S7, E276 - Ransomware Doesn't Have to Hit Like a Hurricane (with Jonathan Sander)
Send us Fan Mail Jonathan Sander is back on Privacy Please — and he's brought two blog posts worth arguing about. Sander (42 Notions, now in an operational role at Myota) joins Cam and Gabe to dig int...
2 Aug 49min
S7, E275 - Choose Wisely: GigaWiper, Your New Delete Button & The Gold Bar Grift
Send us Fan Mail Full Show Notes This week on Privacy Please, Cam breaks down four stories that all come back to one theme: choice. GigaWiper — Microsoft researchers uncovered a new backdoor malware ...
18 Juli 9min
S7, E274 - Your Password Is Already For Sale
Send us Fan Mail Last year, every major outlet ran the same story: 16 billion passwords exposed. Apple. Google. Facebook. The largest breach in history. It was overblown. Security experts tore it apar...
29 Juni 20min
S7, E273 - Inside Shiny Hunters And The New Era Of SaaS Breaches
Send us Fan Mail Gabe and I dig into Shiny Hunters and why the scariest cyberattacks now look like ordinary logins instead of dramatic break-ins. We map how credential theft, social engineering, and S...
4 Juni 24min
S7, E272 - They Know What You Watched
Send us Fan Mail SHOW NOTES The Pornhub breach is being reported as a data story. It's actually a story about shame as a weapon. In December 2025, a hacker group called ShinyHunters claimed to have ...
23 Maj 16min
S7, E271 - One File to Rule Them All
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Privacy Please, Cameron Ivey investigates Palantir Technologies — a data analytics company founded in 2003 with CIA backing that has quietly become embedded across ...
5 Maj 22min
S7, E270 - The 40-Minute Hack That Stole the Blueprint for AI | The Mercor Breach
Send us Fan Mail A normal data breach steals names and passwords. This one may have stolen the recipe for building the world’s most powerful AI models, and it happened through software most people wil...
20 Apr 13min
S7, E269 - You're the Teacher Now: How Companies Are Using Your Data to Build AI That Replaces You
Send us Fan Mail You already knew you were the product. But did you know you're also the teacher? Companies are quietly feeding your emails, your work decisions, your customer interactions, and your d...
1 Apr 12min
