Unsupervised Learning
469 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 127 ratingsUnsupervised Learning is a Security, AI, and Meaning-focused podcast that looks at how best to thrive as humans in a post-AI world. It combines original ideas, analysis, and mental models to bring not just the news, but why it matters and how to respond.
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Unsupervised Learning: No. 238
July 21, 2020 04:38 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBTwitter's Breach, The US Attacked IRA, Bloomberg FBI Sabre, Iran Keeps Getting Hacked, Russia's Cozy Bear, Cloudflare Outage, UIPath Automation, Verizon Uses Google AI to Automate Customer Service, Gamers Are Spending More, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Our Lighted Path to Totalitarianism
July 16, 2020 08:13 - 14 minutes - 12.9 MBAn essay on how five trends seem to naturally guide civilizations towards Totalitarianism as they progress, and what we can do to avoid that outcome. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unsupervised Learning: No. 237
July 13, 2020 17:32 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MBAmericans in China, TikTok Banning, Chinese Critics, BlueLeaks, Router Security, COVID Accelerating Trends, Twitter Subscriptions?, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Searching for the Ultimate Obstacle to Creativity
July 07, 2020 08:00 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MBThis essay looks at Training as Avoidance, The Toolbox Fallacy, and procrastination, and explores a potential root cause that underpins them all to inhibit creativity. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unsupervised Learning: No. 236
July 06, 2020 08:02 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MBEncrochat breach, F5 Big Problem, DHS Social Election Query, WastedLocker, India Bans Chinese Apps, Florida DNA Privacy, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unsupervised Learning: No. 235
June 29, 2020 03:20 - 18 minutes - 17 MBChinese diplomats stealing secrets, COVID flying risk, RT interviewing US cops, Army Ignite future predictors, China launches its GPS network, Russians paid bounties to kill US troops, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unsupervised Learning: No. 234
June 21, 2020 21:58 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBRipple20 IoT Vulns, Homeland Security Surveillance, US Cyber Budget, Adobe EOL, AWS DDoS, Bellingcat Poison Investigation, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Dark Web Has Nothing on Data Brokers
June 15, 2020 17:08 - 7 minutes - 7.01 MBHow so-called legitimate Data Brokers are a far worse threat to peoples' privacy than cyber-criminals operating on the Dark Web. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unsupervised Learning: No. 233
June 15, 2020 07:20 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MBSMBleed, Republicans. vs. China, Hawkey Surveillance, COVID in August 2019, IBM Facial PR, Palantir NHS, Blockchain Misinformation, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Problem With Extracted Versions of Things
June 12, 2020 10:33 - 5 minutes - 5.45 MBA short essay on how we might get more pleasure from things that take longer to process and attain, and what we can do with that information. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unsupervised Learning: No. 232
June 08, 2020 08:12 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MBCOVID-19 Trends, New Zoom Trouble, Facebook Blocking, Chrome Incognito Suit, Retail Rents, Nuclear Contractor Hack, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unsupervised Learning: No. 231
June 01, 2020 06:00 - 18 minutes - 16.8 MBUS Protests & Unrest, Trump Goes Into the Bunker, NSA Warns on Exim, Octopus Scanner, Stanford's SIO Virality Project, Windows 10 Update, SHA-1 Deprecated in SSH, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unsupervised Learning: No. 230
May 25, 2020 21:50 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MBTwitter Bots, Face Recognition Headsets, Chrome Bug Memories, Virtual Currency, White House OPSEC, Realtime Language Translation, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Analysis of the 2020 Verizon Data Breach Report
May 20, 2020 04:30 - 10 minutes - 9.78 MBIn this episode, Daniel takes a look at the 2020 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. He looks at the key findings and talks about what they might mean to us going forward. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unsupervised Learning: No. 229
May 18, 2020 08:04 - 19 minutes - 17.7 MBFeds Release Top Vulns, China Brainwave Tracking, Europe CISSP Masters, Army Electronic Warfare, Microsoft Third-largest Patch Tuesday, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unsupervised Learning: No. 228
May 12, 2020 06:08 - 16 minutes - 15.3 MBThunderbolt Attack, Celebrity Ransomware, ClearView Government, Blackhat DEFCON Virtual, War Thunder, 5G Bio Attacks, PC Game Cheating, Zoom Keybase, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unsupervised Learning: No. 227
May 04, 2020 04:44 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBVICE vs. Chinese Surveillance, Indian Contact Tracing, NHS + GCHQ, Banjo Racism, Singapore Requires Check-ins, Bruce on Contact Tracing, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unsupervised Learning: No. 226
April 28, 2020 08:24 - 20 minutes - 19 MBBay Area Lockdown Til May, The Swedish Approach, California Autopsies, Zoom Security Updates, Palantir Contacts, NSA Web Vulns, GreyNoise Services, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A Conversation with Renée DiResta: Disinformation and Conspiracy Propagation
April 22, 2020 04:35 - 1 hour - 60.7 MBIn this episode, Daniel speaks with Renée DiResta about her work tracking narratives online. They discuss: The different strains of false information Her work at the Stanford Internet Observatory How the same narrative can be used by multiple sides The origin of the Bill Gates conspiracies Mapping campaigns to actor strategies What she recommends others do who are interested in her field Other topics around disinformation, conspiracy, and narrative tracking Renée DiResta is the...
