Exploited Microsoft Vulnerabilities, Phishing Tactics & Romance Scams: Cybersecurity Today
Release Date: 02/13/2026
RSAC Recap: Agentic AI and Interview With Commvault CISO Bill O'Connell
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RSAC Recap: Agentic AI Takes Over, Security Funding Shifts, and Why CISOs Must Focus on Resilience Cybersecurity Today would like to thank Meter for their support in bringing you this podcast. Meter delivers a complete networking stack, wired, wireless and cellular in one integrated solution that's built for performance and scale. You can find them at Meter.com/cst Jim Love and co-host David Shipley recap the RSA Conference in San Francisco, noting that “zero trust” marketing has faded and “agentic AI” (especially “agentic SOC”) dominated vendor messaging. David...
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Anonymous Tip System Breach May Expose Tipsters
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Anonymous Tip System Breach Exposes Millions of Records, Google Warns Q-Day by 2029, and New AI Documentation Supply-Chain Risks Cybersecurity Today would like to thank Meter for their support in bringing you this podcast. Meter delivers a complete networking stack, wired, wireless and cellular in one integrated solution that's built for performance and scale. You can find them at Meter.com/cst Jim Love reports that a breach at P3 Global Intel, whose tip-submission systems are used by police, government agencies, and schools, allegedly exposed over 8 million submissions including...
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RSAC Presenter Says "Time to Kill One of Cybersecurity's Most Overworked Terms"
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RSAC: Retiring “APT,” FCC’s US-Made Router Ban, Zoom Call Scraping, Iran-Targeting Wiper, and Cyber Terrorism Insurance From RSAC 2026, host David Shipley highlights ESET researcher Robert Lipowsky’s argument to retire the overused “advanced persistent threat” label and instead describe actors by motivation and activity, noting blurred lines between nation-state and criminal tooling. He also reports RSAC vendor trends (zero trust fading, “agentic AI” everywhere) and standout booth themes. In Washington, the FCC bans authorization of any new Wi‑Fi router models not made in the...
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Startup Accused Of Helping Fake Privacy and Security Audits
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Compliance Startup Audit-Faking Claims, Trivy Supply-Chain Backdoor, Russia Targets Signal/WhatsApp, and Iran-Linked Stryker Disruption Cybersecurity Today would like to thank Meter for their support in bringing you this podcast. Meter delivers a complete networking stack, wired, wireless and cellular in one integrated solution that's built for performance and scale. You can find them at Meter.com/cst This episode covers allegations that Y Combinator-backed compliance startup Delve helped customers fake privacy and security audits by generating fabricated evidence that auditors...
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The Fundamental Mistake in Cybersecurity Risk Management
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Cybersecurity Isn’t Managing Risk—It’s Managing Threats... And That's the Problem Host David Shipley speaks with Jeff Gardiner, a former university CISO and now at Morgan Stanley, about Gardiner’s doctoral research arguing that cybersecurity has structurally misclassified “risk management” as threat management. Gardiner explains that real risk is an expected loss calculation (impact × likelihood), while many cybersecurity frameworks and training emphasize vulnerabilities, exploitability, and system configuration without likelihood or business impact. He describes examples...
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FBI Seizes Iran-Linked Handala Leak Site After Stryker Intune Wipe Attack: Cybersecurity Today
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FBI Seizes Iran-Linked Handala Leak Site After Stryker Intune Wipe Attack; Apple iPhone Exploit Patch; North Korean Fake IT Workers Grow Cybersecurity Today would like to thank Meter for their support in bringing you this podcast. Meter delivers a complete networking stack, wired, wireless and cellular in one integrated solution that's built for performance and scale. You can find them at Meter.com/cst The episode reports that the FBI has seized the data leak site used by the Iran-linked hacktivist group Handala, which has been widely linked to the Stryker attack where attackers...
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Another Medical Device Firm Hit
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Medical Device Breaches, Anti-Scam Pledge Scrutiny, AI Font Trick, and Iran-Linked Cyber Updates. Cybersecurity Today would like to thank Meter for their support in bringing you this podcast. Meter delivers a complete networking stack, wired, wireless and cellular in one integrated solution that's built for performance and scale. You can find them at Meter.com/cst The episode covers several cybersecurity stories: Intuitive Surgical disclosed a March 12 phishing-led intrusion where stolen credentials enabled access to its internal administrative network and data theft...
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Notorious Hacker Group "The Comm," Operation Synergia Takedown, Stryker Cyberattack Update & More
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Alleged Canadian ‘The Comm’ Hacker Arrested, Interpol’s Operation Synergia Takedown, Stryker Cyberattack Update and more.. Cybersecurity Today would like to thank Meter for their support in bringing you this podcast. Meter delivers a complete networking stack, wired, wireless and cellular in one integrated solution that's built for performance and scale. You can find them at Meter.com/cst Host David Shipley covers new details on the alleged takedown of “Waifu,” a Canadian hacker tied to the cybercrime group The Com, after a harassment campaign against investigator Allison...
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AI Anxiety: Cybersecurity Today with Special Guest Krish Banerjee, Managing Director (Partner) & Canada Lead - Data & AI - Accenture
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Gemini in Google Workspace, Agentic AI, and Managing AI Anxiety (with Accenture’s Krish Banerjee) Cybersecurity Today would like to thank Meter for their support in bringing you this podcast. Meter delivers a complete networking stack, wired, wireless and cellular in one integrated solution that's built for performance and scale. You can find them at Meter.com/cst In a special edition of Project Synapse shared with Cybersecurity Today, host Jim Love and co-host John Pinard (a VP and CSO at a Canadian financial institution) speak with Krish Banerjee, Accenture’s managing...
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AI Agent Hacks McKinsey Chatbot in 2 Hours
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AI Agent Hacks McKinsey Chatbot in 2 Hours, NPM Phantom Raven, Router Malware & Trojaned AI Models This episode covers how researchers at CodeWall used an autonomous AI security agent to gain read/write access to McKinsey’s internal chatbot Lilli database in about two hours by chaining exposed APIs and an SQL injection, potentially exposing 46.5 million chats, 728,000 files, 57,000 accounts, and 95 system prompts, with McKinsey saying the issues were fixed and no unauthorized access was found. It also reports on the Phantom Raven supply-chain campaign that published 88 malicious NPM...
info_outlineIn this episode of Cybersecurity Today with host Jim Love, we discuss six critical exploited Microsoft vulnerabilities, new phishing tactics using your own servers, and a zero-click vulnerability in Claude's code desktop extensions. We also explore trends in modern romance scams highlighting the younger, tech-savvy adult targets. Tune in for expert insights and practical tips to stay secure. Special thanks to Meter for their support.
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00:00 Introduction and Sponsor Message
00:45 Microsoft Vulnerabilities: A Growing Concern
02:38 Phishing Attacks Using Your Own Servers
04:16 Zero-Click Vulnerability in Claude AI
06:25 Romance Scams: Not Just Targeting the Elderly
09:14 Conclusion and Weekend Edition Teaser