Unraveling the DNA of the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the week ending October 10th. 2023

Episode 160. In this week’s IT Privacy and Security weekly update:
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We start this week with a pause of remembrance to all those innocents caught up in the wars raging across the world. Often the highest price is paid by the most innocent.

October may be Cybersecurity month, but in the run-up to the holidays, we think it could also be “Call your grandparents month” too. Why? We have an eye opener from the FBI that may have you ringing your Grandmother as soon as you finish reading this.
Our second story to anyone at Amazon working remotely, “the gig’s up”.
Our third story gives us another reason to dislike having our photographs taken, with our fourth covering a little change that will keep our communications through one application safe for years.
Shockwaves from Cali in story five, and 23andMe unravelling our genetic secrets for our sixth update.
Finally we take a bite out of the line in one supercomputer’s greatest threat, and we hope it doesn’t give the cat any ideas.
Just like a strand of DNA, let’s go unravel these updates!

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