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Cybersecurity Today

Updates on the latest cybersecurity threats to businesses, data breach disclosures, and how you can secure your firm in an increasingly risky time.
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Electric Vehicles and EV Security - Steve Visconti CEO of Xiid Corporation with David Shipley

EV Charging Infrastructure Security: How Hackers Could Disrupt Chargers, Networks, and the Grid 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 this holiday weekend edition of Cybersecurity Today, Jim Love introduces David Shipley's interview with Steve Visconti, CEO of Xiid ...

Apr 03, 202627 min

Cisco Breached: Source Code Stolen - Cybersecurity Today

Cisco Source Code Stolen in Trivy Fallout, Axios Supply Chain Attack, and Active Exploitation of Fortinet and Citrix Flaws David Shipley reports multiple major security incidents: attackers used credentials stolen in the Trivy supply-chain attack via a malicious GitHub action to breach Cisco's internal development environment, clone 300+ GitHub repos, steal source code (including AI products) and AWS keys, and impact customer-related code; Cisco contained the breach, re-imaged systems, and rotat...

Apr 01, 202615 min

Russian State Hackers Go After IoS Devices

Mac Malware 'Infinity Stealer,' DarkSword iOS Exploits, China Telecom Espionage & TeamTNT Supply Chain Hits 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 David Shipley reports from Seoul on major threats: Malwarebytes details Infinity Stealer, a new macOS info-stealer deli...

Mar 30, 202620 min

RSAC Recap: Agentic AI and Interview With Commvault CISO Bill O'Connell

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 "agen...

Mar 28, 202641 min

Anonymous Tip System Breach May Expose Tipsters

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, go...

Mar 27, 202611 min

RSAC Presenter Says "Time to Kill One of Cybersecurity's Most Overworked Terms"

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 Was...

Mar 25, 202615 min

Startup Accused Of Helping Fake Privacy and Security Audits

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 custom...

Mar 23, 202613 min

The Fundamental Mistake in Cybersecurity Risk Management

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 sys...

Mar 21, 202650 min

FBI Seizes Iran-Linked Handala Leak Site After Stryker Intune Wipe Attack: 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 hacktiv...

Mar 20, 20269 min

Another Medical Device Firm Hit

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 credent...

Mar 18, 202614 min

Notorious Hacker Group "The Comm," Operation Synergia Takedown, Stryker Cyberattack Update & More

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 cybe...

Mar 16, 202618 min

AI Anxiety: Cybersecurity Today with Special Guest Krish Banerjee, Managing Director (Partner) & Canada Lead - Data & AI - Accenture

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 Can...

Mar 14, 202658 min

AI Agent Hacks McKinsey Chatbot in 2 Hours

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 foun...

Mar 13, 202613 min

Fake Claude Code Installs, Arpa Phishing, Iranian and Russian Teams Mount Cyber Retaliation

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 ...

Mar 11, 202616 min

Coruna iOS Exploit Kit Goes Mass-Market: Cybersecurity Today for March 9, 2026 with David Shipley

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 s...

Mar 09, 202620 min

Cybersecurity Today Month in Review: World In Turmoil

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 t...

Mar 07, 20261 hr 12 min

Wikipedia Hit By JavaScript Worm, ICE Contractor Data Base Leaked and more...

Wikipedia JavaScript Worm, ICE Contractor Data Leak Claim, and Leak Base Takedown Wikipedia admins contained a self-propagating JavaScript worm that spread via infected user script files, executing in logged-in editors' browsers and using authenticated sessions to copy itself into other scripts, sometimes affecting global scripts; administrators restricted edits, reverted and suppressed changes, replaced compromised scripts, and continue investigating the originating account. A hacktivist group ...

Mar 06, 20269 min

AI Driven Warfare

AI-Driven Warfare, Open-Source Attack Tooling, CISA Shakeups, Healthcare Ransomware, and GPS Jamming Risks Host David Shipley covers reports that hacked Tehran traffic cameras and an AI-powered targeting system helped a joint U.S.-Israeli operation ("Epic Fury") track and strike Iran's leadership, highlighting the growing role of compromised infrastructure and AI in modern conflict. Researchers also link the open-source toolkit Cyber Strike AI to automated attacks against Fortinet FortiGate devi...

Mar 04, 202617 min

CISA Leadership Shakeup, OpenClaw Hijack, Robot Vacuums and More

OpenClaw AI Agent Hijack, CISA Leadership Shakeup, Iran Cyber Campaign, Air-Gap Malware, and Robot Vacuum Flaw Jim Love covers multiple cybersecurity stories: Oasis Security revealed "ClawJacked," a high-severity OpenClaw AI agent framework flaw caused by missing rate limiting on the local gateway, enabling malicious web pages to brute-force passwords via WebSockets, register a trusted device, and take over agents; OpenClaw patched it within 24 hours and users are urged to update to version 2020...

Mar 02, 202614 min

Cybersecurity Today Weekend with Carey Frey, VP and Chief Security Officer at TELUS

Identity, 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 conve...

