issues covered, with topics that draw in everyone from executive to newbie, to tech specialist. Your investment of between 15 and 20 minutes a week will bring you up to speed on half a dozen current IT privacy and security stories from around the world to help you improve the management of your own privacy and security.

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00:23:59

Flashing Colours in the IT Privacy and Security...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/05/24

This week’s update starts with what some might see as a poke in the eye and could end with really poor enunciation. We have Google intro’ing 8 new domains and getting caught in a .zip. There’s a great story that might have you thinking that HP has moved into home construction when you hear about all the bricks it created over the past couple weeks. We have evidence that the FBI emerged from the locker room dirty and the low down on the kingpin of scammer calls in the UK. While that’s going on Meta’s

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00:22:16

Breathe deeply with the IT Privacy and Security...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/05/17

Up North here, it’s Springtime so we start with a deep breath of DNA and finish out of ink, we think! Between here and there we sneeze as we bump into a couple of projects, one that sniffs out unencrypted LTE communication and another that sniffed out the contents of the phone you lost or had taken as evidence by the police. We dab the tears of a former Bytedance executive as he makes allegations about the Chinese Communist Party “maintaining supreme access” to data, and Toyota who cleverly created

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00:21:50

Smart Start, Dumb ending with the IT Privacy and...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/05/10

This week we start smart and end dumb. Potentially somewhat contrary to our other updates. In between we might ultimately have a dumb way to protect a car, a dumb executive who got lucky, and a healthcare company that almost seems to be competing with T-Mobile for most breaches in 2023. There’s a dumb plan by the EU to scan all your messages, and a smart move from Open AI to give you back some privacy. We have the FBI going “gangsta” on DDoS as a service and a brilliant writeup of Russian malware

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00:28:46

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update Gets in...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/05/03

This week we get breached, we get in your head, we go all over the world and then we get a beat-down by the cat. The world of brain scanning coupled with AI is already yielding some very interesting results and we take you into the ganglia of the action. We learn a new stat for a nation-state face-off and frankly, the numbers look a little one-sided. We discover the EU setting “mew” regulations for nineteen of the major tech players, while Italy invites one company back in through the cat flap from

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00:21:42

Follow the flags with the IT Privacy and Security...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/04/26

This week starts with frustrated police in Sweden and finishes in the back pocket of a legal team. We move onto the troubling story of the US National guardsman who, now it transpires, leaked way more than all the toddlers at your child’s preschool, a beer story that is sure to have many of our readers in tears, and a drafty new naming scheme based on weather events. We get great updates from WhatsApp and Google authenticator and more AI news than you can shake an API at! Finally, we flag

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00:22:48

Down to Chinatown with the IT Privacy and Security...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/04/19

This update starts with the fortune cookie found in the back seat of what might just be the worlds top-selling car. Both have a surprise in store. From there, we have a touching story of how the NYPD is re-adopting a dog called “Spot”. We get an update on an ingenious bit of tomfoolery for Windows users with a new Chrome update and another reason why, if you need your transactions to be private, they shouldn’t be on a public blockchain. There is some disturbing news from a “reliable source” related

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00:21:55

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly “Roadtrip” for the...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/04/11

This update starts in the middle of Interstate 84 and ends with a possible answer as to what’s happening with the ghost orders for bottled water. We hit the road with some car updates; from what might soon be missing from our cars to wait… where is the car? Then we move on to phones, where the Federal Bureau of Investigation has a tip for you the next time you consider topping up at the airport, and Google reveals its plans to make your experience with applications a little bit cleaner going

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00:24:12

Shake it with the IT Privacy and Security Weekly...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/04/04

For this update we start off with our feet solidly on the ground, buried under U.S. tax returns, before shaking it and finishing in outer space. We learn when people discover that you are using NSO’s Pegasus spyware, you’ve got to go shopping for something even more secret. Elon Musk gives us an opportunity to work for him for free while Mandiant divines how North Korea is paying for its latest set of rockets. DarkTrace provides some sobering news about phishing that you should probably check out

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00:23:30

Sowing the seeds of the IT Privacy and Security...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/03/28

This week we kick off in Canada and finish in Norway. In between, we hear why the big push to ban TikTok from our phones may be less effective than we think. We get the inside scoop of a malaise that’s hitting Google, Meta, and Amazon… and through them you. There’s an update on the surveillance state that will keep you in the picture literally from your driveway to the 2024 Olympics in Paris. We get news on leaky Ai and how much confidential data is being pushed into some of the online chatbots, and

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00:24:20

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update Cut it Up...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/03/22

