This week on The Awareness Angle, Anthony Davis and Luke Pettigrew dig into everything from privacy holes in the UK’s Online Safety Act to deepfake diet scams and a ransomware payout denied over missing MFA. It’s a mix of policy, people, and pure cyber weirdness you won’t want to miss.

🇬🇧 UK Online Safety Act – New age verification rules put privacy on the line, with overseas firms handling sensitive data, no clear safeguards, and easy VPN workarounds.

🖥️ Microsoft Recall Risks – Despite Microsoft’s reassurances, Recall can still capture passwords, credit card details, and private chats—data that’s stored locally and vulnerable if your device is compromised.

💰 Hamilton’s Insurance Nightmare – A ransomware recovery claim denied because the city hadn’t implemented MFA as required by their cyber policy.

🛡️ Proton Authenticator Launch – Free, privacy-first 2FA app with encryption, cross-device sync, and no ads or tracking.

🛍️ Deepfake Diet Scams – Fake online health stores use AI-generated before/after shots and impersonate real dietitians to push unregulated products.

📞 Google Salesforce Breach – Voice phishing used to gain CRM access, proving social engineering still outpaces many technical controls.

🎧 Pandora Data Breach – Third-party platform compromise exposed customer names and emails—possible link to ShinyHunters.

📱 WhatsApp Scam Takedowns – 6.8M accounts shut down in six months, many tied to organised crime networks in Southeast Asia.

🖥️ Old Tech Risks – From Windows Server 2003 to WEP Wi-Fi, outdated systems are still in active use, posing massive security risks.

📧 Reply-All Apocalypse – The 2016 NHS mass email storm shows how human error can grind operations to a halt.

🕵️‍♂️ North Korean IT Workers – Thousands of covert contractors using fake IDs to funnel foreign pay back to the DPRK regime.

💬 Community & Social Reactions – From phishing test backlash to TikTok debates, we dive into what people are really saying about security awareness.

If you want the week’s big cyber stories distilled into practical takeaways—with a side of eyebrow-raising human behaviour—this one’s got it all.

🕒 Timestamps

00:00:00 – Intro & studio update

00:03:08 – VPN chaos & Online Safety Act

00:06:05 – Labour’s VPN warning

00:08:57 – Sims beat facial recognition

00:11:10 – Spotify’s age checks

00:12:42 – Funny VPN reel

00:16:08 – YouTube uses AI to guess age

00:17:16 – Google AI search shake-up

00:21:10 – Lovense email leak

00:23:31 – Copilot Mode & privacy

00:27:05 – Allianz breach

00:29:28 – St. Paul ransomware

00:32:53 – NASCAR ransom

00:35:31 – Orange France hack

00:36:42 – QR code TikTok goes viral

00:39:47 – Copilot Vision backlash

00:42:19 – CybSafe SebDB 4.0

00:44:42 – Free maturity model tool

00:48:58 – SANS Summit preview

00:52:53 – Shoutout to Dan Connolly

00:55:08 – Phishing test horror story

01:01:09 – Bin chaos = bad UX

01:04:40 – Bird audio encryption

01:08:58 – Fable Security debut

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