EPISODE · Sep 4, 2026 · 19 MIN
#AxisOfEasy 466: You Handed Over Your Licence At The Counter. Now 153 Million Scans Are For sale
from #AxisOfEasy Weekly Tech Digest · host Mark E. Jeftovic
In this issue: A dark-web service is selling scans of 153 million U.S. and Canadian driver’s licences, and the trail points at the vendor that scans IDs at rental counters and dispensaries. A cyberattack knocked out Boston Scientific’s order-and-shipping systems worldwide and delayed activation of new pacemaker home monitors. A perfect-storm JFrog Artifactory bug lets anyone mint an admin token, and attackers were forging them within three days of the patch. Researchers spent $535.74 and eight and a half hours getting Claude to port a working exploit to an industrial controller — then it bricked the device. Two more surveillance backdoors turned up in Chinese-made routers sold worldwide under brand names the real manufacturer never prints on the box. In this issue: A dark-web service is selling scans of 153 million U.S. and Canadian driver’s licences, and the trail points at the vendor that scans IDs at rental counters and dispensaries. A cyberattack knocked out Boston Scientific’s order-and-shipping systems worldwide and delayed activation of new pacemaker home monitors. A perfect-storm JFrog Artifactory bug lets anyone mint an admin token, and attackers were forging them within three days of the patch. Researchers spent $535.74 and eight and a half hours getting Claude to port a working exploit to an industrial controller — then it bricked the device. Two more surveillance backdoors turned up in Chinese-made routers sold worldwide under brand names the real manufacturer never prints on the box.
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