Meta Muse: When Your AI Assistant Becomes the Attack Surface
Meta’s Muse promises to act across a user’s connected digital life, but Tom Eston and Scott Wright explain why delegated authority, a report...
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The Shared Security Podcast
A podcast that brings you timely stories, news and tips for living securely in a connected world. Topics include Cybersecurity, Privacy, Internet of Things (IoT), Mobile Devices, Application...
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When Familiar Voices Become Scam Calls
A familiar voice is no longer proof of identity: Tom Eston and Scott Wright explain how AI voice-cloning scams use urgency and emotion, and...
Will AI Kill Us All? Real Risks, Real Controls
Tom, Scott, and Kevin separate speculative AI-doom predictions from the concrete risks created when fast, opaque systems gain authority with...
153 Million Driver’s Licenses for Sale: Why Identity Verification Is Broken
A reported cache of more than 153 million U.S. and Canadian driver’s-license scans allegedly sold through a dark-web service exposes how rou...
Is Hotel WiFi Safe?
Hotel Wi‑Fi is not automatically unsafe, but Microsoft’s CaptiveCrunch reporting shows how a routine captive-portal connection can be manipu...
Could a Pattern on Your Clothing Fool Facial Recognition? Interview with Bill Swearingen
Bill Swearingen explains adversarial clothing research, camera-vision confidence, and the privacy limits of biometric surveillance.
What Happens to Your Digital Life When You Die?
Scott Wright joins Tom and Kevin to walk through the Digital Legacy Tree framework and his upcoming book on digital legacy planning, coverin...
Flock Cameras Exposed: Traffic Tickets, ALPRs, and Vehicle Surveillance
Flock cameras and automated license plate readers are often sold as tools for finding stolen cars, wanted suspects, missing people, and seri...
GrapheneOS Phone Wipe Case: When Privacy Tools Become Evidence
A GrapheneOS phone-wipe prosecution raises concerns that privacy and security tools could be treated as suspicious by default during border/...
OpenAI Says Its AI Hacked Another Company on Its Own
OpenAI disclosed an unusual AI security incident involving a frontier model evaluation and Hugging Face, but the episode cuts through the hy...
Your Monitor Can Install Adware Now?
A new LG monitor triggering an automatic Windows companion app with a McAfee ad is more than an annoying popup. It is a reminder that hardwa...
Surveillance Pricing: When Your Data Sets the Price
Surveillance pricing turns personal data, shopping history, location signals, loyalty programs, and AI-driven profiling into different price...
Signal Phishing and Russian Intelligence Targeting Messaging Apps
Russian intelligence services are targeting Signal, WhatsApp, and Telegram users through phishing, linked-device abuse, and backup recovery...
The Supreme Court Just Put Limits on Geofence Warrants
Tom Eston and Scott Wright break down the Supreme Court’s geofence warrant/location privacy ruling and explain why everyday phone users shou...
Jay Beale on Kubernetes, DEF CON, and AI Attack Paths
Jay Beale joins Tom and Kevin for a funny, story-heavy conversation about physical pen tests, Kubernetes attack-and-defense training, DEF CO...
Can the Government Shut Down Frontier AI Overnight?
The U.S. government reportedly ordered Anthropic to suspend access to two of its newest frontier AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing nat...
Guarding AI Agents: Boundaries and Safeguards
AI agents are useful, but they become risky when they can take action in real systems. In this episode, Tom Eston discusses recent reporting...
Mobile Application Security: What Every Organization Needs to Know
Mobile apps are now deeply connected platforms for identities, payments, sessions, APIs, healthcare, retail, gaming, and cloud services. In...
Microsoft Threatens Legal Action Over Exploit Disclosure
Microsoft’s response to a researcher publicly disclosing proof-of-concept exploit code has reignited an old debate in security: where does r...
Apple Finally Fixes One of Texting’s Biggest Security Problems
Apple and Google are finally bringing end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging to iPhone and Android chats. In this episode, Tom Eston and Kevin T...