Shared Security Podcast

Will AI Kill Us All? Real Risks, Real Controls

Will AI kill us all? Tom Eston, Scott Wright, and Kevin Tackett examine competing AI-risk claims, public calls for guardrails, and the gap between dramatic safety messagi

153 Million Driver’s Licenses for Sale: Why Identity Verification Is Broken

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 verification into foc

Is Hotel WiFi Safe?

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 CaptiveCrunch reporting, in

Could a Pattern on Your Clothing Fool Facial Recognition? Interview with Bill Swearingen

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 clothing research, why per

What Happens to Your Digital Life When You Die?

Scott Wright joins Shared Security to discuss his Digital Legacy Tree framework and upcoming book, The Digital Legacy Tree. We talk about what happens to your accounts, p

Flock Cameras Exposed: Traffic Tickets, ALPRs, and Vehicle Surveillance

Flock cameras and automated license plate readers are often sold as tools for finding stolen cars, wanted suspects, missing people, and serious threats. But what happens

GrapheneOS Phone Wipe Case: When Privacy Tools Become Evidence

A federal case involving a GrapheneOS phone wipe during an airport search raises a bigger question for privacy-minded users: can using strong mobile security features be

OpenAI Says Its AI Hacked Another Company on Its Own

OpenAI disclosed an unusual AI security incident involving a frontier model evaluation and Hugging Face, but the episode cuts through the hype: was this true autonomous i

Your Monitor Can Install Adware Now?

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 story that kicks off t

Surveillance Pricing: When Your Data Sets the Price

This week on Shared Security, Tom and Scott dig into surveillance pricing: the use of personal data, behavioral profiles, shopping history, location signals, income assum

Signal Phishing and Russian Intelligence Targeting Messaging Apps

Russian intelligence services are targeting Signal, WhatsApp, and Telegram users — not by breaking encryption, but by stealing accounts through phishing, QR code tricks,

The Supreme Court Just Put Limits on Geofence Warrants

The Supreme Court says constitutional privacy protections can apply to cellphone location history and geofence warrant data. Tom Eston and Scott Wright discuss the privac

Jay Beale on Kubernetes, DEF CON, and AI Attack Paths

This week on Shared Security, Tom and Kevin sit down with Jay Beale — founder of InGuardians, long-time Black Hat trainer, creator/contributor behind Kubernetes security

Can the Government Shut Down Frontier AI Overnight?

The U.S. government reportedly ordered Anthropic to suspend access to two of its newest frontier AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns tied t

Guarding AI Agents: Boundaries and Safeguards

AI agents are useful, but they become risky when they can take action in real systems. In this episode, Tom Eston discusses recent reporting about attackers tricking Meta

Mobile Application Security: What Every Organization Needs to Know

Mobile apps are now deeply connected platforms for identities, payments, sessions, APIs, healthcare, retail, gaming, and cloud services. In this special episode, Tom Esto

Microsoft Threatens Legal Action Over Exploit Disclosure

Microsoft’s response to a researcher publicly disclosing proof-of-concept exploit code has reignited an old debate in security: where does responsible disclosure end and

Apple Finally Fixes One of Texting’s Biggest Security Problems

Apple and Google are finally bringing end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging to iPhone and Android chats. In this episode, Tom Eston and Kevin Tackett explain why that matter

Should AI Have Access to Your Financial Life?

OpenAI is now allowing some ChatGPT users to connect their bank accounts and financial data directly to the platform. In this episode, we discuss the technology behind th

Cybersecurity Lessons from the Canvas Data Breach

In this episode we discuss the recent cyber attack targeting Instructure’s widely used learning platform, Canvas, and the major late-breaking development that Instructure