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 Hey everyone. I'm Drex Sand. This is the two minute drill where I cover some of the hottest security stories in healthcare, all part of the 2 29 projects, cyber and risk community here at this week. Health, it's great seeing you today. Here's some stuff you might wanna know about. We're living in what I'm calling a trust recession, and I didn't make that term up.

It's something that's been around for a while, but it seems to fit better now than ever before. And I say that because nobody's completely sure what's real anymore. It's not one big thing. It's sort of a relentless drumbeat of micro trusts, failures. And that lack of trust affects everything. The news, the text, I just got, the video you're watching on social media, especially social media, but also the need to be skeptical about, for example, the person on messaging with right now on LinkedIn.

So it's not just you This year, the landscape got really weird, really fast and trust just didn't keep up. Think about your average day. You look at a product review online. It could be real. It could be a bot with a surprisingly strong opinion about garden hoses. You watch a viral clip, maybe it happened, maybe it didn't.

With tools like Sora and Nano Banana, it's hard to tell these days where you get an email that looks like it's from hr, but it might be somebody in another country using an AI created template and a burner domain. That uses a zero instead of an O. So it looks legit, but it's not. We used to assume everything was real until proven fake, and now it's flipped.

Everything's fake until it's proven real. So let's talk a little bit more about ai, a term that's become so overused that everything is ai, even when it's not. In the podcast, uh, UN Hack the podcast and the special series I did on fake, and of course the two minute drill. I've talked a lot about deep fakes and AI written emails and synthetic customer support agents that sound real but aren't.

Even though they might be more empathetic than some of the humans who used to have those jobs, even songs that sound like they're written and performed by real musicians, but the tunes they crank out are actually created using prompts. All worked through ai. I've talked about fake resumes, even fake employees, north Korean operatives, passing interviews at US Health Systems and other companies by leveraging AI generated voices that makes the comment sound like a native English speaker.

And AI generated videos of themselves that look like they're AI generated identity documents, all of that while they're getting the high paying jobs by passing coding tests with the help of AI assistance. And you might think, oh, those DeepFakes, they're not after me. They're after celebrities and big companies.

But no, the real goal is to fake you out. And this stuff takes a real emotional toll when everything can be spoofed. People start living with a low level doubt about everything all the time. And over the past two years, at the end of every show, I've said something like, stay a little paranoid. And in the beginning I thought to myself, well, that word paranoid, maybe it's a little too strong.

And now two years later, I'm mostly not sure it's strong enough. So here we are in the holiday season, cyber thugs are in overdrive and scammers are swarming. Here's some ideas about how you can stay safe. Slow down, take a breath, validate information before you amplify it, especially on the socials, a post or a comment or an image.

Just take a second and think about it. An email and text messages, check tone, and timing and context, and look at that from block a couple of extra times, a little double check. Never hurts anything, and if something arrives demanding your urgent attention outta the blue. Odds are it's fake. Assume unknown callers are not who they say they are.

And if you're not sure, hang up and call 'em back at a number you know, to be their real number. And if you're unsure about any of this, it's okay to ask someone you trust for a second opinion. You should probably just go ahead and do that, and maybe most importantly, trust your gut. That's actually your brain trying to keep you outta trouble.

Yeah, every era has its scams. Ours just happens to be in high definition right now, so I don't say any of this to scare you. We just live in a time where you need to be a little more alert than normal. And if there's anything I can do to help, just yell. I'm Drex at this week, health.com. Share this with your teams, and once again, thanks for being here.

That's it for today's two minute drill. Stay a little paranoid. I'll see you around campus.