1
00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,840
This week Instructure paid Shiny
Hunters and says the student 

2
00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:06,120
data is gone, but nobody 
believes them. 

3
00:00:06,520 --> 00:00:09,320
Twin brothers got fired on a 
Teams call, forgot it was 

4
00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:14,360
recording and deleted 96 
government databases live on the

5
00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:17,840
mic. 
Kids are beating age 

6
00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:20,040
verification with a drawn on 
moustache. 

7
00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:22,400
This isn't a joke, it is a news 
podcast. 

8
00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:25,880
Google says hackers used AI to 
find a zero day for the first 

9
00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:31,880
time and a Stoner just recovered
$400,000 in Bitcoin after losing

10
00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:37,360
his password whilst high in 2015
using AI. 

11
00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:41,280
All of that and more in this 
week's The Awareness Angle. 

12
00:00:53,480 --> 00:00:57,720
With me, as always is I'm sorry 
I've done it again. 

13
00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:02,960
I'm Matt Davis, obviously, and 
with me, as always, is my 

14
00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:05,440
partner in cybercrime 
prevention, Mr Luke Pettigrew. 

15
00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:08,520
How you doing, Luke? 
Hey, I'm good to you. 

16
00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:10,200
I'm good. 
What was the last thing you said

17
00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:13,440
to me before I pressed record? 
Don't forget to introduce 

18
00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:15,720
yourself. 
And I did it again. 

19
00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:17,920
So there we go. 
Yeah, that's all right. 

20
00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:22,000
Another week of crazy news 
stories that sounds just as 

21
00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:25,280
made-up as last week. 
I like, it's unbelievable isn't 

22
00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:28,160
it? 
Drawn on moustaches, deleting 

23
00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:31,760
whilst live on a team's 
recording and AI recovering a 

24
00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:34,480
stone as Bitcoin. 
That's just the tip of the 

25
00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:36,320
iceberg. 
There's a few more we've got to 

26
00:01:36,320 --> 00:01:39,080
talk about this week, so let's 
get straight into it, shall we? 

27
00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:48,000
With this week's breech watch, 
right, first up, nobody believes

28
00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:51,680
the hackers who breached Canvas 
actually deleted the student 

29
00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:53,120
data. 
So a couple of weeks ago, we 

30
00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:56,240
spoke about Instructure and 
Canvas. 

31
00:01:56,760 --> 00:01:59,880
This was all of the 
universities, not just in the US

32
00:01:59,880 --> 00:02:03,160
as someone on Tiktok pointed 
out, but it's in the UK as well 

33
00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:07,400
that they were looking in to do 
finals and there was a lovely 

34
00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:11,600
ransomware message displayed. 
So shiny hunters claim 3.65 

35
00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:16,080
terabytes of stolen data from 
Canvas Stroke Instructure. 

36
00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:20,080
Canvas LMS is the product. 
Instructure is the company that 

37
00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:26,920
develops it. 275,000,000 users 
across 9000 schools worldwide. 

38
00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:29,720
It's huge. 
And the data included names, 

39
00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:32,720
emails, student IDs, and 
billions of private messages 

40
00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:35,040
between students and their 
teachers. 

41
00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:40,200
So it was reported this week 
that Instructure paid up. 

42
00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:43,640
They paid the ransom. 
They're all a ransom. 

43
00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:45,440
It's not been disclosed, I don't
think. 

44
00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:50,800
And they've claimed to have 
received shred logs as proof of 

45
00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:52,800
data destruction. 
So they've paid to make the 

46
00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:58,400
problem go away. 
According to the Register, every

47
00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:01,200
single security expert that 
they've spoken to doesn't 

48
00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:04,640
believe that the data is gone. 
And why? 

49
00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:09,080
Because back in 2024, Power 
School did exactly the same 

50
00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:11,640
thing. 
They paid $2.85 million in 

51
00:03:11,640 --> 00:03:16,000
Bitcoin, watched a video of the 
documents being deleted, and 

52
00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:19,120
then five months later, that 
very same data was used to 

53
00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:21,360
extort individual school 
districts. 

54
00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:24,360
It just moved down the pipe, 
moved down the line, went to the

55
00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:27,040
supply chain. 
So it's it's almost a supply 

56
00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:31,720
chain attack at that point. 
So yeah, I think this is this is

57
00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:35,200
an example of, and we've spoken 
about this before, many 

58
00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:38,720
businesses attitude to a 
ransomware attack will be pay 

59
00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:42,040
the ransom, get the problem, 
make it go away, make it go. 

60
00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:44,360
Away. 
Yeah, some. 

61
00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:48,160
It's also something that I mean,
a lot of, I don't know, maybe 

62
00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:50,840
not a lot, but some governments 
recommend not to pay it, right. 

63
00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:54,680
Yeah. 
Maybe even some cyber insurance 

64
00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:57,920
might have some sort of stuff 
around that sort of stuff. 

65
00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:03,080
But no, it's you don't usually 
hear of companies doing that and

66
00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:06,600
not so more recently. 
Not so openly as well. 

67
00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:10,760
Yeah. 
But yeah, I guess it makes you 

68
00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:14,600
wonder how many copies of it 
exists and is it backed up 

69
00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:16,640
somewhere? 
Someone copied it to the yeah 

70
00:04:16,959 --> 00:04:20,839
hard drive or something. 
The Register says that whilst 

71
00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:24,680
data suggests that fewer 
organisations are paying 

72
00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:28,560
criminal ransomware demands, 
Chain analysis found percentage 

73
00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:32,520
of paying victims in 25 dropped 
to a new all time low of 28%. 

74
00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:35,200
Despite previously hitting 
record highs. 

75
00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:41,000
The pay not paid debate still 
becomes much more complicated. 

76
00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:42,880
And we spoke about this 
actually. 

77
00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:46,760
I think organisations say 
publicly they won't pay and many

78
00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:51,480
genuine don't. 
But when in that situation, your

79
00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:54,520
playbook goes out the window and
you just like, you know, you 

80
00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:57,800
start making those decisions in 
the heat of the moment and you 

81
00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:02,840
just want to get it solved. 
So yes, it's one to look out 

82
00:05:02,840 --> 00:05:05,080
for. 
If, if, if you've been affected 

83
00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:09,800
by the Canvas breach, keep your 
eyes peeled over the coming 

84
00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:13,480
months because and, or if you're
a customer of if you're an 

85
00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:17,440
organisation or an Academy or an
educational institution that 

86
00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:20,320
uses Canvas, this might not have
gone away. 

87
00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:22,680
This just might have been gone. 
This just might have gone away 

88
00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:25,960
for now, I think is the message 
here. 

89
00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:30,520
It might, might not be Canvas's 
problem anymore in structure, 

90
00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:33,840
you know, we've dealt with it. 
Anything that comes down the 

91
00:05:33,840 --> 00:05:35,720
pipe's probably someone else's 
problem now. 

92
00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:41,240
So yeah, just remember as well, 
any views and opinions expressed

93
00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:43,400
in this show are ours and do not
represent those of you. 

94
00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:45,680
Our employers probably should 
have said that from the off, but

95
00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:48,600
there we go. 
That's right, it had 

96
00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:51,600
prerecorded, Yeah, little piece 
drop as. 

97
00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:55,680
The disclaimer in the titles, 
right, Move on to the next one. 

98
00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:00,680
Cool. 
Next one, we got 716,000 

99
00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:04,280
impacted by Open Loop Health 
data breach. 

100
00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:09,680
So hackers have stolen personal 
data of individuals during 

101
00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:14,440
January 2026. 
It's a telehealth platform, Open

102
00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:20,160
Loop Health, which is like a 
remote care consultation and 

103
00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:24,920
monitoring platform. 
Yeah, they've had they had 

104
00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:28,760
access for roughly 24 hours 
before being discovered and a 

105
00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:31,560
16,000 individuals have been 
affected. 

