Episode 215

On U.S. election day, this is the update that will tear you away from the endless all night results shows.
Schneider Electric gets hacked, and the cyber thief is demanding $125,000 in something peculiar – a data breach with a French twist!
Scientists have discovered that plants “see” light by bending it through tiny air gaps – proving they don’t need eyes to point to something bright.
Opting out of Facial recognition site PimEyes means giving them more photos... and left us feeling conflicted.
Google’s AI Big Sleep found a bug in SQLite, so now we have AI debugging AI – what could possibly go wrong?
Meta’s AI models just got the green light for military use, because nothing says “peace” like open-source warfare tech.
The 26-year-old founder of Gotbit just got indicted for market manipulation – because apparently fake crypto trading volume isn’t cool with the feds.
A new report reveals that millions of American phones might be susceptible to Chinese surveillance could it be time to switch to encrypted apps or start using carrier pigeons?
Sit back, relax, and join in for the best update yet!

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Episode 214.5 This deep-dive session takes a more conversational look into the topics covered in Tuesday's update. More to enjoy!

EP214

Hacks, Zachs, and Smacks from the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the week ending October 29th., 2024

10/29/2024

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EP214 ​This week's update whirls us around the living room for a collection of stories demonstrating that your privacy and security are nothing to be taken for granted.
We start with a report with more troubling news about another robot vacuum cleaner gone rogue.
Then French newspaper Le Monde are the sleuths in unravelling more compromise for our global leaders from a fitness app that's already divulged the wearabouts of secret military bases.
The EU prepares to take a tough stance on insecure software.
We meet the next new secret agent and speculate that it could be a very lucrative new job role.
From there we learn the new numbers for Google's AI generated code and then have an update on a new open source LLM that checks for Zero days in Python code.
Finally we finish with an update from Microsoft's Threat Analysis Center for all those going to vote in the US November 5th.
We circled the floor for this week's collection of updates, and now it's time to clean up!

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