The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update.

By: R. Prescott Stearns Jr.
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  • We are embarking on year five for this award-winning, light-hearted, lightweight IT privacy and security podcast that spans the globe in terms of issues covered with topics that draw in everyone from executive to newbie to tech specialist. Your investment of between 15 and 20 minutes a week will bring you up to speed on half a dozen current stories from around the world.
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  • China Gets busy on the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the week ending October 1st. 2024.

    China Gets busy on the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the week ending October 1st. 2024.
    Oct 1 2024

    EP210

    For this update we kick off with 11 million devices and end with a way to track those that were supposed to be un-trackable.
    We start with the reoccurrence from a family of malware that once was eradicated, but now seems to have reappeared.
    We move from there to the US where the Federal Trade Commission has finally decided to weigh in on social media apps. and how they are making money.
    From there a new way to get phished. This one is aimed at developers, but the next, may have you in it's sights.
    We are gifted a new browser in the Firefox class. We tried it and we like it.
    The US moves on smart car bans for nation-states it thinks should not have access to hoover up data within the continental US
    Then China breaks into a firm through an outdated IBM mainframe and lingers...
    We close the update with an ingenious story of how China is using Starlink satellites to make the invisible visible.
    This week we catch lots of frenetic activity. Let's go see how China has kept busy!

    Click here for a full transcript to this podcast.
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    14 mins

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