106
00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:36,080
Names, addresses, emails, dates 
of birth, medical information, 

107
00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:41,800
Social Security numbers for 
natural data was not accessed. 

108
00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:48,920
Gotten to open loop and a frag 
to call in themselves stuck in 

109
00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:51,960
2019 claimed responsibility on 
the hacking forum. 

110
00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:58,760
I mean that they had 1.6 million
patients, which is interesting, 

111
00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:02,560
certainly a lot more than the 
affected individuals. 

112
00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:10,200
And by posting some samples as 
proof that the forum listing was

113
00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:12,560
taken down, which is a bit of a 
weird one. 

114
00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:19,160
And yeah, it this sort of 
effects multiple health care 

115
00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:22,240
organisations, not just one 
thing. 

116
00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:27,880
So they're AUS company, yes, not
just not just limit to one 

117
00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:31,120
hospital or one on a clinic. 
So every organisation that uses 

118
00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:35,880
their infrastructure to deliver 
virtual care may be affected 

119
00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:40,800
with this? 
Yeah, it's discovered on January

120
00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:45,840
7th, engaged fed by 
cybersecurity specialists, 

121
00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:51,360
confirmed that they were 
terminated within 24 hours and 

122
00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:55,960
they notified various various 
places. 

123
00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:02,560
And yeah, it's interesting that 
yeah, they've claimed 1.6 

124
00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:06,800
million records, but there was a
confirmed number of 716,000. 

125
00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:12,040
But maybe there's some something
weird going on there, duplicates

126
00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:16,320
or some exaggeration there. 
But yeah. 

127
00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:20,360
And not too unusual. 
Affected individuals being 

128
00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:23,240
offered one year of free 
identity and credit monitoring. 

129
00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:29,160
I find this, I mean, this is a 
great example, 24 hours, they 

130
00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:34,960
had access for 24 hours and 
they've made off with, you know,

131
00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:39,000
over 700,000 records and yeah, 
the damage is done. 

132
00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:42,400
You know, that's all it takes. 
It doesn't need more than that. 

133
00:08:42,919 --> 00:08:45,680
Yet the average time to 
discovery from your network 

134
00:08:45,680 --> 00:08:47,640
being compromised is like 200 
days. 

135
00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:51,520
So it's imagine the damage they 
could do in 200 days, you know? 

136
00:08:51,680 --> 00:08:53,960
Yeah, it's mad. 
No, it's go crazy. 

137
00:08:54,840 --> 00:09:01,240
Yeah, so and the other thing 
here is they're a back end 

138
00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:04,040
platform. 
So they're not they're someone 

139
00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:06,720
that you wouldn't realise had 
your data necessarily. 

140
00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:08,320
And then she'd really done a 
deep dive. 

141
00:09:08,680 --> 00:09:13,120
So it's, you know, you may be 
affected by this and not 

142
00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:17,280
realise. 
Yeah, but that's the other scary

143
00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:20,560
thing with this. 
So keep an eye out for fishing 

144
00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:22,240
obviously I think is the big 
one. 

145
00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:26,200
It's it's. 
Yeah, definitely. 

146
00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:29,520
Any data? 
Anything dodgy around your 

147
00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:32,320
medical because it's it's names,
addresses, e-mail addresses, 

148
00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:34,240
date of birth and medical 
information. 

149
00:09:34,680 --> 00:09:39,320
So any how would they use that 
medical surveys, medication 

150
00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:44,680
surveys, counselling, you know 
anything new that doesn't look 

151
00:09:44,680 --> 00:09:48,320
normal that references anything 
medical related to you. 

152
00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:51,480
That information is out there. 
It's not like, Oh, well, it must

153
00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:53,040
be true because only my doctor 
knows that. 

154
00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:56,520
Not anymore. 
Many more people know that now 

155
00:09:56,520 --> 00:09:58,120
or could know that. 
Yeah, so. 

156
00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:04,400
Well, hopefully those affected 
now may know who they are, but 

157
00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:06,160
there's not a lot of information
on this article. 

158
00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:11,000
But yeah. 
Right, that's it for this week's

159
00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:13,680
breaches. 
Let's move on to some news, 

160
00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:18,960
right? 
Top story this week. 

161
00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:20,720
I love this. 
I think this is brilliant. 

162
00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:26,480
Twin brothers deleted 96 
government databases while still

163
00:10:26,680 --> 00:10:34,400
on a recorded teams call. 
So the brothers, they worked for

164
00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:38,080
a company called Opexus, a 
Washington, DC firm that sold 

165
00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:41,800
software and services to 45 
different federal clients. 

166
00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:45,920
And they were fired after the 
company discovered that one of 

167
00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:49,480
them had a prior felony 
conviction during a background 

168
00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:52,120
review. 
How did they even get recruited?

169
00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:55,960
It's only upon a further review 
that they've been fired. 

170
00:10:56,640 --> 00:10:58,960
So HR terminated them during a 
team's call. 

171
00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:01,400
Could can we have a team's call?
Yeah, We're terminating your, 

172
00:11:01,560 --> 00:11:03,200
your contract because we've 
found this out. 

173
00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:09,360
The access for one of the twins 
was cut immediately, the one 

174
00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:14,080
that had the felony, but the 
other one had connected to the 

175
00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:17,040
VPN 10 minutes before the 
meeting and still maintained 

176
00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:21,520
full access. 
So that that twin Munib started 

177
00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:24,000
restricting changes to 
production databases and then 

178
00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,360
deleted them. 
And the entire conversation was 

179
00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:30,880
recorded because the HR person 
had been recording the call and 

180
00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:35,080
the brothers didn't leave the HR
call after HR had disconnected, 

181
00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:39,080
they stayed on the team's call. 
So they had actual video 

182
00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:44,120
evidence of this and the entire 
conversation was captured, 

183
00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:47,640
including lines like people are 
locked out for the day, this is 

184
00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:51,560
the perfect time, don't worry 
about it, you don't do nothing. 

185
00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:57,360
It's like wow. 
Yeah exactly. 

186
00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:01,360
Also stolen 5 1/2 thousand 
username and password 

187
00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:05,360
combinations and built Python 
scripts to test them against 

188
00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:10,040
airlines and hotels and used 
stolen air miles to book himself

189
00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:14,520
a flight. 
This is they've been found as 

190
00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:17,920
Sahib was found guilty by jury 
on May the 7th. 

191
00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:22,080
Mooney pled guilty in April but 
has since filed handwritten 

192
00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:24,320
letters from gaol trying to walk
it back. 

193
00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:27,440
So they've potentially faced 
decades in prison. 

194
00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:32,840
This is where security needs to 
talk to HR to make sure that 

195
00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:35,480
this happened instantly after 
someone's been dismissed. 

196
00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:40,160
Security awareness around the 
dismissal process and the 

197
00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:44,000
leavers process needs to be 
nailed on somewhat. 

198
00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:47,360
I think like there's a perfect 
reason. 

199
00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:51,320
Send that to someone in your HR 
team and go, can we have a chat 

200
00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:54,440
about this? 
Could, could a scenario where 

201
00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:58,320
this happens occur here? 
And it's not necessarily the one

202
00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:01,840
that they were actually 
according to this, it's the 

203
00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:04,720
brother that they were 
dismissing and the other 

204
00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:08,360
brothers done the actions. 
So, you know, you need to spread

205
00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:12,360
your net a little wider. 
Husbands, wives, brothers, 

206
00:13:12,680 --> 00:13:17,680
relatives, that kind of thing. 
It's yes, the second someone's 

207
00:13:17,680 --> 00:13:21,560
fired, you need to cut that 
access immediately. 

