Cybersecurity Today Bots, BioShocks, and Breaches
Teams cracks down on meeting bots, AI guardrails get bypassed, FortiBleed fuels ransomware, and Nissan confirms PeopleSoft breach Microsoft rolls out a new Teams admin policy, “Manage External Bots and Their Access to Meetings,” to detect third‑party bots, hold them in the lobby with labels, and require organizer approval, with future allow lists, full blocks, […]
US puts $10m bounty on Russian hackers, new phish hunts hotels, Supreme Court reins in geofencing
US Puts $10M Bounty on Russian Hackers, Supreme Court Limits Geofence Warrants, New phishing campaign targets hotels, AI Coding Agents Tricked into Malware and Canada’s Electronic Spies Go After Ransomware Gangs. The episode covers the US State Department’s up to $10 million reward for information on Russia-linked hacker groups UNC 5792 and UNC 4221 tied […]
US Frontier AI Restrictions
US Loosens Anthropic Claude Mythos Access, Unpatchable iPhone Exploit Emerges, and CISO Burnout Drives Fractional Shift Washington granted a partial reprieve allowing Anthropic’s Claude Mythos to be released to more than 100 approved U.S. firms and institutions after export controls paused Mythos and the more restricted Fable 5, with access still limited to vetted American […]
Car Dealerships – Prime Cyber Targets: Fraud, Resilience, and Security Leadership: Jennifer Hutton
Cybersecurity Today would like to thank Material Security for sponsoring this podcast. Material Security provides faster, more complete detection and response for email, identity, and data threats inside Google Workspace and Microsoft 365. You can contact them at material[dot]security. On Cybersecurity Today on the Weekend, the host speaks with Jennifer Hutton, a cybersecurity leader in […]
Project Synapse – The Week In AI from Hashtag Trending
Project Synapse: Blind Spots, ADHD Thinking, and the Data Center Backlash (Plus Chips, Open Source, and China’s Video AI) The hosts discuss using ChatGPT with memory to identify personal blind spots, concluding that multitasking is a myth and linking attention styles (process vs options) and ADHD tendencies to starting many projects without finishing. They compare […]
Malware that Gaslights AI
Mac Malware Gaslights AI, Major Info-Stealer Takedown, OpenAI’s Patch the Planet, and FortiBleed Fallout Mac malware called “Gaslight,” attributed to North Korea-aligned actors, plants fake system messages designed to derail AI-based analysis while stealing data and exfiltrating it via a Telegram bot. Microsoft and Europol disrupted the Amadey and SteelC info-stealer ecosystem by seizing/shuttering infrastructure […]
AI Keeps Memory Prices High, IBM’s NanoStack Breakthrough, Google AI Agents & Data Center Backlash
AI is changing more than software. It’s reshaping the economics, engineering and politics of computing. On Hashtag Trending for Friday, June 26, 2026, Jim Love examines why Micron believes memory prices could remain historically high for years—not because of manufacturing costs, supply chain problems or raw materials, but because AI demand is so strong that […]
IBM’s $10B Quantum Bet, Musk’s Trillionaire Title, NVIDIA’s Water Fix & AI Politics
IBM is making one of the biggest bets in its history, investing $10 billion in an effort to build a practical quantum computer by 2029. Jim Love looks at why the company that once stunned the world with Watson’s Jeopardy victory is now wagering its future on quantum computing instead of competing head-to-head in the […]
SpaceX Slips, Claude Joins Slack, and the Growing Revolt Against AI Data Centers
SpaceX investors are getting a reality check. After soaring from its $150 IPO price to roughly $220, SpaceX shares have fallen back below their IPO level, raising questions about valuation, debt, governance, and whether the AI boom can justify the enormous capital spending now expected from leading technology companies. Meanwhile, Anthropic is pushing AI deeper […]
Internet Outages, Claude Failure, China Chips and the Rise of Robot Workers
Jim Love reports on the top technology stories for June 23, 2026. A severed optical fibre cable triggered a major internet outage that started with Reddit and spread across a wide range of online services. At nearly the same time, Anthropic’s Claude AI suffered a significant outage, highlighting how dependent businesses have become on cloud […]