Cybersecurity Today Weekend with Carey Frey, VP and Chief Security Officer at TELUS
Release Date: 02/28/2026
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...
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Cyber Security Today Special Report: Attack from Iran
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This includes our regular Wednesday/Thursday segment but with an update from this breaking story on the attack on a large US medical company.
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Fake Claude Code Installs, Arpa Phishing, Iranian and Russian Teams Mount Cyber Retaliation
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Fake Claude Code Installs, Arpa Phishing, Zombie ZIP Malware Evasion, and Iran/Israel Cyber Retaliation This episode covers four major security stories: the “InstaFix” campaign using Google sponsored ads and cloned Claude Code install pages to trick developers into pasting terminal commands that deploy the TeraStealer credential-stealing malware; a phishing technique abusing the special-use .arpa domain and IPv6 reverse DNS to evade email and domain-based defenses, using attacker-controlled DNS zones, traffic distribution systems, and lures like surveys and account notices; the “Zombie...
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Coruna iOS Exploit Kit Goes Mass-Market: Cybersecurity Today for March 9, 2026 with David Shipley
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Coruna iOS Exploit Kit Goes Mass-Market, FBI Wiretap Platform Breach Probe, Windows Terminal ClickFix, and Iran-War Cyber Escalation This episode covers several major cybersecurity developments: Google’s Threat Intelligence Group details Coruna, a sophisticated iOS exploit kit with 23 exploits and multiple chains affecting iOS 13–17.2.1, shifting from targeted surveillance use to cryptocurrency-scam distribution and a PlasmaLoader payload aimed at stealing wallet data. The FBI is investigating suspicious activity involving its Digital Collection System Network used to support wiretaps and...
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Cybersecurity Today Month in Review: World In Turmoil
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Cybersecurity Today Month in Review: Iran Conflict Cyber Spillover, IoT Cameras, AI Hacking Tools, and Resilience Planning In this weekend month-in-review episode, host Jim Love and panelists David Shipley, Laura Payne, Neil Bisson, and Chris “CJ” Johnson discuss cyber and infrastructure impacts tied to the US/Israel–Iran conflict, including reported compromise of traffic camera networks for targeting, Iran’s defensive internet shutdown, propaganda via a hacked prayer app, and GPS/AIS spoofing that misdirected ships in the Strait of Hormuz, raising oil and helium supply-chain concerns....
info_outlineIdentity, AI Agents, and the Session Token Time Bomb | Carey Frey (CSO, TELUS) on Cybersecurity Today
In this Cybersecurity Today weekend edition, David Shipley interviews Carey Frey, Chief Security Officer at TELUS, about the evolution of identity security and why it’s a growing risk in the age of generative and agentic AI. Frey recounts his career from Canada’s Communications Security Establishment to leading TELUS’s internal security and managed cybersecurity services, then explains how convenience-driven identity decisions led from PKI’s unrealized promise to passwords, bearer/session tokens, and today’s widespread session cookie theft. He describes lessons from TELUS’s deployment of FIDO2 phishing-resistant tokens, the dangers of long-lived SSO tokens across SaaS ecosystems, and how agentic “auto-browse” could amplify harm via the “lethal trifecta” and ephemeral agents with poor auditability. Frey highlights the Syne/SignNet CISO Identity Handbook and calls for stronger cryptographic roots of trust, proof-based tokens, re-authentication across trust domains, and fine-grained delegation guardrails.
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
00:00 Sponsor Message
00:24 Weekend Edition Intro
00:32 Meet Carey Frey
02:07 Carey’s Cyber Origin Story
03:47 Telus Security Two Hats
06:22 Identity’s Broken Legacy
08:43 Why PKI Didn’t Win
11:25 Passkeys Missed Moment
14:10 SSO Tokens Surprise
19:50 Session Theft Reality
23:18 Agentic AI Stakes
24:17 Building Identity Playbook
25:24 Identity Maturity Model
25:49 Fixing OAuth and SAML
27:00 Industry Call to Action
27:37 Where to Find the Handbook
28:06 Not a Vendor Pitch
30:13 Agentic AI Identity Gaps
31:30 Auto Browse Threat Scenario
33:12 Lethal Trifecta Explained
34:31 Ephemeral Agents and Forensics
37:08 Supply Chain Agent Malware
38:20 Crypto Roots of Trust
39:35 Proof Tokens and Reauth
40:17 Delegation Guardrails
42:34 Regulation or Market Forces
44:25 Practical Risk Decisions
46:20 Wrap Up and Next Resources
48:00 Sponsor and Closing Credits