208
00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:25,080
Yeah. 
And why background cheques not 

209
00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:30,040
been done before? 
Yeah, quite, quite bizarre, that

210
00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:32,360
one. 
I, I, I love the fact it's all 

211
00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:35,720
been caught on video. 
Like these aren't stupid people.

212
00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:39,800
These are intelligent people 
that can, you know, maintain 

213
00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:43,800
databases and steal passwords 
and write Python scripts. 

214
00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:46,040
But they forgot to press stop on
the recording. 

215
00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:51,720
Yeah. 
Yeah, or even the call go to a 

216
00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:52,920
private one. 
Yeah, yeah, we're. 

217
00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:55,240
Just hanging up. 
All I had to do was hang up. 

218
00:13:57,480 --> 00:13:58,120
That's right. 
That's great. 

219
00:13:58,560 --> 00:14:02,080
That's great, yeah. 
I'll let move on to the next one

220
00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:03,640
is brilliant. 
Go and you can have this one. 

221
00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:09,480
Go on next one, we've got some 
kids bypassing age verification 

222
00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:15,920
cheques with a fake moustache. 
So yeah, as we know, the age 

223
00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:21,560
verification systems, I guess, 
particularly the ones in the UK 

224
00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:27,400
with the Online Safety Act, are 
not very good as yeah, children 

225
00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:32,120
have been found to draw a fake 
moustache with makeup pencil and

226
00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:35,880
they were able to bypass these 
cheques and be verified as being

227
00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:38,240
old enough. 
So apparently if you have a 

228
00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:42,120
moustache, you're over 16. 
According to this, it's as. 

229
00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:49,400
Simple as that. 
So it's AUK based non profit. 

230
00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:54,520
Internet mass surveyed 1300 
children aged between 9 and 16. 

231
00:14:56,400 --> 00:15:00,960
Half of them said the age 
cheques were easy to bypass. 1/3

232
00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:02,400
said they've they've bypassed 
it. 

233
00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:08,440
So there were some methods, 
various methods drawing on a 

234
00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:12,520
moustache point in the camera, a
video game character which we 

235
00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:18,320
covered before, totally funny 
faces, simple things that you 

236
00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:21,080
seem fake birthdays or boring 
parents ID. 

237
00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:25,960
I'm sure that's not borrowed or 
or like temporarily stolen. 

238
00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:28,200
Can I borrow your driver's 
licence? 

239
00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:30,040
No, it's going to be where's 
Mom's purse? 

240
00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:37,560
And yeah, the fake moustache 
trick works across multiple 

241
00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:43,720
different platforms, yeah. 
I wish I'd have, I wish I'd have

242
00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:45,640
read this a few weeks ago 
because it was two or three 

243
00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:47,800
weeks ago. 
My son had to do the age 

244
00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:52,640
verification on Roblox and if it
comes up for any of my other 

245
00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:57,800
kids I'm going to test this. 
We've got a fake moustache 

246
00:15:57,800 --> 00:15:59,680
somewhere. 
I was looking for it for this 

247
00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:01,640
episode because I was going to 
put it on but then I realised 

248
00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:03,400
I've already got 1 so it 
wouldn't really work. 

249
00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:09,400
Yeah. 
So obviously it's not just the 

250
00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:16,120
UK in this Australia, 25 U.S. 
states also have some form of 

251
00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:19,840
age ratification in place. 
And if it's some other, some of 

252
00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:23,240
countries isn't there, not just 
not just those, but yeah, many 

253
00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:27,240
governments are rolling this out
as a requirement for social 

254
00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:31,560
media or adult content websites.
And yeah, then you sort of, they

255
00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:37,760
use these AI age estimating 
scans, which obviously aren't 

256
00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:41,960
very good or you upload your ID,
but a lot of people obviously 

257
00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:44,360
don't want to upload their their
ID to it. 

258
00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:50,120
And yeah, the idea is obviously 
to protect children from harmful

259
00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:54,040
content, but in the the reality 
is that they're bypassing these 

260
00:16:54,400 --> 00:17:00,000
fairly easily. 
So yeah, there's not much of a 

261
00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:02,600
surprise that we're talking 
about this again. 

262
00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:06,240
I remember saying it was really 
good that Roblox had done it. 

263
00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:09,000
When we spoke about Roblox two 
or three episodes ago, I 

264
00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,280
remember saying, oh, it's really
good that Roblox had done that. 

265
00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:15,440
So he gets age-related content. 
Completely naively, even me 

266
00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:19,520
having covered this before and I
was doing this every week, 

267
00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:23,800
naively, I remember thinking, 
oh, that's all right, Yeah, it's

268
00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:25,400
performative, isn't it? 
It's. 

269
00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:27,839
It's security theatre. 
It's. 

270
00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:31,000
Yeah, I and I felt they. 
Get fined but. 

271
00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:34,640
I felt victim to that as well. 
I was there thinking it'd be all

272
00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:39,160
right because they're checking 
his age, but actually he could 

273
00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:41,560
have been doing anything. 
I think previously before it was

274
00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:44,560
the game with Norman Reedus 
wasn't it? 

275
00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:46,800
Where they had his icon put in 
places. 

276
00:17:47,120 --> 00:17:49,240
Yeah, Death Stranding game. 
Yeah, Death Stranding. 

277
00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:53,080
It's so realistic, wasn't it? 
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 

278
00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:55,600
I guess after this check where 
your where your ideas. 

279
00:17:57,520 --> 00:17:59,200
Yeah, it should be right here, 
actually. 

280
00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:01,680
And just. 
No, it's here. 

281
00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:02,640
It's all right. 
I've got it. 

282
00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:04,040
Yeah. 
Yeah. 

283
00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:07,400
But yeah, that's. 
The amazing thing? 

284
00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:09,160
Let's just go back to the 
beginning of what you said 

285
00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:11,920
there. 
You said they surveyed around 

286
00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:20,000
1300 children aged 9 to 16. 
And basically the kids said 

287
00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:21,880
themselves that these are easy 
to beat. 

288
00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:25,440
Like it's a known these, these 
kids aren't stupid. 

289
00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:28,600
They've found a way round this. 
They're finding a way round 

290
00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:30,080
this. 
I mean, they're, they're the 

291
00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:33,400
share of their friends, right? 
They're not not going to keep it

292
00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:35,760
secret. 
And they're not, it'll be at 

293
00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:37,960
school going, I can't play that 
game on Roblox anymore. 

294
00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:39,560
I'm not old enough. 
And one of them will be like, 

295
00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:42,200
yeah, yeah, all you need to do 
is open up this game, you know, 

296
00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:44,440
go to open up FIFA. 
Draw a moustache. 

297
00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:48,360
Draw a moustache on or open up 
FIFA and get they'll all be 

298
00:18:48,360 --> 00:18:50,600
coming into school with their 
sister's eyeliner. 

299
00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:53,040
Like I'll bring my sister's 
eyeliner in tomorrow and then 

300
00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:55,560
they'll all be after school with
teach be like, why have you all 

301
00:18:55,560 --> 00:19:00,720
got moustache? 
Yeah, yeah, this is brilliant. 

302
00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:02,280
It's brilliant. 
Well, it's, it's brilliant. 

303
00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:06,640
And it's also it, it doesn't 
work like this is not the way. 

304
00:19:07,440 --> 00:19:08,880
Yeah. 
That's yeah. 

305
00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:12,880
It's really not great, No. 
And I wonder if it's ever going 

306
00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:14,880
to be improved. 
How? 

307
00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:18,440
How? 
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 

308
00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:20,800
Right, I'll move on to the next 
one. 

309
00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:27,880
Fake clawed code installer is 
stealing developer credentials. 

