RSAC Presenter Says "Time to Kill One of Cybersecurity's Most Overworked Terms"
Release Date: 03/25/2026
RSAC Presenter Says "Time to Kill One of Cybersecurity's Most Overworked Terms"
Cybersecurity Today
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
Cybersecurity Today
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
Cybersecurity Today
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
Cybersecurity Today
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
Cybersecurity Today
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
Cybersecurity Today
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
Cybersecurity Today
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...
info_outlineRSAC: 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 United States, citing supply-chain risk and attacks like Volt Flax and Salt Typhoon, impacting an industry largely manufacturing abroad unless exemptions are granted with plans to reshore. The episode details Webinar TV allegedly joining public Zoom links to record calls and publish AI-generated podcast recaps, and a Kubernetes-targeting campaign linked to the Trivy supply-chain attack that deploys an Iran-checking wiper. Finally, Treasury seeks comments on expanding the terrorism risk insurance backstop (TRIP) to cover cyber losses.
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 Meter Intro
00:18 Headlines Preview
00:58 Retiring The APT Label
02:51 RSAC Floor Trends
05:08 FCC Router Ban
06:43 Zoom Calls Turned Podcasts
09:29 Iran Targeting Wiper
10:57 Cyber Terrorism Insurance Debate
13:15 Wrap Up And Thanks
13:44 Sponsor Meter Outro