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Enjoying the content? Let us know your feedback! This week we are going to talk about a bug with one of the most misleading names I have seen in a while. It is called copy.fail. And if you saw that name pop up in your feed, you would be forgiven for thinking it was some clever browser demo, or maybe a problem with your clipboard. It is neither. copy.fail is a Linux kernel vulnerability. Its offici...

Enjoying the content? Let us know your feedback! Today's episode is one of those stories that, when you start pulling the thread, the whole thing just keeps unravelling. We are going to talk about the Mercor breach. Now, if that name doesn't ring a bell, Mercor is a ten-billion-dollar AI recruiting startup. They match human experts with companies like OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic to help...

Enjoying the content? Let us know your feedback! Today's episode is one of those stories that really does hit home. Not a bank breach. Not some government leak. I want to talk about the water coming out of your tap. On March 14th, 2026, hackers dropped ransomware on a water treatment plant in Minot, North Dakota. Staff walked in that morning, saw a ransom note sitting on a server screen, and...

Enjoying the content? Let us know your feedback! This is Part 2 of our deep dive into Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing. In Part 1, we covered what Mythos is, how it fits into the Claude model family, and why Anthropic is pushing the boundaries of extended thinking and complex reasoning. Today, we are picking up right where we left off and turning our attention to Projec...

Enjoying the content? Let us know your feedback! About three weeks ago, on the 7th of April, Anthropic — the company behind the Claude family of AI models — announced something called Claude Mythos Preview. They paired the announcement with a coordinated industry effort they're calling Project Glasswing. And the headlines that followed have been, frankly, alarming. Fortune ran a piece headlin...

Enjoying the content? Let us know your feedback! We have got two big stories to get through today. First, the FBI just released its 2025 Internet Crime Report — and the numbers are not just record-breaking, they are genuinely alarming. We are talking about over twenty billion dollars in reported losses in a single year. And for the first time ever, the report includes a dedicated section on how cr...

Enjoying the content? Let us know your feedback! If you've been watching the cybersecurity space for the last two years, you've noticed something. Almost every breach report, every vendor pitch, every board meeting — AI is in the conversation. Sometimes as the hero, sometimes as the villain, and very often as both at the same time. But here's the uncomfortable truth. Most organisati...

Enjoying the content? Let us know your feedback! In this week's episode, I am joined by my good old friend Shakel Ahmed, a cybersecurity practitioner with over 20 years of experience across some of the most demanding environments in the industry. We are covering the importance of skills and cyber resilience — and this is particularly important for those of you who are responsible for building...

Enjoying the content? Let us know your feedback! Just over a week ago, on 11 March 2026, a cyberattack brought one of the world's largest medical device makers to its knees. Stryker - a $25 billion company that manufactures surgical robots, joint implants and emergency equipment - woke up to find thousands of employee devices wiped clean, its ordering systems offline, and surgeries being resc...

Enjoying the content? Let us know your feedback! Today we are talking about a protocol that is older than most of the people working in IT security right now, a protocol that has powered some of the most catastrophic cyberattacks in history, a protocol that security professionals have been trying to retire for years — and a protocol that is still quietly running in the background of almost every W...

Enjoying the content? Let us know your feedback! It has been a little while since my last update episode, and a lot has been happening in the world of cybersecurity. So today I want to catch you up on three things that have been on my radar and, more importantly, should be on yours. First, we are going to talk about ClickFix — a social engineering attack technique that has exploded in popularity o...

Enjoying the content? Let us know your feedback! In late February 2026, a Meta executive lost her entire email inbox when an AI agent she was using deleted everything despite explicit instructions to confirm before taking action. At the same time, over 40K OpenClaw AI agent instances were found exposed to the internet, vulnerable to complete takeover by any malicious website a developer happened t...