310
00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:32,800
So this is from Ontinue and it's
a blog that they've posted 

311
00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:36,160
attackers and we've covered this
before, but not for Claude 

312
00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:43,040
attackers set up fake Claude 
attackers set up fake Claude 

313
00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:47,680
code installation pages promoted
through sponsored Google search 

314
00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:52,280
results. 
The fake page looks identical to

315
00:19:52,280 --> 00:19:55,320
a legitimate Claude code 
documentation, but swaps the 

316
00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:59,960
install commands destination to 
an attacker controlled domain. 

317
00:19:59,960 --> 00:20:02,640
So we've spoken about Google Ads
before. 

318
00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:07,760
Google decided in their infinite
wisdom that ad blockers were bad

319
00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:11,120
because they were costing the 
one of the richest companies in 

320
00:20:11,120 --> 00:20:16,400
the world lots of money. 
So they blocked the ability for 

321
00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:20,960
you block origin and ad blockers
to stop working in Chrome, which

322
00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:25,560
is the most widely used browser.
And of course, now Google Ads 

323
00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:27,480
appear at the top of every 
Google search. 

324
00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:32,640
And this operation targets 
developers who search on Google 

325
00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:36,520
for install clawed code. 
And then the top results would 

326
00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:41,360
be a sponsored result. 
And it looks like a legitimate 

327
00:20:41,360 --> 00:20:43,440
clawed code page. 
We've covered this numerous 

328
00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:46,640
times. 
You found one that was a 

329
00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:49,720
compromised Google Ads account 
for Sydney Zoo. 

330
00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:52,960
You found another one for, AH 
Refs. 

331
00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:56,080
You know this, this happens so 
frequently. 

332
00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:59,720
We found them live on air whilst
recording this. 

333
00:20:59,880 --> 00:21:02,480
That's how easy they are to come
across. 

334
00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:06,800
And you can't unless you look at
the domain or you look at the 

335
00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:09,560
download domain. 
You can't tell that easily, 

336
00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:12,280
especially when you kind of 
trust Google. 

337
00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:16,400
So this, this one's quite 
interesting. 

338
00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:21,600
It renders an altered one line 
installation command in HTML 

339
00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:26,600
that looks identical to the one 
from Anthropic, but sends you to

340
00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:33,640
events.msft.msft23.com instead. 
The payload doesn't match any 

341
00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:37,200
known malware family, it's been 
compared to a number of 

342
00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:39,400
different ones, and there's no 
technical match, which means 

343
00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:42,440
this is either new or privately 
maintained. 

344
00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:47,680
And the malware cheques your 
Windows region settings and a 

345
00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:49,320
ports installation if you're in 
Russia. 

346
00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:53,160
Should we just all get AVPN to 
say we're in Russia? 

347
00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:56,360
Would that solve? 
Should we all just tell our 

348
00:21:56,360 --> 00:21:58,280
systems? 
Yeah, we're sat in Moscow? 

349
00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:02,120
This isn't, again, I would not 
just Russia, Russia, Iran or CIS

350
00:22:02,120 --> 00:22:04,080
countries. 
This isn't the first time again,

351
00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:08,720
that malware won't run if you're
based in one of those countries.

352
00:22:11,120 --> 00:22:17,120
And this is fresh this year. 
The date the the compiled date 

353
00:22:17,120 --> 00:22:23,160
on the helper places it within 
60 days of Chrome 144, meaning 

354
00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:28,360
whoever built this is tracking 
upstream Chromium changes and 

355
00:22:28,360 --> 00:22:31,360
updating the tooling to match. 
So this is just this is being 

356
00:22:31,360 --> 00:22:34,920
maintained and being updated. 
So updating Google Chrome 

357
00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:36,800
doesn't fix this issue. 
It's still coming. 

358
00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:41,240
You cannot trust sponsored links
on Google. 

359
00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:45,160
Full stop Google. 
Like we've said about Meta 

360
00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:48,520
selling advertising to anyone, 
Google should do better. 

361
00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:53,360
They could do better. 
How difficult is it to like it 

362
00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:56,640
it there's ways they could do 
this, but they generate too much

363
00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:59,680
money. 
So and if you're a developer, 

364
00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:03,160
think about the access that a 
dodgy cloud code. 

365
00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:06,680
It's got the keys to your 
Kingdom, literally the keys to 

366
00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:08,560
your Kingdom that you're going 
to put in it. 

367
00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:13,320
It's be really, really careful. 
Go straight to the domain. 

368
00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:15,320
Don't Google it. 
Cloud dot AI, 

369
00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:18,960
claude.aianthropic.com something
like that. 

370
00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:21,040
Just go there. 
Yeah. 

371
00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:25,760
Yeah. 
Anyway, that's, that's yeah, 

372
00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:29,120
that's my rant over on that one.
If you're in a business, have a 

373
00:23:29,120 --> 00:23:32,880
safe, why not have we used to 
have I built, when I worked on 

374
00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:38,120
help desk 1215 years ago, a 
shortcuts page in a Google site 

375
00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:41,120
that all the frequently visited 
links. 

376
00:23:41,120 --> 00:23:43,720
And this was before I really had
a security hat on. 

377
00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:46,680
This was just convenience. 
All the regular links that we 

378
00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:49,920
had to visit as a team on help 
desk, I put them all on a single

379
00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:51,920
page. 
So rather than searching through

380
00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:54,880
your bookmarks, I mean bookmarks
we spoke about a couple of weeks

381
00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:58,160
ago, but I had a shortcut page. 
Businesses should have sites 

382
00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:00,680
that link to trusted download 
destinations. 

383
00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:04,680
And as an individual, bookmarks 
use bookmarks. 

384
00:24:05,120 --> 00:24:07,040
We're bringing bookmarks back. 
Come on. 

385
00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:11,320
Yeah, yes. 
Let me know how I am. 

386
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:15,680
Maybe like a software repository
that's maintained by all that 

387
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:17,640
someone as well is the another 
option. 

388
00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:20,280
That would be the more mature 
option than a, than a 

389
00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:22,440
destination for the download 
page of bookmarks. 

390
00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:26,480
Yeah, I think that's it on that 
one. 

391
00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:30,600
It's yeah, Google ads, man. 
Just stay away from the 

392
00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:33,360
sponsored links. 
Yeah, yeah, it's a good one 

393
00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:35,480
maybe. 
What's the next one? 

394
00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:42,920
Yeah, so this one, Google have 
confirmed that hackers have used

395
00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,960
AI to find a zero day for the 
first time. 

396
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:52,920
So this is a it's a blog post on
their Google threat Intelligence

397
00:24:53,120 --> 00:24:55,800
group. 
But they still sort of said that

398
00:24:56,760 --> 00:25:02,880
a cybercrime group has used AI 
to discover a previously unknown

399
00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:06,120
vulnerability in an open source 
system administration tool and 

400
00:25:06,120 --> 00:25:10,960
built an exploit for it to 
deserve. 

401
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:15,120
There's a report the details how
this has sort of been done. 

402
00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:22,920
And yeah, they're basically 
found some some stuff in this 

403
00:25:24,360 --> 00:25:28,040
zero days sort of exploits code 
that proves that AI was heavily 

404
00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:33,200
involved in it. 
And they plan to to to use the 

405
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:40,040
exploit for financial gain. 
So you had this Google threat 

406
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:45,320
intelligence group alerted the 
offender to imminent threat and 

407
00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:48,680
they, and I think that's before,
yeah, before the cyber crime 

408
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:53,240
crime group initiated a mass, 
mass exploitation campaign. 

409
00:25:56,040 --> 00:26:00,280
But obviously some probably not 
the first time that attackers 

410
00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:03,640
have used AI, but it's the first
time that Google have found 

411
00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:07,800
evidence that it's been used in 
the sort of in the world. 

