EPISODE · Jul 13, 2026 · 1H 15M
7 Million Driver's Licenses Leaked, Sainsbury's Facial Recognition Fail, Google Sues Gemini Scammers
from The Awareness Angle: Security Awareness and Human Risk · host Risky Creative - Cyber Security for Humans
Episode 96 of The Awareness AngleThis 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 Intro01:17 Housekeeping and the heatwave chat03:25 Breach Watch: AssuranceAmerica driver's license breach09:47 Accenture source code breach13:22 Sainsbury's facial recognition wrongly flags shopper20:07 15 year old uses ChatGPT to hack Bandai Namco26:18 OnlyFans creators accidentally clean up hacked gov sites32:04 Scattered Spider hacker caught by Windows device ID41:35 Google sues scammers who abused its own Gemini AI47:30 Quick hit stories57:17 Security Socials1:07:42 Luke's story: AI deepfake YouTube channel1:14:20 Wrap upNewsletter: riskycreative.comLinkedIn: linkedin.com/newsletters/the-awareness-angle-newsletter-7274932363787132928Instagram/TikTok: @antdaviscyberYouTube: @riskycreativeMusic: "16" by Falling Forever, https://fallingforever.bandcamp.com/track/16, licensed under Creative Commons, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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