This week on The Awareness Angle, data breaches keep piling up, ransomware is still doing damage, and software updates are becoming an attack surface all of their own. Luke is on holiday, so I am flying solo, but there is plenty to dig into.

We start with a classic insider risk failure at Coupang, where a former employee kept access after leaving, followed by a credit checking firm exposing millions of people who may never even have heard of them. We also look at a misconfiguration that left vet records publicly accessible, and a pharma company hit by ransomware where data theft came before encryption.

In What the Hack, Apple rushes out emergency patches for active zero-day exploits, Notepad++ fixes a flaw that allowed malicious updates to be pushed to users, and LG quietly installs Microsoft Copilot onto smart TVs with no option to remove it, raising uncomfortable questions about control and consent.

We then move into the wider topics, from why a breached Pringles account is actually a serious lesson about password reuse, to Roblox horror games rated far too young, smarter captchas designed to beat bots, and a US proposal that could see travellers handing over years of social media history just to cross the border.

If you want cyber news explained with clarity and zero jargon, you are in the right place.

Chapters

00:00 Welcome and this week’s stories

01:10 Breach Watch begins

Breach Watch

01:30 Coupang breach traced to ex-employee access

06:30 Credit check company breach exposes millions

13:40 Petco Vetco website data exposure

19:40 Inotiv ransomware attack and data theft

What the Hack

25:30 Apple emergency zero-day updates

30:40 What is a zero day, explained simply

32:30 Notepad++ malicious update flaw

37:40 LG TVs install Microsoft Copilot

Ant’s Topics

46:10 Germany accuses Russia of air traffic control cyber attack

49:20 Pringles account breach and password reuse

51:40 Roblox games and content maturity concerns

53:40 US proposal to collect travellers’ social media history

Wrap Up

54:50 Final thoughts and sign off

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