Hey! It’s 5:05, Friday, January 27, 2023. From the Sourced Podcast Network in New York City, this is your host, Pokie Huang. Stories in today’s episode come from Edwin Kwan in Sydney Australia, Trac Bannon in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, Katy Craig in San Diego, California, Paulo Gouveia in Everglades, Florida, Olimpiu Pop in Transylvania, Romania and Mark Miller in New York City.

Let’s get to it!

🇦🇺 Edwin Kwan, Sydney, Australia

Your Data is more valuable than you may realise

https://www.welivesecurity.com/2023/01/26/data-more-valuable-you-realize/

https://techwireasia.com/2023/01/observing-data-privacy-day-the-importance-of-protecting-personal-information-in-the-digital-age/

https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/28-january-data-protection-day

🇺🇸 Tracy (Trac) Bannon, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania

A helping hand for Cyber Criminals: ChatGPT

https://research.checkpoint.com/2023/opwnai-cybercriminals-starting-to-use-chatgpt/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2023/01/06/chatgpt-cybercriminal-malware-female-chatbots/?sh=1d4bbbf05534

https://www.pcmag.com/news/cybercriminals-using-chatgpt-to-build-hacking-tools-write-code

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/openais-new-chatgpt-bot-10-dangerous-things-its-capable-of/

🇺🇸 Katy Craig, San Diego, California

Weapon of Mass Distraction

https://gurwinder.substack.com/p/tiktok-may-be-a-chinese-bio-weapon

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8622754/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j0xzuh-6rY

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/20/tech/china-tiktok-douyin-usage-limit-intl-hnk/index.html

https://www.sciencealert.com/iq-scores-falling-in-worrying-reversal-20th-century-intelligence-boom-flynn-effect-intelligence

🇺🇸 Paulo Gouveia, Everglades, Florida

Good news at last

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-department-justice-disrupts-hive-ransomware-variant

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/1/26/us-shuts-down-major-ransomware-network-hive

https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ncas/alerts/aa22-321a

🇷🇴 Olimpiu Pop, Transylvania, Romania

Austrian Police Disclose Data Theft For Almost Every Austrian

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/charted-the-dark-web-price-index-2022/

https://www.privacyaffairs.com/dark-web-price-index-2022/

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/dutch-hacker-obtained-virtually-all-austrians-personal-data-police-say-2023-01-25/

https://www.heute.at/s/hacker-25-stahl9-millionen-oesterreichische-meldedaten-100251437

🇺🇸 Mark Miller, New York City

Google Ads go Phishing for Bitwarden

https://community.bitwarden.com/t/phishing-website-bitwardenlogin-com/49704

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bitwarden-password-vaults-targeted-in-google-ads-phishing-attack/