Phillip Shoemaker

CEO | Al Strategy Executive | Keynote Speaker →
Focused on protecting people from online threats like Al impersonation, deepfakes, fraud, and scams.

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📦 Outsourcing risk doesn't eliminate risk. It just changes who gets hacked first.

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🏦 Security researchers continue analyzing a growing pattern behind several major 2026 breaches: third-party vendors becoming the single point of failure for multiple enterprises at once.

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🔗 When one supplier gets compromised, banks, healthcare providers, and enterprise customers can all become collateral damage simultaneously. Supply-chain attacks have evolved from rare events into repeatable business models.

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🎬 Bollywood actor Varun Dhawan joined a growing wave of celebrities pursuing legal protection against AI-driven misuse of their likeness, image, and personality rights online.

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🎭 Yet another reminder that attackers increasingly hack people before they hack systems.

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🎡 Carnival’s breach just got uglier. Nearly 6 million customers are now confirmed impacted after attackers used social engineering to compromise an employee account and access personal records.

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🪪 Names, addresses, birthdates, passport numbers, and driver’s license data were exposed. That's not a customer list — that's a starter kit for identity fraud.

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🪪 The future deepfake battle may be less about detecting fake content and more about proving who legally owns a digital identity in the first place.

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🎬 Bollywood actor Varun Dhawan joined a growing wave of celebrities pursuing legal protection against AI-driven misuse of their likeness, image, and personality rights online.

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⚖️ What makes this significant is that celebrity deepfake defense is evolving from reactive takedowns into proactive legal infrastructure designed to establish ownership and control before abuse occurs.

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🔑 Somewhere along the way we accidentally turned phone numbers into skeleton keys for digital life.

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🇮🇹 Threat actors are advertising an alleged dataset tied to Italian telecom provider Iliad containing customer records, device registration information, and subscription account data.

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📱 Telecom breaches hit differently because phone numbers increasingly function as identity infrastructure for banking, authentication, recovery flows, and fraud prevention systems.

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Can you *really* prove it's you on a Zoom call? AI can now clone voices and create realistic video spoofs. The next security frontier isn't detecting fakes, but proving real people are who they claim to be. This is the future of digital identity.
#DigitalIdentity #AISecurity #FutureTech

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The AI conversation in music has been stuck between two positions for a while. Block it at every turn, or let it run without permission and watch the artists whose work it depends on get nothing in return.

A new UMG-Spotify licensing deal points to a third option. Premium subscribers can use AI to remix and cover songs from participating UMG artists inside the Spotify app, with revenue flowing back to the artist and the rights holder.

The structure does the heavy lifting. Artists opt in at the catalog level. Use cases are defined in advance. Revenue is split. Attribution is required on anything fans make.

Fans get a creative tool that does not require dodging the copyright system. Artists get a new revenue line from work that was going to happen anyway. The creative side of AI can keep going.
https://t.co/T2Q6DPfzrQ

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☎️ The help desk is rapidly becoming one of the most valuable attack surfaces in modern enterprise security.

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📞 ShinyHunters is claiming responsibility for a massive Charter Communications breach involving roughly 40 million customer records after attackers allegedly used voice phishing against employees.

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🎤 The shift here is operational. Attackers increasingly don’t need sophisticated malware when they can simply call people, impersonate authority, and let internal processes do the rest.

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🎟️ We keep calling these “account compromises” as if the account somehow compromised itself.

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🎡 Nearly 6 million Carnival customers are now dealing with the fallout from a breach tied to a compromised employee account that exposed names, addresses, birthdates, passport numbers, and driver’s license information.

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🪪 The interesting part isn’t just the scale — it’s how much high-value identity data was sitting behind a single successfully manipulated employee account.