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CyberTitan Champions: Inside Canada's National High School Cybersecurity Competition (and CyberPatriot)

Cybersecurity Today on the Weekend interviews the winning Canadian CyberTitan team ("S-ores"/a regex-based name) along with coach Phil, educator Tim, and CyberTitan manager Sheena to explain how CyberTitan (run by ICTC) connects to the international CyberPatriot program. They describe the competition mechanics—securing compromised Windows, Windows Server, and Linux virtual machines for points, plus Cisco Packet Tracer networking—and how Canadian teams compete through CyberPatriot before the top ...

Jun 13, 2026•37 min

Anthropic Warns AI Risks Are Real, RoguePlanet Zero-Day Drops, Crypto Laundering Takedown

Anthropic is calling for governments to have the authority to stop deployment of advanced AI systems that pose unacceptable risks. CEO Dario Amodei points to the company's Mythos cybersecurity model as proof that AI has become a matter of national and strategic consequence, warning that cyber risks may soon be followed by biological and autonomy risks. Meanwhile, security researcher Nightmare Eclipse has released RoguePlanet, a new Windows Defender zero-day that reportedly works against fully pa...

Jun 12, 2026•9 min

AI Worms, Hacks, and Insurance Shifts

Instagram AI Support Hack Hits 20,225 Accounts; AI Worm 'Hades' Lies to Security Tools; Chrome Zero-Day Patch Host David Shipley reports Meta says 20,225 Instagram accounts were hijacked after an AI support tool was tricked into sending reset links to attacker-controlled emails, with only MFA-protected accounts resisting. Step Security details a new Miasma-derived worm wave called Hades that targets config files for 14 AI coding tools, can inject instructions to hijack assistants, lies to AI sec...

Jun 10, 2026•10 min

Claude Outage Data Leak, Microsoft GitHub Worm, IBM Hack, M Instagram Takeovers, Canada's Bill C-8

TClaude Outage Data Leak Fears, Microsoft GitHub Worm, IBM Hack Allegations, Meta AI Instagram Takeovers, and Canada's Bill C-8 David Shipley reports that Anthropic's Claude suffered a roughly two-hour outage affecting models including Opus, during which a user alleged receiving another customer's conversation; Anthropic says it has no evidence of a data leak and is investigating. A Team PCP self-spreading worm, Miasma, infected 73 Microsoft GitHub repositories across four accounts and now trigg...

Jun 08, 2026•10 min

Cybersecurity Today Month in Review: Microsoft Zero-Days, AI Deregulation

Host Jim Love and panelists David Shipley, Laura Payne, and Jeff Williams discuss a researcher ("Chaotic/Nightmare Eclipse") publicly disclosing multiple Windows zero-days affecting components including Defender and BitLocker, frustration with Microsoft's vulnerability disclosure process, and backlash to Microsoft's initially threatening tone before it was partially walked back; the panel debates responsible disclosure, the need for researcher support/organization, transparency vs liability, and...

Jun 06, 2026•1 hr 5 min

New HTTP/2 Bomb Attack, Trump's AI Security Reviews, Android Zero-Day & The Patching Crisis

A newly disclosed attack called HTTP/2 Bomb can crash major web servers in seconds using a single computer and a modest internet connection. Researchers say the attack combines two known techniques into a powerful memory-exhaustion exploit affecting widely used platforms including Apache, NGINX, Microsoft IIS, and Envoy. The attack also highlights a growing trend in cybersecurity research: the use of artificial intelligence to uncover dangerous combinations of existing vulnerabilities. The episo...

Jun 05, 2026•12 min

Carnival Data Breach Exposes Millions as Microsoft Backs Down on Researcher Threats

Cybersecurity Today for June 2, 2026. Microsoft has backed away from its hard-line stance against vulnerability researchers after widespread criticism from the security community. The dispute began after independent researcher Nightmare Eclipse published proof-of-concept code for unpatched Microsoft vulnerabilities, triggering a public debate over responsible disclosure, zero-days, and researcher relations. Cybersecurity Today would like to thank Material Security for sponsoring this podcast. Ma...

Jun 03, 2026•10 min

Microsoft Threatens Security Researcher | Palo Alto VPN Exploited | Google Insider Trading Case

Microsoft's dispute with a former security researcher takes a dramatic turn as the company raises the possibility of criminal action over the publication of proof-of-concept code for unpatched zero-day vulnerabilities. David Shipley examines the escalating conflict between Microsoft and "Nightmare Eclipse," the criticism from prominent security researchers including Kevin Beaumont and Katie Moussouris, and what the controversy could mean for the future of vulnerability disclosure. Cybersecurity ...

Jun 01, 2026•12 min

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