This week we start in the hacked offices of the US Government and end up being launched off a drone in Africa with a little parachute on our back. In one country we have a government turning off wireless services to catch a perpetrator while in another country wireless service providers are the perpetrators! We have a couple of TikTok updates and an official new bureau in China to mine data …for Economic Growth. There’s another spyware-laden, wiretapped individual with a government denying

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00:17:51

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update Gets Mooned...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/03/15

This week’s update zooms from the moon to your innermost thoughts. We get an update on a shrinking Meta and our shrinking IQs. From Washington DC we learn about probably the most perfect imperfect way to ensure that data protection laws are passed in the coming years. We discover a steganographic breakthrough and an electrifying enzymatic discovery that could revolutionize IT Privacy, Security and the World as we know it. Finally, we meet a new technology that could present the ultimate invasion of

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00:22:37

Chicken Soup and the IT Privacy and Security Weekly...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/03/08

This week we start on page 7 and finish in with the chickens. We get a little bit of activity from Zoom and a TL;DR for US President Biden’s new National Cybersecurity Strategy. We have a story on AirB&Bs new “banned by association” program and the German government finally pulling the plug on one company’s networking equipment. Then we have an update on the state of video surveillance and ended up surprising ourselves with what we found just outside our own office doors. We close the update

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00:18:30

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update goes Atomic...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/03/01

From Rosie the Robot to atomic restores… we’ve got you covered. This week we walk out of the UK with Signal and break into our bank with something that’s not even ours. We have good news for those on the witness protection program and a stupid update from LastPass. We discover that the EU and Canada are packing up to leave the TikTok party and we visit LinkedIn as an attack vector. We finish as all secure updates should, with an analogy that’s “da bomb”. Like most things in life, you’ve got to test

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00:25:19

Putting all your eggs in one basket with the IT...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/02/22

This week we start in the “fresh produce” section and end up in an empty parking space. For Valentine’s day, we heard that if you really wanted to show your love, you’d forget the dozen roses and hit the supermarket for a dozen eggs. This week we learn what the supermarket got out of that show of affection. The Washington Post clears away some “myths” while Microsoft’s Bing offers up a new take on the world around it that’s most probably got Google breathing a sigh of relief. We have a bold

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00:26:16

Be our Valentine: The IT Privacy and Security Weekly...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/02/15

For this special Valentine’s day edition, we have a couple of golden heartfelt stories at opposite ends of the gift-giving spectrum. We have an update on a final breakup that seems to have dragged on and on. There is some insight into how North Korea funds its cyber attacks, and seemingly everything else going on in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. We have a couple of stories on the gathering and distributing of your personal data that might make you see red… And finally, a red roses poem,

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00:26:04

Psyched about the IT Privacy and Security Weekly...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/02/08

Lie down and relax. This week you might need the couch as our readings take you from therapy notes to privacy policies. We have Microsoft burrowing into your computer to find out what version of its software you might be running, and Google serving up addresses you want to avoid. We get a curious question about the Kremlin’s knowledge of what is passing through a “secure messaging system” and a bit of research that might have you reconsider the cheap Chinese phone with the great camera you had your

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00:20:05

Boxed with the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/02/01

This is probably one of the most entertaining updates yet, so join us as we take you from the coolest ride to the hottest trend in outsmarting AI CCTV cameras. And then, apparently we have some bad news if you are Austrian, Italian, Dutch or Columbian. We go on to “reasons to be cheerful part 3” with a great LINUX distro that will take care of your updates for years! From the US Government another shameful shaming to after an investigation remoting into machines proves far too successful. We close

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00:27:40

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update don't give...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/01/25

This week we start with a chimp and end closer to doom. Between those two completely unrelated bookends, we get news from phone, security, and payments companies that they let a different animal out of the bag. There is some potentially good news with ransomware payments falling across the world and the Supreme court allowing the anonymous defense of section 230. We have updates from Google and Meta but then get booted out of the airport. This week’s update is faster-paced than an action movie … and

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00:29:47

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update gets...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/01/18

This week we start with phones and end up phishing... only to discover that neither are “F” words. We sweep from the Netherlands to Canada, China, the U.S., Iran, and Switzerland this week as we get the “up high” and “low down” on everything from Quantum computing to stupid passwords. We’ve got AI chatbots on the verge of harassment, and another breach involving a password manager. We get reminded again why it’s best not to try and reinvent the wheel and what Google thinks could potentially brick

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00:30:29

Just a whiff of the IT Privacy and Security Weekly...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2023/01/11

This week we exercise all your senses: from sound and vision to …smell. We have car stories worthy of serious rubbernecking with almost no brand of automobile left out. There’s the NYC school district where teachers have fallen behind the kids in educating themselves. We’re served an update on the quietest tech rollout the fast food industry has probably ever cooked up. And then we get a load of privacy stories that may have you wondering where the technology and privacy divergence will leave

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