July 2025

Can YOU Spot AI Vids?

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It's Getting Harder and Harder

It's not often that I forward a video on to my mom and dad with the message "You NEED to watch this!" but the recent video by Corridor Crew was excellent. We live in a world where it's getting harder and harder to distinguish between what's real and what's AI-generated...so how are our parents supposed to know?

​Teaching HOW to Spot Fake AI Videos →​

Go Deeper: a lot of the content I produce for All Things Secured is developed with my the "average user" like my parents in mind. What are the easy steps that anyone can take to protect their online accounts and privacy? Here are two more videos to pass along:

11 Easy Privacy Tips You don't have to be a privacy fanatic to build better privacy in your life. ​Learn these 11 tips →​

7 UNCOMMON Tips These are the tips and hacks that aren't as common but still work. ​Take the NEXT Step →​

The Potential & Dangers of AI

Hi [CORRECTED_NAME GOES HERE], unless you've been living off the grid for the past couple years, you've had at least some exposure to AI. For a while, everything was all about "ChatGPT" and prompts and stuff. Then, almost overnight, it turned into something worse:

AI Slop

This is the term being used to describe the disgusting amount of AI-generated junk that is now littering our social feeds, YouTube watch list and even our email inbox.

It used to be super easy to spot this slop. I remember seeing a video of an avalanche that looked so real, but then seeing all the people at the bottom of the mountain just looking up at their impending death instead of running away. It was obviously AI.

Unfortunately, it's getting to a point where it won't be so obvious.

So what steps are you taking to make sure that you or your parents aren't susceptible to an AI-generated social engineering attack on your family?

Pro Tip: Create a family code word that everyone knows that can be used to quickly verify that a request or a plea for help is real.

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This Week in Privacy News

​North Korean Deepfake Attack on Zoom​

Speaking of the dangers of AI...North Korean hackers employ social engineering to trick Zoom Meeting participants into executing system-takeover commands.

--> securityweek.com/north-korean-hackers-take-over-victims-systems-using-zoom-meeting/

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​​Be Careful Who you Call​

A sophisticated scam operation targeting major American companies, including Netflix, Microsoft, and Bank of America, where attackers manipulate legitimate websites to display fraudulent phone numbers.

--> cybersecuritynews.com/search-parameter-injection-attack/
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​Time to Change Your Password?​

More than 16 billion login credentials for Google, Facebook, Apple and other platforms have been exposed in one of the largest databases of cybersecurity breaches of all time, according to a Cybernews report.

--> axios.com/2025/06/20/data-breach-passwords-leaked-google-apple-meta

How protected is your family?

Since you're on this email newsletter, chances are you've made some pretty good steps in your own privacy and security journey.

But what about the rest of your family?

I encourage you to forward this email to at least one person in your family who you think would benefit from learning more about AI, security & privacy.

✌️

Josh

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