This week we take you from an employer that won’t even let you in the building if you are not smiling, to your best friend when there is just … one… CCTV too many.

In between, we get a loud warning for publicly accessible Western Digital personal storage, a couple of painful admissions from Microsoft, and US phone users getting shaken and stirred.

In the mix, we also have a place for you to jump into a 3d world for a little "privacy and chill" should you wish.

It’s all here, it’s all fresh, and it’s just about the best IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update yet.

Let’s put on a great big smile and get to work!

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From splashing in cold waters to baking in hot homes we cover the whole temperature range.

After a good headcount of our critical drinking water infrastructure, we give you the lowdown on tracking, bots, faces, and fingerprints. We update you on compliance, regulations, and (sadly) taxes, before delivering really bad news for our RedHat Linux and Docker users.

Finally, we unbork your iPhone before revealing just why you might be reading this in a full sweat.

So pull on your swimming trunks, put on your gloves and let’s go have an adventure with this week’s IT Privacy and Security Update!

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“There’s only one thing I never did and wish I had done: climbed over a fence.” Mary of Teck

This week we start in El Salvador and end in mid-air.

In between those fence posts, we find: Breaches for airlines and autos and then discover one already being served up with a side of fries.

We find out how Google really motivates their staff, learn about Facebook suing a whole government, malware “photobombing” FujiFilm, the huge market for fake product reviews … and why the legal community is turning against geofencing.

This simply is the best IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update yet. Now let’s go climb a fence!

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This week we start with the Danish spying on the Germans. The Germans hacking .PDFs. The Cook keeping things private. The Tag"ee" smashing things with hammers.

Then, a story about how the coppers recovered loads of Bitcoin from the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, but they still need Elon Musk to up-tweet Bitcoin or they’ll be out 20%!

Finally, we finish with an Anonymous video to Elon Musk that has viewers asking for more!

It’s all here in an entertaining, fun, thrilling, mix of the best stories for all “citizens of the world”, so let’s get this party started!

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We prescribe an update that’s just chock full of news that could very well help you see more clearly or leave you blind, wondering why you just bought those really dear headphones.

We start with tracking, move on to toothpaste, and then get a nosebleed from hits the ransomware group Conti has inflicted before we have our use of a certain term validated.

We discover how to tell the difference between “Dumb AI”, “Smart AI” and “Really Smart AI”.

And we leave you with a couple of health checks that have nothing to do with IT Privacy or Security but could have you feeling much better about your own visual and audio acuity.

This is without a doubt just what the doctor ordered, so let’s hang up our jackets, roll up our sleeves and get going!

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On the first anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, we’d like to take a moment to pause and reflect. Changing social bias is an evolution, just as realizing and changing our own. But with continued effort, we can make a difference. Just as ignorance promotes prejudice, we can all learn to be kinder, gentler, and more accepting of the differences of those around us.

This week we start IT Privacy and Security with the sound off, a revelation about a new type of malware that actually checks a directory to look up its victims before attacking them, and then a type of manipulation we are sure you’ve experienced but probably never realized was so rampant.

We follow with a story about poor judgment and bad publicity and the heroic efforts of so many as they work to help others. There is news on privacy and security changes in Android 12, and yet another update for macOS.

We end on a lighter note with the story about the significance of composition in photography, stressing the importance of keeping your fingerprints away from the final product.

On this solemn day let’s learn something new. Together.

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This week we take apart the various elements of ransomware so you know what the stats are upfront. Costs, protective steps, and tooling so that if the unthinkable ever were to happen you would know your options.

We remind you that although ransomware is (literally) stealing the headlines, there are a few other gremlins out there that you might also want to sidestep.

We end with some entertaining quotes from the cryptographer's panel made while they were out of their dark workshops attending the RSA conference this week.

Encrypted or decrypted … we think you’ll find that this is the best IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update yet, so let’s refactor and get started!

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Through the acrid smell of trouser fires we bring you an incredibly varied line up of stories.

We start with a zero day that burned the world’s most popular .PDF reader, the dirt around the pipeline, a not-nice new activity for Apple Tags and early results of Apple’s app tracking option.

We flame out with proof that you should not trust ransomware developers, another government attempt try and get us to believe that 5G doesn’t cause Covid-19 and end with a Zero day attack on the Universal Turing Machine.

You are going to love each and every spark of a story, each ,will fan the flames of your passion for IT Privacy and Security.

So let’s catch our balance, get fired up and go!

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We start with the true story of May the fourth, and end up with a suggestion that might just prevent injury.

In between those lovely layers of freshly baked updates are sandwiched some very tasty servers, Russian Dressing, some NY rye, something else that smacks of dog food, doublestuff and an apple.

After you finish, your mum will be waiting for you.

Now on our best behavior: Let’s order the flowers, pull up our socks, straighten our shirts and make the best impression yet … with the best IT Privacy and Security Update yet!

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This week we start with a uniquely Canadian turn of events that has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with privacy or security but was essential nonetheless, and end up chasing the cat around the office.

In between we find out why the C-suite of gaming companies are themselves becoming targets, a newly developing jab / job relationship, just what the new MacOS update stops, what’s behind the Linux fracas, some stats on ransomware and then... what’s going on with Reverb.

It’s loud, it’s raucous and it’s just getting started, so turn on the noise cancelling, turn up the volume and let’s get going!

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