Transatlantic Cable Podcast

To kick things off, we look at some new research tied to Google & Alexa devices. This one is more of a proof of concept on malicious apps phishing from a smart device already in homes.

From there, we stay with Google to look at the new Pixel 4, which has some issues when it comes to the face unlock feature.

The final stories look at how the US defence program is finally retiring their 8 inch floppy drive computers and how the girl scouts are getting into cyber-security.

After a two-week hiatus from the podcast, Dave returns episode 114.

We open by looking at the latest news on the Facebook front. Unlike most of our podcasts, the focus won’t be on privacy snafus, instead, we will look at the latest news with Facebook’s Libra. 

Following up on that, we look at issues around privacy surrounding smart speakers and whether or not owners should disclose their presence to guests in the house. We also look at jackpotting ATMs and scams surrounding jailbreaking your iPho

On this podcast, Jeff flies solo with Dave still on vacation. Discussing the latest in Twitter’s Tailored Audience snafu, the US, UK and Australia looking for encryption backdoors and more.

For the 112th edition of the Kaspersky Transatlantic Cable podcast, I head to Moscow to discuss privacy with four of my corporate communications colleagues.

During the 20+ minute talk with Julia, Kate, Oksana and Anya, the discussion ranges from how we share online to what privacy is, what it is not and who should be regulating privacy on the Internet.

Episode 111 kicks off by looking at how Facebook has suspended tens of thousands of apps in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. 

From there, we look at how TikTok is being targeted by dating scams. We then move along to Google announcing  that they have changed some policies tied to reducing the amount of recordings that will be listened to by humans from Google Home.

We close by looking at how a school is using AI to help detect depression in pupils.

This week, the first story us looking at YouTube for the second week in a row - where major advertisers are seeing their ads landing next to fake cancer cure videos.

Following that, we take a look at the latest hoops that Equifax is making victims of the breach jump through to gain their $125. After that, we look into an alleged ransomware attack that has hit US radio giant, Entercom.

The final story looks at a unique crime – instead of the cyber world, we focus on the loo.

On this edition, Dave and Jeff kick things off by looking at the $107 million fine for YouTube after violated child privacy laws.

After that, we stay in the States and discuss a recent outage at Tesla’s app that left some unable to start their cars. In an interesting bucking of trends, New Bedford, Massachusetts didn't pay hackers who hit their systems with ransomware. To wrap up we look at some public mud-flinging from Apple towards Google.

Our first story lands us in the browser world where we take a look at all the good things coming to Firefox 69.

Then, we jump over to Germany and an interesting case of banking customers having chip and pin cards cloned and €1.2 million racked up in charges. The third story takes us across the Atlantic where hundreds of dental offices have been hit with ransomware. To close things out, we head to Jolly Ole England where the TfL is asking customers to write their passwords on a sheet of paper.

To kick off episode 107, we head to Kazakhstan. A while back, the government asked its citizens to install a certificate so they could track all traffic. Now Google, Apple and Mozilla have blocked that tracking on their browsers. 

We then look at Valve being forced to patch two zero-days after a researcher found them, how T-Mobile gave away mobile location data to a bounty-hunter and how Xbox contractors have been tuning into some voice commands.

To start, we take a look at the new ransomware targeting players of Fortnite. Following that, we examine a story from the UK that discusses how Mercedes is using sensors in leased vehicles to help repo men take back cars from those who didn't pay. After that, Dave talks with Brian Bartholomew of our GReAT team on the state of healthcare in North America. The fourth story heads to the great state of Texas where 22 municipalities have been hit with a ransomware attack.