The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update.

This week we start in the air and end in the air, with not a care while we are there.

We get an update on “Baby Al Capone” who got done for hacking a phone, how your drone might give up your home, a …

James Bond, Mata Hari, and Papa John?

This week we look into what today’s liars and spies are up to; from fishing to card sharks, wiretaps to deauthers, stolen keys to firewall upgrades.

And in the f…

Wooly Mammoth or Ferrari? One’s sprung a leak and the other could feature in the next chapter of a spy novel.

It’s not Ke$ha, but Tik Tok following us around these days, as Amazon hits the front page…

This week we are practicing a security technique introduced to us years ago while working with Scotland Yard. “Air Gapping” You can’t get hacked if you are air gapped.

So while we are off gapping we …

This week we start out fine but falter somewhat when we hear how many healthcare facilities have been breached in the first six months of 2022.

Spirits lift with an Uber joke and the reassurance that…

From Tweets to Whistles we’re here to make some noise.

You get the latest from Washington DC on “what it has, where it lives or where it came from” and why the U.S. Navy can’t say anything more about…

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…

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 li…

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 b…

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 lear…

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 a…

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 …

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 famili…

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 …

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 hav…

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 OpenS…

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 i…

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 for…

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 (final…

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…