Transatlantic Cable Podcast

To kick things off, Dave and Jeff look at the recent robo-calling endemic in the US and how some companies are rushing to your rescue - or are they just after your personal info?

After that , they look at the new security cameras that are using facial recognition in King’s Cross. For those of you looking to go to Hogwarts, you may want to use a spell or two to protect your privacy. To close out the week, we look at intrusion by warshipping.

To begin, we head to a meeting of the Five Eyes nations as ministers look to argue that weakening encryption is in the best interests of nations - really?

Following that story, we head to the US where a law is being proposed to congress to ban addictive properties of social networks. We keep on the law topic and look at the challenges from privacy groups about Amazon’s Ring doorbell and its role in surveillance by law enforcement.  We close out looking at the latest in the Equifax breach.

To start things off, we go to the state of Louisiana where a handful of schools have been hit with a malware attack. From there, we jump across the Atlantic to Africa where a electrical company has been hit with ransomware. The next story heads North to England where Mozilla has pointed out that a tool meant to show transparency in political ads is not working as it should.

To close things out, we look at a new vulnerability in contactless payments.

The first story of the week takes a look at the fine levied on Equifax following their 2017 databreach, however the $700 million fine levied doesn’t sit well with me Jeff.

From there, Dave and Jeff jump over to privacy from a banking institution who points out that posting pets on Instagram may be putting millennials at risk for fraud. Our third story is the one that NO ONE asked for – smart diapers (nappies for those in the UK).

Our first story looks at a new service in the UK where users can report Facebook scams after a man wins a lawsuit for using his image in fake ads.

From there, we stay on the topic and look at a whopping five billion dollar fine levied from the FTC against Facebook. The third story of the week takes a look at how people are now discovering that Google is listening to the recordings from Google Home. Following that story, we discuss how smart meters in the UK are switching to Welsh....

In this special, 100th episode of the Kaspersky podcast, Dave and Jeff take a look back at some of the strangest, and down-right oddball stories of the past 99 episodes.

But it's not all fun and games - Dave and Jeff also take a look at some far more serious stories doing the rounds in the news as well, starting with the recent BA and Marriott's fines.  They then take a look at how Instagram is trying to combat bullies on their platform through the use of A.I

To kick things off, we start in the good ole USA where a second Florida City has paid for a ransomware attack and the worrying trend of cities paying the crooks. From there, we head to a different kind of circus and look at the lack of security protocol in their app. The third story follows up on the security breach of the US border.

Then, we look at the world of fake Instagram verification before closing out with a tale of how our boss’ smart home was hacked.

For the 98th edition of the Kaspersky Transatlantic Cable podcast, Dave and Jeff jump between the consumer world to a small dip into government ransomware attacks.

To start things off, they jump into the world of music for the second straight week. In this story, Genius says that they have evidence of Google scraping their site for song lyrics.

To wrap up, they take a look at a recent story around ransomware attacking a US city infrastructure.

Episode 97 of the Kaspersky Transatlantic Cable podcast looks at two impending lawsuits against Amazon and US telco providers.

After that, we head to the music world where Radiohead was threatened by a hacker to release minidisks from OK Computer. Instead of paying the ransom, they released (for a fee) on the internet for all to see.

To close things out, we discuss the deepfake of Mark Zuckerberg that went viral after showing up on Instagram.

In episode 96 of the Kaspersky podcast, Jeff and Dave tackle several thorny issues including a recent uproar with PewDiePie and Nimses. They then move onto to look at the recent decision by Facebook to close Open Graph Search and what that means for researchers.

They then jump over to discussion around Mozilla's decision to create a premium version of Firefox and how one guy was unlucky enough to have his Pizza Hut account hacked.