Zoom Zoom with the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the week ending August 20th 2024

Episode 204

Join us as we Zoom in to the biggest crowd we have ever seen.
Fancy a cycle around the neighborhood with the kids on your hot new bicycle? Read our update first!
There’s a new copilot that could make a huge difference to your open source project and a huge new fine for one European mobile phone company (in the US).
Then, a story about a firm that could’ve had the best security in the world, but it wouldn’t have mattered because they published their own passwords on-line.
We get a solemn reminder that no matter how rich and how smart, there is always an element of risk in anything you do.
From Taiwan, a new Domain Name System (DNS) backdoor that is exponentially more clever.
And we finish by crashing a plane tracker that was leaking user data ….for three years.
We zoom 'round and 'round this big world of ours delivering the best in IT Privacy and Security.
So settle in and let’s go!

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