Episode 96 of The Awareness Angle
This week an insurance company leaked driver's license numbers for nearly 7 million people because one employee clicked a phishing email. Sainsbury's facial recognition system was 99.98% accurate and 100% wrong about the shopper it publicly kicked out. A 15 year old took down a national anime streaming service with malware ChatGPT helped him write. A Scattered Spider suspect hopped three countries on a VPN and still got caught by a number hidden in every Windows PC. And Google's own AI helped scammers steal $1.9 billion, so now Google is suing people for using Google properly.
Ant and Luke break it all down in plain English, no jargon, for anyone who wants to understand what's actually happening in cybersecurity without needing a technical background.
Plus this week's Phish of the Week from Hoxhunt and a look at what's trending across security socials.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:17 Housekeeping and the heatwave chat
03:25 Breach Watch: AssuranceAmerica driver's license breach
09:47 Accenture source code breach
13:22 Sainsbury's facial recognition wrongly flags shopper
20:07 15 year old uses ChatGPT to hack Bandai Namco
26:18 OnlyFans creators accidentally clean up hacked gov sites
32:04 Scattered Spider hacker caught by Windows device ID
41:35 Google sues scammers who abused its own Gemini AI
47:30 Quick hit stories
57:17 Security Socials
1:07:42 Luke's story: AI deepfake YouTube channel
1:14:20 Wrap up
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YouTube: @riskycreative
Music: "16" by Falling Forever, https://fallingforever.bandcamp.com/track/16, licensed under Creative Commons, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
