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The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update.

R. Prescott Stearns Jr.

Into year five 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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00:24:40

Getting Hatty in the IT Privacy and Security Weekly...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2022/08/10

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

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00:28:11

Camouflaged as the IT Privacy and Security Weekly...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2022/08/03

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

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00:22:56

Dumping the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for...

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2022/07/26

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

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00:26:59

We Will We Will Track you. The IT Privacy and...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2022/07/19

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

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00:26:51

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update from the...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2022/07/13

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

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00:26:23

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update served with...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2022/07/06

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

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00:25:29

Overheating in the Hot Tub with the IT Privacy and...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2022/06/29

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

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00:28:02

The Foxy IT Privacy and Security Weekly update for...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2022/06/22

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,

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00:24:24

Paparazzi to Cookie jars in the IT Privacy and...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2022/06/15

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! For the full

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00:29:31

Viva the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for...

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2022/06/08

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

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00:23:02

We Are, We Are, The IT Privacy and Security Weekly...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2022/06/01

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

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00:30:23

Shoulda put 2FA on the IT Privacy and Security Weekly...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2022/05/25

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

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00:18:53

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly “Fakes” Update for...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2022/05/18

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

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00:21:04

Chillin’ with the IT Privacy and Security Weekly...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2022/05/10

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

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00:23:52

Serving up the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2022/05/04

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

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00:21:55

Twisting the IT Privacy and Security Weekly update...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2022/04/27

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

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00:27:48

This is House Arrest with the IT Privacy and Security...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2022/04/20

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

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00:21:32

Trafficking the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2022/04/13

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

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00:25:27

Buzzing with the IT privacy and Security Weekly...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2022/04/06

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

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00:25:34

Smiling with the IT Privacy and Security Weekly...

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update. ·

2022/03/30

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

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