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153 Million Driver’s Licenses for Sale: Why Identity Verification Is Broken
Episode 578
A reported dark-web service offering more than 153 million U.S. and Canadian driver’s-license scans for sale has brought the hidden cost of identity …
5 hours ago
Is Hotel WiFi Safe?
Episode 577
Hotel Wi‑Fi is not automatically unsafe, but it is never a network you should blindly trust. Tom Eston and Scott Wright break down Microsoft’s Captiv…
1 week ago
Could a Pattern on Your Clothing Fool Facial Recognition? Interview with Bill Swearingen
Episode 576
Can a pattern on your clothing change what a camera thinks it sees? Tom talks with Black Hat USA 2026 speaker Bill Swearingen about adversarial cloth…
2 weeks ago
What Happens to Your Digital Life When You Die?
Episode 575
Scott Wright joins Shared Security to discuss his Digital Legacy Tree framework and upcoming book, The Digital Legacy Tree. We talk about what happen…
3 weeks ago
Flock Cameras Exposed: Traffic Tickets, ALPRs, and Vehicle Surveillance
Episode 574
Flock cameras and automated license plate readers are often sold as tools for finding stolen cars, wanted suspects, missing people, and serious threa…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
GrapheneOS Phone Wipe Case: When Privacy Tools Become Evidence
Episode 573
A federal case involving a GrapheneOS phone wipe during an airport search raises a bigger question for privacy-minded users: can using strong mobile …
1 month ago
OpenAI Says Its AI Hacked Another Company on Its Own
Episode 572
OpenAI disclosed an unusual AI security incident involving a frontier model evaluation and Hugging Face, but the episode cuts through the hype: was t…
1 month, 1 week ago
Your Monitor Can Install Adware Now?
Episode 571
You plug in a new monitor. Windows detects the hardware, pulls down a vendor companion app, and the first thing you see is… a McAfee ad. That’s the s…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Surveillance Pricing: When Your Data Sets the Price
Episode 570
This week on Shared Security, Tom and Scott dig into surveillance pricing: the use of personal data, behavioral profiles, shopping history, location …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Signal Phishing and Russian Intelligence Targeting Messaging Apps
Episode 569
Russian intelligence services are targeting Signal, WhatsApp, and Telegram users — not by breaking encryption, but by stealing accounts through phish…
2 months ago