412
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:12,560
I was going to add a that we 
know of caveat to that because I

413
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,640
feel very much like really are 
we sure? 

414
00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:18,600
So this is probably that we know
of that we can identify. 

415
00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:26,080
Yeah, been no surprise that they
declined to identify what the 

416
00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:31,200
vulnerability was, I guess 
whether or not I had been 

417
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:35,720
patched or name it. 
But it's a popular open source 

418
00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:40,160
web-based administration tool. 
I'm not too sure that what, what

419
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:42,080
it could be, but we've been sure
you could Google it and find 

420
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:46,400
out. 
But yeah, basically there was a,

421
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:52,560
a Python script that allowed 
attackers to bypass 2 factor 

422
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:58,160
authentication for the service. 
And yeah, it says that the, 

423
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:04,280
yeah, they've, they've sort of 
confirmed that AI was used 

424
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:09,480
within it. 
Ham it doesn't say much more. 

425
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,440
I mean, they they said that 
Google are confident it wasn't 

426
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,720
Gemini or or Anthropic Smithos, 
which I guess was big one 

427
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:19,600
potential thing we spoke about 
last episode of Mythos being 

428
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:23,520
used in that way. 
But obviously, as we mentioned 

429
00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:26,760
as well, there's something AI 
tools out there and various 

430
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:31,600
other companies or or countries 
are developing similar things. 

431
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:35,520
Just the last episode, Mythos 
CEO basically said we've got 6 

432
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:38,880
to 12 months till China and 
other people catch up. 

433
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:43,640
So it's, yeah, maybe that was 
overly optimistic. 

434
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:47,640
Yeah. 
So basically he says within 

435
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:53,880
within this article that there 
were various artefacts in the 

436
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,280
explicit code that were 
inconsistent with human 

437
00:27:56,280 --> 00:28:01,040
developers. 
So it included documentation 

438
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:05,760
strings in Python, highly 
annotated code and hallucinated 

439
00:28:06,360 --> 00:28:11,880
a non existent CVSS score. 
So yeah, maybe they potentially 

440
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:14,840
could have cleaned up the code a
bit to disguise that, but maybe 

441
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:18,400
they weren't sort of had the 
knowledge to to do that, right. 

442
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:20,480
So they use AI to to create 
that. 

443
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,480
Yeah. 
But yeah, obviously this is 

444
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,920
probably not the probably not 
the first time, and it 

445
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:29,240
definitely won't be the last 
time. 

446
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:33,680
I love the fact that even that 
it worked even though it had 

447
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:38,280
like hallucinogenic contents. 
Yeah. 

448
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:41,960
Like why clean it up if it just 
works like? 

449
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:49,840
There's no need to, that's true.
Yeah, there's there's much more 

450
00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:52,480
on this one. 
I mean, obviously something to 

451
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:56,040
be thinking about. 
I guess with AII mean obviously 

452
00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:59,960
cyber criminals using AIA lot 
whether it's in phishing emails 

453
00:28:59,960 --> 00:29:08,240
or obviously creating 0 days. 
But yeah, I guess I guess the 

454
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:13,000
cow to these sort of things are 
potentially obviously depends on

455
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:18,600
the companies providing updates 
for software or you'd hope 

456
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:22,640
there'd be a bit more 
information on what's what to 

457
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:26,160
look out for. 
But I think this, there's a, 

458
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,760
there's a blog post about it 
all, but I don't think it really

459
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:32,760
covers much. 
They're quite secretary, it 

460
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:36,800
seems a lot what it was. 
It's they're probably trying to 

461
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:42,960
be extra protective, which at 
the same time is frustrating. 

462
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:48,160
But yeah, I mean, we can, we can
drop this blog post to the news 

463
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:49,000
now. 
Yeah. 

464
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:52,840
Funeral wants to read. 
And of course, the newsletter is

465
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:57,080
available at riskycreative.com 
or you can find it on LinkedIn 

466
00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:59,560
at the Awareness Angle 
newsletter. 

467
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:01,120
You can search LinkedIn for 
that. 

468
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:05,040
It comes out every Monday and 
contains links and details of 

469
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:06,960
everything we discuss on every 
episode. 

470
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:11,640
So yeah, link to that and all 
the other stories will be in the

471
00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:14,480
newsletter, which is out every 
Monday morning along with every 

472
00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:17,000
episode. 
Cool. 

473
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:19,920
Shall move on to the next one. 
Yeah, go for the next one. 

474
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:25,320
So we're back on Claude. 
Claude AI recovers Stoner's 

475
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:29,680
$400,000 Bitcoin after an 11 
year search. 

476
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:34,840
I love this this is this is 
again like a script for a movie.

477
00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:40,560
Dude, where's my Bitcoin? 
A man bought 5 Bitcoin in 2015 

478
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:45,240
at a Starbucks for around 
$12150. 

479
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:50,040
Change the password while high 
and then completely forgot about

480
00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:51,880
it. 
And just to be clear, Claude 

481
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:57,640
didn't crack Bitcoin encryption.
OK, let's just calm down in if I

482
00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:00,240
share this on the socials, just 
clarify that in the comments. 

483
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:03,240
Claude didn't crack Bitcoin 
encryption. 

484
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:04,840
It didn't break any 
cryptography. 

485
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:09,480
What it did was sort through his
messy archive of old files. 

486
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:13,520
Find a forgotten backup wallet 
that still worked with the old 

487
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:16,800
credentials and spotted a 
configuration error in the 

488
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:20,040
recovery tool that had been 
blocking his progress for years.

489
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:24,600
This is like more digital 
forensic assistant than master 

490
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:28,720
hacker. 
But this is brilliant because 

491
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:32,720
it's, I mean, it just shows you 
what AI is really, really good 

492
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:37,040
at, pattern matching and 
disorganised data sets that you 

493
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:39,640
know would have taken him months
to sift through. 

494
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:45,560
To the other extreme, people 
uploading sensitive files, 

495
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:47,880
private keys in the wallet to AI
models. 

496
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:53,800
You don't want to be uploading 
your Bitcoin stuff to AI in case

497
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:57,520
it spits it out to someone else.
Yeah, especially if you haven't 

498
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:02,160
configured any security sort of 
settings of that was called a 

499
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:05,760
cloud bot being misconfigured or
not protected in certain ways, 

500
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:09,240
but. 
He spent eleven years trying to 

501
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:14,920
recover this, including brute 
forcing it with 3.5 trillion 

502
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:22,880
password combinations on rented 
GPU time, and then he found an 

503
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:27,960
old mnemonic seed phrase in a 
college notebook and he dumped 

504
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:31,600
the whole of his old college 
computer into Claude as a last 

505
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:34,640
resort. 
Then that found the old backup 

506
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:38,120
file from 2019 that predated the
password change when he was 

507
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:41,440
stoned and the mnemonic phrase 
was able to decrypt it. 

508
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:47,040
I sent the password. 
Turned out to be LOL 420. 

509
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:52,040
The police. 
That's the most stoned. 

510
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:54,720
The most stoned password ever, I
think. 

511
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:57,360
Yeah. 
So were you stoned when you set 

512
00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:01,400
that password? 
So yeah, he's now worth what was

513
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:06,720
$12150 is now 400,000 lbs. 
So thanks to Claude, he's 

514
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:08,640
probably bought a house. 
So that's amazing. 

515
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:11,400
Like I'd be very happy with 
that. 

516
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:13,520
It's not a bad return on 
investment. 

