The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update.

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 inc…

Episode 190. This week we start with a tale that will bring happiness to every University Students’ mother.

We follow with another that has one woman fuming while everyone involved claims it was a c…

Episode 189.  Ever feel like you are being followed? This week we have both Apple and Google making efforts to quell that effect.  
We have leak updates from two sources that should be among the last …

Episode 188

This week we blast off with a couple of stories that would make movies like Top Gun and Armageddon appear tame in comparison. This just might be where reality surpasses fiction.
From there…

Episode 187
Flames leap from the IT Privacy and Security news this week... from trick TVs to leaky telephones.
We flare up with a story about US Senator Ron Wyden chasing a Google TV “quirk” that could…

Episode 186 Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane! It’s... your insurance company!?!?

This week we have stats and stories that will leave you gasping, and that’s good because you’ll have a c…

Episode 185  This week’s update starts out leaking like an old bucket, but gets patched up pretty good.

We start with our friends at AT&T and yet more mobile phone subscriber detail launched out ont…

Episode 184. It’s the last last episode this month, and if “March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb” then we have the wild in these updates running backwards.

We start with an absolutely …

Episode 183 
In our sweetest update yet, we go from “Jam” to chocolate as we cover all subtle flavors and nuances of IT Privacy and Security.
Then for our second story we have an EU member in trouble w…

Episode 182
This week we take you from credential stuffing to whistle-blowing by way of a bolted horse.
We start with the compromise of your beloved Roku account and no more vivid a lesson on the value…

For this episode we go searching for the needle in the haystack and it appears that someone or something in our fourth story found it!
But we end Q1 with what we end every Q1 with in the US. Taxes. An…

Episode 180. The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update Loses the Car for the week ending February 27th., 2024

This week one vendor announced we’d be getting post-Quant encryption for our messages, wh…

 This week’s update is our most exciting yet:

• You get driving lessons that help you fix security.
  
• A new class of black hat AI that can hack websites on its own.
  
• A suggestion that you keep your t…

It’s that time of year again when love is in the air and this week’s update will be as embracing as a hug from Taylor Swift after a big Super bowl win.
We start with a great misstep story about a hypo…

This week we start with your dear Gran.  When’s the last time you called her to see how she was doing?
​After our first update we hope that call will happen within the next day or two.

 From there we …

Episode 176
This week the update gets dialed in:  First via a new spy tool called Patternz then via a photo contest where we share who rates what in the race at the top.
From there we have an update on…

Episode 175
As you were walking home from work did you ever feel like someone was watching you?  In this weeks’ update we tell you why.
We have some disturbing news on a cyber attack where the data fro…

Episode 174 This week we are pumping, probing, questioning and querying on all fronts. We start with a couple of fan faves from the Consumer Electronics show, but wonder if we’ll get as much use out …

Episode 173

This week we need some space, man.

We start with phones and cellphone towers in low Earth orbit, then we move on to one of the most intriguing iPhone compromises we’ve ever heard andwe ha…

Episode 172
This week we focus on our amazing kids. From the effect the phone we send them off with “to keep them safe” has, to an amazing 13 year old crushing a 34 year old arcade game. We even end w…