Feb 28, 202649 min

Cisco SD-WAN Bug Actively Exploited

Cisco SD-WAN Bug Actively Exploited, MCP Azure Takeover Demo, CarGurus Data Leak, and Secret Service Scam Recovery Host Jim Love covers four cybersecurity stories: CSA warns a critical Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN controller vulnerability (CVE-2026-20127) has been exploited since 2023, enabling authentication bypass and rogue peering sessions, and orders U.S. federal agencies to inventory systems, collect logs and forensic artifacts, hunt for compromise, and apply Cisco's fixes by 5:00 PM ET on Februar...

Feb 27, 202610 min

Discord Finds Age Identification May Have Privacy Concerns

Discord Drops Persona Age Verification, SolarWinds Serv-U Critical RCEs, Splunk Windows Priv Esc, and Smart TV Screenshot Surveillance Lawsuits In this episode of Cybersecurity Today, host Jim Love covers Discord ending its age-verification experiment with Persona after user backlash and researcher findings that Persona's front-end code suggested up to 269 verification checks, including watch list screening and risk scoring, amid already-thin trust following an earlier breach that exposed govern...

Feb 25, 20269 min

Amazon Kiro Prod Disruption, Claude Code Security, Salt Typhoon Warning, and Youth Radicalization

AI-Accelerated FortiGate Breaches, Amazon Kiro Prod Disruption, Claude Code Security, Salt Typhoon Warning, and Youth Radicalization Risks Episode of Cybersecurity Today (hosted by David Shipley) covering: a Russian-speaking hacker using AI-written automation tools to breach 600+ Fortinet FortiGate firewalls across 55 countries by exploiting weak passwords and exposed management interfaces without MFA, with advice to lock down edge management access, enforce MFA, and strengthen password policies...

Feb 23, 202619 min

Agentic AI Security Is Broken and How To Fix It: Ido Shlomo, Co-founder and CTO of Token Security

Jim Love discusses how rapid adoption of agentic AI is repeating the industry pattern of shipping technology without security, citing issues like vulnerabilities in Anthropic's MCP and insecure open-source agent tools. He interviews Ido Shlomo, co-founder and CTO of Token Security, who argues AI agents are fundamentally hard to secure because they are non-deterministic, have infinite input/output space, and often require broad permissions to be useful. Cybersecurity Today would like to thank Met...

Feb 21, 202645 min

CISA Orders Emergency Patch for Actively Exploited Dell Flaw;

CISA Orders Emergency Patch for Actively Exploited Dell Flaw; Texas Sues TP-Link; Massive ID Verification Data Leak; SSA Database Leak Allegations Host Jim Love covers four cybersecurity stories: 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 CISA ordered federal civilian agenc...

Feb 20, 20269 min

OpenClaw: Info Stealers Take Your Soul

Info Stealers Target OpenClaw, a Robot Vacuum API Flaw Exposes Thousands, Best Buy Fraud Shows Zero Trust Context, and Canada Goose Data Leaked via Supplier The episode covers multiple security incidents and lessons. Hudson Rock details how an info stealer malware infection can vacuum OpenClaw data, including authentication tokens, master keys, device private cryptographic keys, and the agent-defining soul.md file that can reveal a "mirror" of a user's life; the attack was not targeted, raising ...

Feb 18, 202611 min

BeyondTrust Zero-Day Exploited,

This episode covers multiple active threats and security changes. It warns of an actively exploited critical BeyondTrust remote access vulnerability (CVE-2026-1731, CVSS 9.9) enabling pre-authentication remote code execution in Remote Support and Privileged Remote Access, noting SaaS was patched while on-prem deployments require urgent manual updates and may already be compromised. Microsoft details an evolution of the ClickFix social engineering technique where victims are tricked into running ...

Feb 16, 202611 min

The Dark Side of Valentine's Day: AI Romance Scams | Cybersecurity Today

This special Valentine's Day episode of Cybersecurity Today examines romance scams (often called pig butchering) and how fraudsters exploit trust, vulnerability, and loneliness. Host Jim Love speaks with McAfee Head of Threat Research Abhishek Karnik about new findings showing the scale and demographics of these scams, including widespread encounters with fake or AI-generated profiles, frequent financial solicitations, and that men are also heavily impacted. Cybersecurity Today would like to tha...

Feb 15, 20261 hr 10 min

The Dark Side of Valentine's Day: AI Romance Scams | Cybersecurity Today

This special Valentine's Day episode of Cybersecurity Today examines romance scams (often called pig butchering) and how fraudsters exploit trust, vulnerability, and loneliness. Host Jim Love speaks with McAfee Head of Threat Research Abhishek Karnik about new findings showing the scale and demographics of these scams, including widespread encounters with fake or AI-generated profiles, frequent financial solicitations, and that men are also heavily impacted. Cybersecurity Today would like to tha...

Feb 14, 20261 hr 10 min
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