An expert in cybersecurity and network infrastructure, Nick Espinosa is a nationally recognized speaker, member of the Forbes Technology Council, TEDx Speaker, regular columnist for Forbes, award winning co-author of a bestselling book "Easy Prey", on the Board of Advisors for Roosevelt University's College of Arts and Sciences as well as their Center for Cyber and Information Security and also Bits N’ Bytes Cybersecurity Education, Nick is known as an industry thought leader and sought after for his advice on the future of technology and how it will impact every day businesses and consumers. Nick has consulted with clients ranging from small businesses up to the Fortune 100 level. He founded Windy City Networks, Inc in 1998 at age 19 and was acquired by BSSi2 LLC in 2013 where he is their CIO. In 2015 Security Fanatics, a Cybersecurity/Cyberwarfare outfit dedicated to designing custom Cyberdefense strategies for medium to enterprise corporations, was launched.
Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
The Great Firewall of China, Jaguar Land Rover, Workday, Facebook, Tenable and Qualys, HackerOne and so much more are all part of this week's breaches!
Ads in Windows 11... Come on, Man... by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
So, let's talk about the best countries to park your data!
If a law is literally impossible to follow, it undermines the legitimacy of the legal system itself. Decentralized social network platform Mastodon says it can't comply with Mississippi's age verification law. A law that cannot be complied with doesn't regulate behavior, instead it criminalizes existence. In this case, the law is less about shaping user behavior than about shaping which platforms survive. And this is where the US is heading. We explore this and so much more. Please don't miss this one.
Should AI Have Rights? by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
UK Age Verification is making people vulnerable by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
Phishing Awareness Training Doesn't Work... by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler, Cloudflare, Navy Fed, AT&T, more Salesforce fallout and now these segments are officially open bar...
and probably about 80 other countries too!
The "Dead Internet Theory" May Soon Be Real by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
How to Protect Yourself Against Government's Latest Spyware by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
Google, Transunion, Farmer's Insurance and even DOGE are part of this week's mess.
The long term ramifications of where this is heading needs discussion.
Let's dive into the Philosophy of Impossible Laws.
Episode 184 - The Society-Wide Problem With AI by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
AI Generated Ransomware Has Arrived by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
Your Apple Watch Is NOT Carbon Neutral... by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
If we keep this up, our growing population will be out of available jobs sooner than later...
PayPal, Workday, Panera, Manpower, Intel, Canada's House of Commons, and so much more are part of this week's breaches!
Roblox's Child Predator Problem by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
Excellent article I referenced: https://spectrum.ieee.org/lunar-nuclear-reactor-nasa-moon
AI browser assistants are a privacy disaster by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
The Society-Wide Problem With AI... by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
Scrolling has cost the world $9 Trillion! by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
The FDA's new AI is being inserted into the approval process for new medications and it's been caught fabricating studies, misinterpreting meeting conversations and worse... and RFK Jr. wants to use it to speed up the approval process! On top of this, it looks like airlines want to sell our biometrics, a new privacy nightmare of a US Health Database is being built and your AI therapist has no privacy protections. We explore ALL of this and so much more... don't miss this one!
Meta allows its chatbots to romance children by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
AI Proves Social Media Is The Death Of Us All by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
Microsoft Sued Over Stopping Windows 10 Support by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
Columbia University, Google, Salesforce, Air France, Pandora, Cisco, Chanel and so much more insanity are all part of this week's segment..
Meta illegally collected data from a pregnancy app by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
Instagram Map's Privacy Is Concerning.... by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
Will AI Cause An Extinction Level Event? by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
Governments are pushing hard for AI chip backdoors by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
The UK Age Verification Is Already A Failure by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
Microsoft Recall Is Still A Privacy Disaster by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
Dior (again), Nascar (again), Dollar Tree, Audi, IBM's amazing breach report and a breach so bad the military was called in.
As AI use rises, developers trust it less! by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
...in my opinion.
The New U.S. Health Tracking System Is A Privacy Nightmare by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
We're Creating A Mental Health Crisis In Our Kids by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
Data Privacy Laws Doesn't Mean We Have Data Privacy... by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
Dell, Nascar, Louis Vuitton, AT&T, Christian Dior, a dating app disaster the UK government and so many more...
The Era of Online Age Checks Is Here by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
THIS is why you don't use AI as a therapist... by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
From massive data breaches to social engineering to government surveillance to cross‑border data transfers to lack of transparency in data collection and usage and SO MUCH MORE, here are all the ways our privacy is being violated and what we can do about this... It's time to fight back.
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