"No coal in them Stockings" from the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the Week Ending December 24th., 2024

Episode 222  For our first story Bot Detection Is No Longer Working.  CAPTCHAs are now a reverse IQ test—humans fail while bots ace them effortlessly.Then senators rip into the automakers: Car makers sell your data but won’t let you fix your car—talk about a two-for-one insult.Fancy digital plates? Cool until someone hacks them to dodge tolls—or make you pay theirs.A GPS tracker company left customer data exposed, which is a little ironic for a business built on knowing your every move.Then a new smart assistant that won’t gossip about you to the cloud. It's still got some rough edges, but we'll take rough over exposed.Apple’s sending spyware victims to a nonprofit because even their genius bar needs backup sometimes.Australia’s future-proofing by ditching old cryptography—quantum hackers, this puts them way ahead of the elliptic curve!From there it's another day, another healthcare hack.  This time it’s 5.6 million patients learning about their healthcare provider's poor data hygiene the hard way.Still using SMS for 2FA? The feds say it’s a lot like locking your door but leaving the key under the mat.The US Department of Homeland Security says global spies are routinely using old and completely insecure SS7 telecom flaws.  Maybe you want to rethink that unencrypted text you just sent.We filled your stockings with this weeks update, and the best part?  Not a single piece of coal in sight!  Let's get unwrapping! Find the full transcript to this podcast here.