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Meta’s AI models join the sandbox escape club. China’s telecom footprint in the U.S. may be larger than expected. The White House keeps its AI safety playbook under wraps. AI coding tools introduce new GitHub risks. ENISA expands its CVE role. A critical Paperclip flaw enables code execution. Crypto wallet fears fuel phishing attacks. Researchers uncover a backdoor in Chinese-made routers. The Snowflake hacker pleads guilty. Our guest is Dustin Childs, Head of Threat Awareness of TrendAI’s Zero Day Initiative, discussing the new Patch Tuesday era. AI takes your word for it.
TranscriptThe White House lays out its AI strategy at Black Hat. Researchers spotlight rogue AI behavior. CISA warns of an actively exploited N-able flaw. TP-Link patches 15 Omada vulnerabilities. Apple fights the UK’s iCloud access order. The AI gray market expands. A Massachusetts healthcare breach hits more than 300,000 people. Lawmakers push to extend protections for OPM breach victims. Our guest is Cal Al-Dhubaib, Principal Technologist at Rubrik, who wonders if your security team is solving the wrong problem. With elections, don’t trust AI to tell you the whole story.
TranscriptNew Shai-Hulud campaign compromises popular npm packages. Easterly says small municipalities shouldn’t have to fend for themselves. Chinese threat groups accelerate exploits. Samsung bans smart TV apps with residential proxies. Hackers breach a Liechtenstein banking database. Swiss government IT agency hit in suspected SharePoint Attack. Microsoft’s bug bounty program awards record payouts. Researchers expose privilege boundary flaw in AI-driven CI/CD workflows. Roberta Anderson, Air Force veteran and CISO at Onterris is sharing her "Breaking the Firewall" book. And, bug hunting turns into bug sorting.
TranscriptCyberattacks hit U.S. water systems. CISA tackles open source security. China’s surveillance machine is exposed. Hotel Wi-Fi gets riskier. Healthcare and police data spill online. Fake SQLite vulnerabilities fool security databases. Monday business briefing. Our guest is Tim Starks from CyberScoop discussing the White House's quantum aspirations. AI is the hottest thing on campus.
TranscriptAnthropic says Claude escaped the sandbox three times, while a judge questions the Pentagon’s blacklist. The EU launches an AI enforcement team, the FTC targets a telehealth firm’s tracking pixels, and a WordPress backdoor is stopped just in time. CareCloud discloses a major data breach, a stealthy cryptominer hides in plain sight, AiTM phishing surges against law firms, and Finland severs one more digital link to Russia. Our guest is Yan Shoshitaishvili, Associate Professor, Arizona State University, previewing his Black Hat 2026 keynote "Vulnerability Research in the Agentic Age." AI scammers may deserve a promotion.