517
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:20,200
Yeah, I think there's a key. 
Let's lol. 420 F the police, 

518
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:24,600
whilst a very strong password 
and does meet many a password 

519
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:27,040
criteria because it did have an 
exclamation mark on the end of 

520
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:32,280
it and quite memorable. 
Clearly not memorable enough for

521
00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:35,960
this individual. 
So password management is 

522
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:40,200
something to be thought about. 
And don't go uploading all your 

523
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:44,600
contents of your whole computer 
to Claude just in case. 

524
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:46,720
It's probably worth a gamble at 
this. 

525
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:51,000
I probably I might have done the
same, I don't know, but just be 

526
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:52,600
prepared for it to be shared 
widely. 

527
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:57,440
Yeah. 
Right. 

528
00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:00,320
I think that's that on that one.
So do you want to move on to the

529
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:04,640
next one? 
Yeah, so next one you've got. 

530
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:12,280
So anyone who who knows your 
Audi's VIN number can add your 

531
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:16,679
car to their account. 
According to this to a security 

532
00:34:16,679 --> 00:34:21,560
researcher has found that anyone
can add any Audi to their My 

533
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:23,880
Audi account just by knowing the
vehicle's VIN number. 

534
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,719
And yeah, obviously a a VIN 
number can be visible through 

535
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:33,480
the windshield of revved car. 
Yeah, it's printed on various 

536
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:37,520
documentations, service and 
records. 

537
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:41,760
Screen on the windscreen, it's 
that little like it's in that if

538
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:43,760
you look on the edge of your 
windscreen where it's all black,

539
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:46,400
it tends to be like shallowed 
out because it needs to be 

540
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:48,520
visible. 
On both my cars it's visible. 

541
00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:55,960
Yeah, but basically they were 
able to add any vehicle as a as 

542
00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:58,880
a guest user providing limited 
access. 

543
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:05,000
But the the researcher found API
issues worth reporting. 

544
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:07,240
Yeah, doesn't say that they 
responsibly disclosed the 

545
00:35:07,240 --> 00:35:13,800
findings to VW Group and car IAD
which is VW software subsidiary.

546
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:17,960
This is after initial 
engagement. 

547
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:22,400
VW Group stopped responding 
entirely, including two requests

548
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:24,680
of for any form of recognition 
for the research. 

549
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:29,240
The researcher is an Audi owner 
himself and says he's genuinely,

550
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:33,320
genuinely concerned about the 
vehicles association logic. 

551
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:38,600
But basically, yeah, they 
started digging into the My Audi

552
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:42,720
app after his app started 
cutting out for days at a time 

553
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,080
and the Audi support went 
nowhere. 

554
00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:52,320
They used community projects as 
a sign point to understand the 

555
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:56,000
authentication flow. 
He went sort of deeper into 

556
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,560
looking into the API structure 
and found that the vehicle 

557
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:02,840
association model treats Vins as
if they're a secret. 

558
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:07,560
But basically I was able to you,
you're able to create an account

559
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:12,480
on my Audi portal or or other VW
brand portals and add a vehicle 

560
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:22,280
just by entering the VIN number.
Yeah, it's doesn't say much 

561
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:23,440
more. 
We obviously had tried to 

562
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:26,920
communicate, the issue didn't 
and this the conversation just 

563
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:31,480
stopped with VW group. 
Do you know, this isn't the 

564
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:34,800
first? 
I thought this sounded familiar.

565
00:36:35,240 --> 00:36:38,960
We're on episode 88 now. 
We spoke about vulnerabilities 

566
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:43,120
in Volkswagen's In Car 
Entertainment on episode 5, 

567
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:46,400
right? 
So go back to like over 12 

568
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:52,960
months ago, Episode 5 would have
been what, December 2024, 

569
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:57,560
something like that. 
Yeah, this isn't And it, there's

570
00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:00,200
probably, it's just like any 
software, right? 

571
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:01,520
There's going to be 
vulnerabilities. 

572
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:05,360
But I, I can't remember exactly.
I can't find. 

573
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:09,000
We didn't keep very good episode
notes back then. 

574
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:13,880
So I was searching for our 
topics doc, but we didn't create

575
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:18,720
one back then so I can't find 
it, but I don't think we thought

576
00:37:18,720 --> 00:37:20,080
we'd still be going at this 
point. 

577
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:26,400
So yeah, all I can find is a 
thumbnail and the thumbnail for 

578
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:29,960
that episode said voice cloning 
risks, AI scams, Volkswagen 

579
00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:32,040
vulnerabilities, and meta 
breach. 

580
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:36,000
So. 
Yeah, there's a few things I 

581
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:40,480
guess from this sort of his, his
research, right. 

582
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:44,040
So obviously our VIN numbers 
aren't secrets and they're 

583
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:47,920
pretty much public information. 
As we all mentioned, you can 

584
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:51,360
actually go up to any car and 
just get the VIN number for the 

585
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:57,400
windshield and potentially 
associate with your accountant 

586
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:02,880
potentially do certain things or
or at least view some data and 

587
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:05,720
you might be able to view some 
information on the vehicle. 

588
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:11,200
Doesn't doesn't seem to same. 
I haven't properly looked to the

589
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:13,800
article itself, but I'm not sure
exactly what the limited access 

590
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:18,440
was, but I guess it's the fact 
that you can connect or sign 

591
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:21,280
into your account is it's not 
great in the first place. 

592
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:28,120
And yeah, it's like we spoke 
about if like Internet of Things

593
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:31,640
and vulnerabilities there. 
We've spoken about car 

594
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:34,080
vulnerabilities, like you said 
of quite a while ago. 

595
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:39,120
And there was one of those 
events, wasn't one of the big 

596
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:42,560
hacking events that they found 
like a vulnerability in a car or

597
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:44,080
it was in this this sun leaf or 
something? 

598
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:48,960
Yeah, years ago, I remember 
years ago, yeah, years and years

599
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:53,800
ago they were able to take 
control of a Mitsubishi FEV PHEV

600
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:58,320
that was again at DEFCON or 
something. 

601
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:01,520
Yeah, I remember an old 
colleague of ours, Piotr, 

602
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:04,400
telling us about one of the 
vulnerabilities they did at 

603
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:06,240
DEFCON. 
So yeah. 

604
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:11,160
But yeah, obviously again, 
again, I don't know what access 

605
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:16,400
was available, but with a 
smartphone connected car and 

606
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:19,280
app, you can sort of you can see
the car's location if you're 

607
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:22,640
like properly authenticated, you
can see the the range, it has 

608
00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:25,120
the mileage and various other 
things. 

609
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:28,360
You can even unlock some some 
vehicles for the app and stuff. 

610
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:32,880
That's there's privacy issues 
with this, like if, if you, if 

611
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:38,160
you husband and wife have split 
up, you know, stalker, whatever.

612
00:39:38,240 --> 00:39:41,320
You know, if, if, if it's 
possible to find out the 

613
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:44,360
location of someone's vehicle 
and track that location. 

614
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:46,480
That's got all kinds of 
consequences. 

615
00:39:48,240 --> 00:39:51,680
Yeah, it's the fact that 
Volkswagen Group have gone quiet

616
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:54,360
on that is a bit worrying. 
Yeah. 

617
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:57,800
I mean, obviously with this one 
with not, not saying that that 

618
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:00,320
is possible, but I guess it no, 
it could be possible, right, 

619
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:04,400
Maybe not with this 
vulnerability, but other, other 

620
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:07,360
vehicles over time. 
But yeah. 

621
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:10,480
It's obviously I'm not great 
that they've not responded 

622
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:14,560
either, so they don't want to. 
They don't want to pay a bug 

623
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:18,200
bounty, so they're just quietly.
Yeah, I guess until, yeah, until

624
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:23,960
someone breaks, breaks even more
and becomes a big problem for 

625
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:24,880
them. 
They maybe they will. 

626
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:27,840
But yeah, yeah, I think that's 
it. 

