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 person detection and facial recognition are different problems, and what model...
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, passwords, devices, files, money, cloud storage, crypto, and online identity if...
Flock cameras and automated license plate readers are often sold as tools for finding stolen cars, wanted suspects, missing people, and serious threats. But a 404 Media report about police allegedly using a Flock camera image for a traffic ticket...
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 intent, an agent following bad scope boundaries, or a warning about giving AI...
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 this episode, but the bigger issue is not just one annoying popup. Hardware...
Surveillance pricing turns personal data, shopping history, location signals, loyalty programs, and AI-driven profiling into different prices or discounts for different people — often without consumers realizing their data has become the price tag.
Russian intelligence services are targeting Signal, WhatsApp, and Telegram users — not by breaking encryption, but by stealing accounts through phishing, QR code tricks, linked-device abuse, and backup recovery key theft. We discuss the FBI warning...
The Supreme Court says constitutional privacy protections can apply to cellphone location history and geofence warrant data. Tom Eston and Scott Wright discuss the privacy implications of geofence warrants — requests that can sweep up information...
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 training, and part of the team behind the DEF CON Kubernetes CTF. Jay shares...
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 to a possible jailbreak. Anthropic complied, but pushed back on the reasoning...