Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 358

08/01/24 • 25 min

Episode 358 of the Transatlantic Cable Podcast kicks off with news of American Cybersecurity firm KnowBe4 getting duped by a North Korean hacker who successfully when through their HR checks and secured employment! Deepfake bullying being used by children on Snapchat. X/Twitter’s AI bot Grok is now reading your tweets, however there is a fix and we show you how to protect yourself. We close out the episode with news of a data breach at HealthEquity affecting 4.3 million people.

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· North Korean hacker gets employed at US Cybersecurity firm

· Deepfake bullying

· Grok AI reading public tweets

· HealthEquity data breach

If you liked what you heard, please consider subscribing.

· North Korean hacker gets employed at US Cybersecurity firm

· Deepfake bullying

· Grok AI reading public tweets

· HealthEquity data breach

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Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 357

Episode 357 of the Transatlantic Cable Podcast kicks off with news of the Telegram zero-day vulnerability that went unnoticed for 5 weeks, as well as further CrowdStrike woes with threat actors targeting companies with fake fixes. From there Ahmed & Jag go on to discuss a potential hacktivism hit on Disney in response to Disney’s embrace of AI, and finally wrap up with Elon unveiling human-like robots.

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· Telegram zero-day allowed sending malicious Android APKs as videos

· Fake CrowdStrike fixes target companies with malware, data wipers

· Disney investigating massive leak of internal messages

· Musk says Tesla to use humanoid robots next year

Next Episode

The Transatlantic Cable Podcast #359

Episode 359 kicks off with discussion around the recent riots in the U.K. and how the UK government is looking to leverage facial recognition to combat trouble makers. From there, the team discuss a strange story concerning how police forces in the U.S were able to locate a criminal via a lock-screen picture left at the scene of a crime.

To wrap up the team discuss news that artificial intelligence is being leveraged to help find the ‘next Olympians’ – however, results may vary.

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