627
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:30,560
OK. 
In which case, I think that's it

628
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:33,480
for this week's news. 
Oh yeah. 

629
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:40,560
Let's do security socials. 
So this one this week is 

630
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:45,040
something I saw on LinkedIn from
Amy Stokes Waters. 

631
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:50,400
Amy is of course CEO at the 
Cyber Escape Room Co and she 

632
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:54,520
posted just a day ago. 
Unbelievable. 

633
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:57,000
Scammers have gone back to 
writing letters now apparently 

634
00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:00,360
because my dad got through this.
Got this through the post today.

635
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:06,800
WTF and we spoke about this. 
We had this before. 

636
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:09,840
I can't remember who shared it, 
but we've definitely shared a 

637
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:14,200
letter on here before. 
Hello Waters surname. 

638
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:17,280
I respectfully request your kind
indulgence in reading this 

639
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:20,760
letter in its entirety. 
While I understand this may not 

640
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:23,920
be the conventional approach to 
establishing trust, I hope you 

641
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:26,800
will appreciate the urgency and 
sincerity of my reaching out. 

642
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:31,280
My name is Mr Kenji Tahara and 
I'm an official with the Hatchi 

643
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:34,240
Juni Nagano Bank. 
I've made several attempts to 

644
00:41:34,240 --> 00:41:37,400
contact you without success. 
I obtained your contact 

645
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:40,280
information through public 
records in the UK. 

646
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:44,920
I'm writing regarding my 
deceased client, Engineer Smith 

647
00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:47,520
Waters, an oil industry 
entrepreneur who resided in Hong

648
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:50,680
Kong for 21 years. 
He and his immediate family 

649
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:54,160
passed away in the onset of the 
Russia Ukraine conflict. 

650
00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:59,640
Before his passing, Mr Waters 
deposited the sum of 606. 

651
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:05,000
So hang on $60,500,000. 
Wow. 

652
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:07,360
Under the management of our 
bank. 

653
00:42:08,240 --> 00:42:12,000
So yeah, here we go. 
This is very, very similar to 

654
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:15,040
the one we had before. 
Different region obviously 

655
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:20,280
mentions the Ukraine, Russia, 
which the other one didn't. 

656
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:23,560
The other one was more E, more, 
more W than that. 

657
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:28,520
And then yeah, I have worked out
all modalities to complete the 

658
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:30,560
transaction without mincing 
words. 

659
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:35,160
I assure you that the operation 
is 100% legal and risk risk free

660
00:42:35,240 --> 00:42:39,560
if and only if you adhere 
strictly to my instructions. 

661
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:42,880
As soon as the estate is 
released to you, we shall share 

662
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:46,800
the ratio of 50% for me, which 
will go towards helping refugees

663
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:51,800
from Ukraine war through various
NGOs around Europe, 45% for you,

664
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:56,200
while the remaining 5% will set 
aside for expenses incurred, 

665
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:59,840
incurred during and cause of 
securing this deposit. 

666
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:02,920
The expenses. 
That's a lot of money for 

667
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:05,400
expenses. 
What's 5% of 60 million? 

668
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:08,760
Wow. 
If my proposal is acceptable, 

669
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:11,600
kindly reply to my private 
e-mail address. 

670
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:15,360
Mr Kenji Tahara. 
That's incredible. 

671
00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:19,240
I think that's brilliant. 
I mean, obviously it's so fake, 

672
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:22,920
but Oh my God, it's $60 million 
and that all the. 

673
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:27,000
There's more to that letter. 
I'll put a picture of that in 

674
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:28,240
the newsletter. 
It's brilliant. 

675
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:32,680
Yeah. 
And that's just arrived. 

676
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:41,040
Just boom 3 letterbox. 
Yeah, it's the new lots of the 

677
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:46,120
Nigerian Prince scam type thing.
Yeah, but it's very bizarre. 

678
00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:49,960
Perfect. 
I presume AI Brian potentially? 

679
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:54,880
I love though, like I assure you
that the operation is 100% legal

680
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:59,480
and risk free if and only if you
would hear strictly to my 

681
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:02,640
instructions. 
So cool, so cool. 

682
00:44:03,720 --> 00:44:06,760
Yeah, that was the first one 
which I thought was brilliant. 

683
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:10,120
You know, that's what a great 
story to tell the people in your

684
00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:14,320
organisation though, because 
it's different. 

685
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:18,960
It's it it kind of the old ways 
still work in the age of AI. 

686
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:23,080
People are still doing stuff in 
the more traditional, old tried 

687
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:27,640
and trusted way. 
So the next one I wanted to 

688
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:32,080
share to you came from a friend 
of mine, Liam Stock Rabat in 

689
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:33,320
Canada. 
Hello, Liam. 

690
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:37,640
He sent me this video last week.
I forgot to include this last 

691
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:43,080
week, so I'll include it this 
week and it's called annual 

692
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:46,120
corporate training. 
Be like this is from TikTok. 

693
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:49,560
OK, I think it's fairly I if 
you're listening on the podcast 

694
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:52,880
platforms, I think you probably 
get the picture. 

695
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:56,480
It's a man sat in front of a 
computer and we're looking at 

696
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:58,040
the man from the bottom of his 
keyboard. 

697
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:03,120
This module will take 45 minutes
to complete that one and we will

698
00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:04,760
test you on your knowledge at 
the end. 

699
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:07,640
Harassment. 
Click, click, click. 

700
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:11,040
Let's click so let's So what 
would let's take a look have a 

701
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:13,080
thing about don't forget it is 
the response. 

702
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:16,840
Here's a list so to some harass 
you might be in the workplace. 

703
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:19,040
There are always these are the 
key. 

704
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:23,720
Well, I he he your employee 
breaks punch dinner bullying 

705
00:45:23,720 --> 00:45:25,520
harass. 
You've reached the end of the 

706
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:27,200
module. 
We will now do a test. 

707
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:30,160
Samantha walks in on Billy in 
the lunchroom. 

708
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:34,000
Samantha says to Billy, get out 
of my way, you fat, disgusting 

709
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:36,600
idiot. 
Is this acceptable workplace 

710
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:40,840
behaviour? 
Congratulations, you scored 100%

711
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:42,600
on the test. 
The module is now. 

712
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:46,480
Complete and and if ever you 
needed an argument against like 

713
00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:49,920
click and next training, that's 
it. 

714
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:51,840
I mean he's click, click, click,
click, click, click, click, 

715
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:52,880
click, click, click, click, 
click. 

716
00:45:53,520 --> 00:45:55,920
I used to find it really 
interesting when we did livid 

717
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:58,400
training. 
If you look at the time to 

718
00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:01,760
complete training and you can, 
when you look at the time it's 

719
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:04,040
taken someone to complete 
training, you can tell who's 

720
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:07,520
done that. 
But also the question at the 

721
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:09,440
end, Oh, we've got to have a 
question at the end. 

722
00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:12,560
You've got, you've got to check 
that they've watched the video. 

723
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:16,080
Quick put question at the end, 
but the question's so simple 

724
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:18,520
that you don't have to have 
watched the video or the to the 

725
00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:24,360
other extreme like compliance 
teams go in the video, it stated

726
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:27,680
how much the fine was for the 
ICO, blah, blah, blah. 

727
00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:30,880
How much was that fine? 
It's I don't remember out of 

728
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:33,800
that video. 
You expect me to remember a A6 

729
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:38,760
figure number or A7 figure 
number like Yeah, everything 

730
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:43,440
that's wrong with. 
Me send with that, Yeah, no, 

731
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:45,720
that's good at all. 
The link to that as well will be

732
00:46:45,720 --> 00:46:47,120
in the newsletter. 
If you're listening and you 

733
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:50,080
really want to see it to get the
full picture, then get the 

734
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:53,480
newsletter, Risky creative.com 
or the Awareness Ankle 

735
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:58,840
newsletter on LinkedIn, right? 
Have you? 