Unsupervised Learning: No. 225
April 21, 2020 05:33 - 14 minutes - 13.6 MBFlu Simulations, Amazon Thermal Cameras, Facebook Bad Info Tracing, 5G Gates Conspiracies, Google Slows Hiring, Amazon Hires More, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unsupervised Learning: No. 224
April 14, 2020 14:27 - 20 minutes - 18.5 MBBiogen Superspreaders, African Locusts, Game of Life, Meat Troubles, 5G Conspiracies, Japan Getting Out of China, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unsupervised Learning: No. 223
April 07, 2020 05:50 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MBCoronavirus unemployment rate, 2 million guns, UK 5G attacks, German Antibodies, Zoom Drama, New Cloudflare Servers, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A Conversation With Leif Dreizler About Security Engineering at Segment
April 02, 2020 06:15 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MBSo today I’m talking to Leif Dreizler. Leif is a buddy of mine who also works in San Francisco. He’s a developer at a company called Segment, and over the last year or so he’s been telling me about all kinds of cool stuff he’s been working on, how his team is set up, and how they see security teams being built in the future. So we’re going to cover those topics and more in a conversation that ranges from security engineering strategy to solving specific problems through custom tooling. Beco...
Unsupervised Learning: No. 222
March 30, 2020 08:49 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MBWho's hiring, freezing, and laying off, models predict 100-200K US deaths, April distancing, Adversarial Capital, Booz Russia, Google State Phishes, Worker Monitoring, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unsupervised Learning: No. 221
March 24, 2020 06:20 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBHealth-justified Video Surveillance, FDA Emergency Approval of a C19 Test, Israel Mobile Monitoring, Amazon Essentials, Pandemic Drone Monitoring, Retasking Factories, Rich People Ventilators, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unsupervised Learning: No. 220
March 17, 2020 15:30 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MBVirus updates, Github gets NPM, New Stimulus, Amazon Hiring 100K, Saltwater Nozzles, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unsupervised Learning: No. 219
March 09, 2020 16:04 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MBCoronavirus Update, Nation-state Exchange Hacking, FuzzBench, New Artillery, Germ Catapults, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unsupervised Learning: No. 218
March 02, 2020 18:55 - 14 minutes - 13 MBSARS-CoV-2 update, China's health tracking, Firefox DNS over HTTPS, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unsupervised Learning: No. 217
February 24, 2020 17:43 - 19 minutes - 17.6 MBMGM breach, DDoS and Ransomware on the Rise, Twitter v. Bloomberg, Tesla Tape, Russia Pro Trump & Pro Bernie, Tapping Cables, Insider Concern, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unsupervised Learning: No. 216
February 20, 2020 18:29 - 13 minutes - 12.7 MBAdsense Extortion, OT Ransomware Attack, Ring 2FA, Smart Speaker Jamming Bracelet, DARPA's Flying Gun, Lots of Advisories, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A Conversation With General Earl Matthews on Election Security
February 15, 2020 19:05 - 39 minutes - 35.8 MBIn this episode I speak with retired Air Force Major General Earl Matthews on the topic of election security. We talk about digital elections, attacking trust in the US system, social media influence campaigns, and possible motives for foreign interference in US elections. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unsupervised Learning: No. 215
February 10, 2020 15:53 - 14 minutes - 13 MBIran DDoS, Jigsaw Picture Validation, 1000 Chinese Espionage Cases, Twitter Deepfake Labeling, Android Bluetooth Vuln, Cisco Discovery Vuln, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unsupervised Learning: No. 214
February 04, 2020 06:34 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MBLondon Facial Recognition, Coalfire Freedom, NYT Reporter Spyware, Avast Sells Customer Data, Google's Bounty Program, Kali 2020, Harvard Chemist Espionage, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unsupervised Learning: No. 213
January 27, 2020 16:58 - 18 minutes - 16.8 MBSaudi Bezos Hack, MIT Davos AI, Moar Energy Attacks, NIST Privacy, Ohio CISO, Microsoft Data Breach, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unsupervised Learning: No. 212
