Microsoft Exchange Online Outage, Pokémon Go Data Reused, and Prediction Market Threats

Microsoft Exchange Online Outage, Former Uber CEO Kalanick’s Texas Move, Pokémon Go Data Reused for Training Delivery Robots, and Prediction Market Threats Hashtag Trending 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 […]

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 […]

Iran Publishes Lst of US Tech and Banking Targets: Hashtag Trending for Friday, March 13, 2026

Geopolitical Cyber Targets, Atlassian Layoffs, AI Energy Costs, Gemini in Workspace, and Chatbot Safety Gaps Jim Love reports that Iranian state-aligned media published a list of U.S. tech and banking firms described as legitimate cyber targets, signaling escalating geopolitical risk to corporate networks, with a recent disruption at medical tech company Stryker noted but unattributed. […]

Amazon Tackles Outages Caused By AI Coding: Hashtag Trending March 11, 2026

Amazon Probes AI-Coding Outages, Nvidia & Meta Push AI Agent Platforms, and Palantir-Powered Office Seating Jim Love covers Amazon’s investigation into recent outages potentially tied to AI-assisted coding, including incidents affecting Amazon’s shopping site and an AWS cost calculator service, and new rules requiring junior and mid-level engineers to get senior approval before deploying AI-assisted […]

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 […]

Microsoft Brings Anthropic’s Claude In To Copilot: Hashtag Trending, Top Tech News, March 10, 2026

Microsoft Brings Anthropic Into Copilot, AI Backlash Grows, and Anthropic Flags Jobs at Risk Microsoft signals Copilot adoption challenges—15 million paid Microsoft 365 Copilot seats versus 450+ million Microsoft 365 commercial seats—by adding Anthropic models via the Frontier program and bringing Anthropic’s co-work technology into Copilot, positioning Copilot as “model diverse.” The episode also covers […]