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CyberAware Daily — 2026-09-21
- The FBI is investigating a service claiming to sell more than 153 million driving licence records.
- Never pay a website that claims to check if your details have been leaked. Use a trusted service instead.
- Treat your driving licence number like your bank details. Don't share it unless you know who you're dealing with.
- Patch Tuesday is expected this week with a large batch of updates. Install them when prompted and turn on automatic updates.
- Our monitoring teams continue to track an active dark web leak site. Strong passwords and two factor authentication remain your best defence.
- One thing to do this week: check for updates tonight and switch on automatic updates.
More at https://cyberawareuk.co.uk
📄 Full transcript
It's Monday the 21st of September, and you're listening to CyberAware UK,
the show that keeps British families one step ahead of the scammers.
Morning. It's Monday, so we do the week ahead. What's on the radar?
Two things. One big story about your driving license,
and a heads up on what's coming over the next few days.
Start with the driving license, because that got my attention.
The FBI is investigating a service that claims to be selling more than 153 million driving license records.
That's a huge number. Where would those records even come from?
The claim is that they were pulled together from different sources over time.
And that is something the FBI is still working through.
So what does that actually mean for someone listening in the UK?
First, stay calm. If you hear about this online, don't go handing your details to a website claiming to check if you're affected.
That's a classic move, isn't it? Scare people, then charge them to check.
Exactly. If you want to know whether your information has been caught up in a data breach,
use a reputable service and never pay a random site for it.
And the practical stuff. What should people actually do this week?
Treat your driving license number like you'd treat your bank details.
It's used to prove who you are in a lot of places, so don't share it unless you're sure who you're dealing with.
Now, this is Monday. So what's coming this week that we should be watching?
Patch Tuesday lands in the next couple of days.
That's the day software companies push out their regular security updates, and this month there's a big batch expected.
Right, and that means what for normal people?
It means by the end of the week your phone, your laptop, and your tablet will be asking to restart.
Let it.
Those updates close the gaps that criminals use.
Worth saying. You don't need to understand what's inside the update.
Just install it.
That's it.
Turn on automatic updates if you haven't already, and do the same for the older devices in the house.
Anything else on the dark web side?
Our monitoring teams have seen a lot of captured activity this week.
There's an active dark web leak site doing the usual rounds, but the advice hasn't changed.
Strong unique passwords and two-factor authentication on the accounts that matter most.
And if someone rings you claiming your details have leaked and they can fix it for a fee?
Put the phone down.
That's a scam.
Nothing about a genuine data breach requires you to pay a stranger to sort it out.
Let's end with the one thing to do this week.
Before you go to bed tonight, check your phone and your computer for updates,
and turn on automatic updates so you never have to think about it again.
Brilliant.
That's your one job.
We'll be back tomorrow.
Take care.
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