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Transatlantic Cable Podcast

Transatlantic Cable Podcast

Written by: Kaspersky
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Each week the Kaspersky team break down some useful cybersecurity stories that you may have missed during your busy week. Politics & Government
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  • The Transatlantic Cable Podcast #365
    Oct 3 2024

    Episode 365 kicks off with discussion around Donald Trump's recent courting of the crypto world. From there talk moves to Mozilla's recent decision to enable Privacy Preserving Attribution (PPA) by default – and that's got some in the EU worried.

    To wrap up the team discuss two stories related to A.I – first around Microsoft suggesting that omnipresent AI companions will soon be a thing, and second how AI is now capable of completing CAPTCHA quicker, and more efficiently than any human. How the tables have turned.

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    • Crypto world hoping for Trump election win
    • Mozilla Faces GDPR Complaint Over New Firefox Tracking Feature
    • Microsoft: 'ever present' AI assistants are coming
    • AI just made a mockery of CAPTCHA and that's bad news for real people
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    35 mins
  • The Transatlantic Cable Podcast #364
    Sep 25 2024

    Episode 364 kicks off with a chat around the recent furore around Telegram's problem with unsavoury content. Following that, the conversation moves to a story that might concern people who rely on TOR (The Onion Router), as it's been disclosed that German police managed to de-anonymise data coming out of an exit node, in order to track and arrest owners of an illegal site.

    To wrap up, the team discuss news that delivery robots have been acting erratic, with some cases of them running over pedestrians, seemingly on purpose. Finally, to close conversation turns to Tamagotchi's and their seeming imminent return.

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    • Telegram will now provide some user data to authorities
    • Police Broke Tor Anonymity to Arrest Dark Web Users in Major CSAM Bust
    • Delivery Robot Knocked Over Pedestrian, Company Offered 'Promo Codes' to Apologize
    • A Tamagotchi comeback? Toy gets first UK store as global sales double
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    40 mins
  • The Transatlantic Cable Podcast #363
    Sep 12 2024

    Episode 363 kicks off with a discussion around moderation on the popular messaging service, Telegram. From there the team move to discuss how one person managed to siphon off over $10 million from the likes of Spotify and Apple using bots to stream music.

    To wrap up the team discuss two stories, the first looking at how the Democrats in America are using "brain rot" videos, and the second looks at the seedy underworld of stolen mobile phones.

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    • Telegram reportedly 'inundated' with illegal and extremist activity
    • Musician charged with $10M streaming royalties fraud using AI and bots
    • Kamala Harris Campaign Experiments With Ads for an Audience With "Brain Rot"
    • Thieves snatched his phone in London - it was in China a month later
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    45 mins
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