January 21, 2020 16:45 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBClearview AI Surveillance De-anonymizing Faces, Face Obscuring Tech, Google Cookies, San Diego GE Surveillance, Oregon Selling DMV Data, Windows 7 Done, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unsupervised Learning: No. 211
January 13, 2020 17:05 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MBCalifornia's Privacy Law, SHA1 exploit, Ransomware Storage, Ring Voyeurs, 20 vs. 2020, ATT&CK ICS, Telecom SMS, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Visibility and Understanding Create Both Tools and Weapons
January 12, 2020 07:19 - 5 minutes - 5.35 MBHow increased understanding leads to the creation of better and better tools, and why tools are inexorable from weapons. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unsupervised Learning: No. 210
January 08, 2020 07:19 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MBWar with Iran, TikTok, New GIAC cert, Mystery Drones, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unsupervised Learning: No. 209
December 30, 2019 20:14 - 15 minutes - 13.9 MBRing Sued, Mean Time to Hardening, APT20 2FA, China Base Pictures, China Satellites, Angled Toilets, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unsupervised Learning: No. 208
December 23, 2019 20:13 - 15 minutes - 14 MBMobile Tracking, Chinese Drone-Flu Terrorism, Message Spying, Bing Misinformation, 23andMe GlaxoSmithKline, Spam Laws, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unsupervised Learning: No. 207
December 17, 2019 21:18 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBPentagon vendor requirements, Ring camera freakout, Bluetooth Thieves, Palantir Pentagon, Amazon Rekognition, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unsupervised Learning: No. 206
December 09, 2019 18:20 - 21 minutes - 19.9 MBVietnamese BMW APT, Defense Contractor Prep, China replacing a culture, HackerOne Cookie Snafu, Chinese Also Worried About Privacy, China Mobile Face, CDC Flu Warning, AWS Sagemaker, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unsupervised Learning: No. 205
December 02, 2019 05:58 - 34 minutes - 31.1 MBSpam trends, CWE's latest 25, Uber audio recordings, Uber unauthorized drivers, Chinese research theft, Google state-actor notifications, bluetooth burglars, Nixon deepface, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unsupervised Learning: No. 203
November 18, 2019 17:15 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MBGoogle health care, Google checking, Github open source, China policy hack, Hactivist bounties, healthcare attacks, facial protests, OSINT CTF, surveillance robots, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unsupervised Learning: No. 202
November 11, 2019 16:40 - 14 minutes - 13.2 MBCapital fired, DHS biodata, Twitter insiders, Baltimore Cyber Insurance, Airbnb Assessment, Google Play Malware, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unsupervised Learning: No. 201
November 04, 2019 16:59 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MBUnify drama, Fancy cheating, NSO lawsuits, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unsupervised Learning: No. 200
October 28, 2019 15:41 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MB200th episode!, White House cyber vacancies, AT&T SIM bribery, South Africa ultimatum, climate change power crash, Bahgdadi dead, RuNET, NYT insanity, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unsupervised Learning: No. 199
October 21, 2019 15:48 - 18 minutes - 16.9 MBStolen Cards Stolen, Autoclerk Hacked, TeamViewer Hacked, Russia Pretending to be Iranian, JackSpotting, Pixel4 Faces, FrenchFacRec, Samsung Fingerprints, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unsupervised Learning: No. 198
October 14, 2019 05:19 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MBEye reflection EXIF, WiFi gait, Russian Cyber Clusters, Russia African Americans, China Pressure, VPN drama, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism… Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unsupervised Learning: No. 197
October 07, 2019 05:18 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MBYahoo creep, DarkNet, E2E encryption, Cyber talent, RandomDeath, Private Data Property, Eyeballer, plus Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends and Analysis, Updates, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Aphorism for the week! Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.