736
00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:04,360
Did you have anything this week?
Yeah, I have on video to share. 

737
00:47:06,240 --> 00:47:12,200
So this is a videos on TikTok. 
Jamie's finance is the is the 

738
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:17,200
guy. 
I haven't fully researched to 

739
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:21,680
see if this is 100 and true, but
I think it overall is in a way. 

740
00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:25,400
But I thought it was interesting
to sort of bring it to others 

741
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:26,960
play. 
It's not too long, I don't 

742
00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:30,960
think. 
With NatWest RBS or Ulster Bank,

743
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:34,880
there is a significant data risk
that you should be aware of. 

744
00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:37,880
So let's talk about biometric 
data. 

745
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:42,240
So for instance, the Face ID on 
your Apple iPhone or your 

746
00:47:42,240 --> 00:47:44,880
biometric fingerprint on any 
other phone. 

747
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:48,640
So typically that is secure. 
So what that means is, for 

748
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:52,240
instance, Apple's Face ID that 
will only ever be stored on that

749
00:47:52,240 --> 00:47:55,680
device, never uploaded to the 
cloud, which is why if you ever 

750
00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:57,920
get a new phone, you'll notice 
you'll have to set up that 

751
00:47:57,920 --> 00:47:59,760
again. 
Even if you transfer all your 

752
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:03,160
data across because it's never 
even transferred from device to 

753
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:05,680
device because that's your 
biometric secure data. 

754
00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:07,520
And that's back onto the wrong 
hands. 

755
00:48:07,720 --> 00:48:09,280
That would be seriously 
detrimental. 

756
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:12,240
If you lose your password, well,
you can just make a new 

757
00:48:12,240 --> 00:48:15,040
password. 
But if somebody gets access to 

758
00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:18,000
your face, well, you can't 
really change your face. 

759
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:21,240
And that's the same with your 
fingerprint or your voice. 

760
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:24,200
So let's approach. 
How has NatWest done it? 

761
00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:28,440
So many banks in the UK will 
integrate Apple's Face ID or any

762
00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:31,640
other biometric system that any 
other phone has, but NatWest 

763
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:34,960
decided to do it themselves and 
they use it on the cloud. 

764
00:48:35,240 --> 00:48:39,520
So your biometric data is stored
on the cloud with Amazon Web 

765
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:41,760
Services. 
This is not a good look. 

766
00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:45,240
Let's say they got hacked and 
your biometric data was leaked. 

767
00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:47,880
Well that would be seriously 
detrimental for you. 

768
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:52,360
Well, at least for now you can 
consent to this after the 20th 

769
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:54,600
of May. 
They are changing it in a very 

770
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:59,960
small and very interestingly 
hidden positive change. 

771
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:04,280
They are changing the way that 
they process that data from 

772
00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:08,400
consent to legitimate interest. 
They no longer need to ask you 

773
00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:12,440
for consent to use that data. 
That is highly alarming and I 

774
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:15,840
would remove your biometric data
from that W RBS or Ulster Bank 

775
00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:23,680
immediately. 
It's interesting because I'm 

776
00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:25,520
just looking at some of the 
comments there as well. 

777
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:28,120
The top comment that sounds like
BS. 

778
00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:30,640
The biometric data doesn't leave
my phone if I log into the app 

779
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:34,600
using face Idi think that's 
true, but then there's another 

780
00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:38,000
comment further down that says 
you can log into the app using 

781
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:40,760
Face ID, which is fine. 
That's not what this is about. 

782
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:44,600
There's a separate process for 
asking for biometric data for 

783
00:49:44,600 --> 00:49:49,440
large payments, which is data 
they store, and it's what this 

784
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:52,400
video is. 
Now I know I've got a NatWest 

785
00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:55,480
account. 
I'm pretty sure it's the NatWest

786
00:49:55,480 --> 00:49:58,640
accounts currently. 
Actually, I don't use Face ID to

787
00:49:58,640 --> 00:50:01,640
sign into my NatWest account. 
I use a six digit PIN, which 

788
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:05,120
which is quite interesting. 
The Face ID fell off the app. 

789
00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:07,640
The app updated and I needed to 
set it up again or something and

790
00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:12,000
I didn't. 
I'm sure it's NatWest that you 

791
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:17,240
have to put your face in a 
picture, like you have to show 

792
00:50:17,240 --> 00:50:18,640
it. 
There's a ring that appears on 

793
00:50:18,640 --> 00:50:21,560
the screen and you have to get 
your phone just right and then 

794
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:24,160
it scans your face that way. 
I wonder if it's this that 

795
00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:28,920
they're talking about. 
Yeah, sounds like it. 

796
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:32,400
There's a few old comments as 
well. 

797
00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:38,680
There's one here I think of 
someone saying oh you don't 

798
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:42,160
understand how it's stored the 
and then someone believe it. 

799
00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:44,880
He replied saying obviously a 
cloud based data will never be 

800
00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:47,960
as private or protected as 
locally stored and there's no 

801
00:50:47,960 --> 00:50:52,000
reason to hold this data online.
And then someone says I'm a 

802
00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:54,680
cyber engineer here at a large 
UK bank. 

803
00:50:54,720 --> 00:50:57,280
This data is stored on Prem so 
nothing leaves the bank's 

804
00:50:57,280 --> 00:51:01,080
infrastructure. 
And I mean maybe, but that 

805
00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:03,800
doesn't particularly mean it's 
100% secure. 

806
00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:06,400
It doesn't. 
But also Crip Zones talking from

807
00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:08,480
their own experience. 
Well, yeah. 

808
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:13,320
Not having worked at three large
retailers over the past three or

809
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:15,000
four years, every single one's 
different. 

810
00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:18,640
Every infrastructure, the way 
every business does it, is 

811
00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:20,720
unique. 
Yeah. 

812
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:26,080
But I want to have a have a look
at if you're a customer of one 

813
00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:30,240
of these banks. 
Yeah, yeah, interesting. 

814
00:51:30,760 --> 00:51:35,240
I just just lastly something I 
forgot to add, but I thought 

815
00:51:35,240 --> 00:51:40,080
just as a little fun closer this
week, I saw an article on the 

816
00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:44,600
BBC Waymo, the self driving 
cars, right? 

817
00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:48,000
They're recalling thousands of 
their self driving cars in the 

818
00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:54,200
US because software issues could
allow them to drive into flooded

819
00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:57,480
roads. 
And I, I haven't got the video 

820
00:51:57,480 --> 00:52:00,640
here, but I'd seen a video of a 
Waymo car that's tried to drive 

821
00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:04,480
into a flood and then kind of 
kind of avoided it. 

822
00:52:04,720 --> 00:52:10,680
So yeah, the voluntary recall 
effects 3800 robo taxis using 

823
00:52:10,680 --> 00:52:13,480
the company's 5th and 6th 
generation driving systems. 

824
00:52:14,240 --> 00:52:18,760
And on the 20th of April in 
Texas, an empty Waymo vehicle 

825
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:23,080
emptied, entered a flooded road 
and was swept into a Creek. 

826
00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:26,960
Oh well. 
Self driving cars might not be 

827
00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:31,720
quite there yet, but yeah, yeah,
right. 

828
00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:33,240
I think that's it for this week 
then. 

829
00:52:33,720 --> 00:52:36,200
That's a snappier episode than 
normal, but that's all good, 

830
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:42,040
right? 
Yeah, thank you very much. 

831
00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:44,320
And let's do it all again next 
week. 

832
00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:48,080
Cool, awesome, right? 
See you later. 

833
00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:49,280
See you. 
Bye.