Enjoying the content? Let us know your feedback! Cisco Live is one of the largest networking and security conferences in the world, bringing together thousands of IT and security professionals for a week of learning, innovation, and hands-on experience — and this year, I was there, working as a SOC analyst on the ground -protecting the event. At an event of this scale, thousands of devices and con...

Enjoying the content? Let us know your feedback! On June 27, 2024, millions of people worldwide suddenly couldn't access one of the internet's most popular DNS services—not because of a cyberattack in the traditional sense, but because a single network in Brazil convinced the internet that it owned an IP address that belonged to someone else. This wasn't hacking in the way most peop...

Enjoying the content? Let us know your feedback! On January 17, 2025, the European Union's Digital Operational Resilience Act — known as DORA — became fully enforceable, fundamentally changing how financial institutions across Europe manage cyber and operational risk. One year into enforcement, regulators have designated critical ICT providers, penalties are now being levied, and the January...

Enjoying the content? Let us know your feedback! After sixty years of password resets, forgotten credentials, and phishing attacks, the authentication landscape is finally shifting — and 2026 marks the tipping point. In this episode, we break down what passkeys actually are, why over a billion people have already adopted them, and what the regulatory push from NIST, CISA, and global financial regu...

Enjoying the content? Let us know your feedback! In Part 1 of this series, we explored why Microsoft is finally saying goodbye to NTLM authentication after more than 25 years of service. We discussed NTLM's security weaknesses, from relay attacks to weak cryptography, and touched on Kerberos as the obvious alternative that's been waiting in the wings since ...well....Windows 2000. Today...

Enjoying the content? Let us know your feedback! Today, we're diving into a significant announcement from Microsoft that will fundamentally change how Windows handles authentication. In this two-part series, we'll explore Microsoft's plan to phase out the NT LAN Manager protocol, better known as NTLM, and fully embrace Kerberos authentication in Windows 11. This isn't just a mi...

Enjoying the content? Let us know your feedback! It has been a while since we've done a news update episode. So today, we're diving into two major stories that have been dominating cybersecurity headlines this past week. First, we'll unpack React2Shell, a critical vulnerability that's being called one of the most serious web application flaws in recent memory. Then we'll d...

Enjoying the content? Let us know your feedback! In late 2025, Jaguar Land Rover was hit by a debilitating cyberattack that brought its global production to a near-standstill and ultimately exposed sensitive employee and contractor data, marking one of the most disruptive breaches in the automotive industry in recent memory.** The incident not only shuttered factories and hammered sales, but also...

Enjoying the content? Let us know your feedback! As we've done at the end of each year, it's time to look back at what resonated most with you, our listeners. 2025 brought us some incredible episodes covering everything from fundamental security concepts to cutting-edge AI developments. But three episodes truly stood out—pulling the highest download numbers and sparking the most conversa...

Enjoying the content? Let us know your feedback! Today, we're tackling one of the fastest-emerging threats of 2025—one that's probably already active in your organization right now, whether you know it or not. We're talking about Shadow AI, and the statistics are alarming: That means right now, as you're listening to this, someone in your organization is likely pasting sensitiv...

Enjoying the content? Let us know your feedback! Today we're talking about one of the most dangerous yet underestimated threats in cybersecurity right now. While everyone's worried about ransomware making headlines with million-dollar extortion demands, there's a quieter threat that's actually fueling those attacks. It's called infostealer malware, and in 2024 alone, these...

Enjoying the content? Let us know your feedback! Imagine discovering that your organization is running nearly ten times more applications than your IT team knows about. Imagine learning that two out of every three cloud tools being used by your employees were never approved, never vetted for security, and are completely invisible to your monitoring systems. Now imagine that one-third of all data b...

Enjoying the content? Let us know your feedback! Today, we're lifting the hood on something you interact with dozens of times per day but probably never think about: Windows password security. What actually happens when you type your password and hit Enter? Where does Windows store that password? And perhaps most importantly, why do attackers spend so much time trying to steal password databa...