Drex explores the fascinating work of Brian Krebs in exposing cybercriminals, Walmart's surprising acquisition of Vizio for customer data, and a British AI invention that fights scammers with humor and wit.
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Thanks for joining me today. Here's some stuff you might want to know about. There's an amazing story in the Wall Street Journal about Brian Krebs and the work he does investigating cyber criminals around the world. It gets into a lot of great detail. If you listen to The Two Minute Drill, I talk regularly about stories that we pull from his website, Krebs on Security.
This article takes us through the cat and mouse games he plays with cybercriminals in an effort to identify them and how that work has put his life at risk, including some of the extraordinary measures he has to take to protect himself and his family. It's 100 percent worth the read. Check it out now at ThisWeekHealth.
com slash news. Lots of people get a new TV this year. It's the holiday season. If you happen to buy a Vizio TV, you may have an unexpected additional gift coming your way. Walmart, yes, that Walmart, has purchased the TV manufacturer Vizio, but not for the reasons you might think. Those Vizio TVs are smart TVs, and they have a dedicated, uh, custom operating system called SmartCast that lets you run the Binge watching favorite apps that you have or stream content through their own services.
Well, Vizio currently has more than 19 million subscribers. So the real reason Walmart bought Vizio is that they'll now have access to all that subscriber information and they'll be able to load those TVs with Walmart ads. Walmart says the acquisition will give them new and different ways for them and other advertisers.
To meaningfully connect with customers at scale. So when we're talking about the value of your data, remember that Walmart just paid $2.3 billion for the acquisition of a FastPass into your living room. And here's an artificial intelligence use we can all root for. A British company has invented an AI grandma who's specifically designed to waste scammers time on the phone.
Grandma Daisy is a human like chatbot that yammers on about her cat, fluffy, and all the amazing knitting that she does. She's exactly what the scammer on your holiday list deserves. You can see a video of Daisy at work at thisweekhealth. com slash news. The 2 Minute Drill is brought to you by ORDR you know you can depend on ORDR to give you visibility into everything on your network, but now you can also depend on ORDR managed services to help you stay on top of all those things, in real time, all the time.
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