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Jim Love 100 Episodes Jul 25, 2026

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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AI, Cybersecurity, and Public Policy: Export Controls, Arms Races, and the "New Radium"
AI, Cybersecurity, and Public Policy: Export Controls, Arms Races, and the "New Radium" Jul 25, 2026 34:05 AI, Cybersecurity, and Public Policy: Export Controls, Arms Races, and the "New Radium" On Cyber Security Today (Weekend), the host interviews Pratim Datta, a Kent State University professor and former global consultant, about the past six months of AI and public policy as it intersects with cybersecurity. They discuss Anthropic's "Mythos" and "Fable," the marketing-versus-risk debate around auton
OpenAI's Rogue Agent Hacks Hugging Face, a Claude Cowork Escape, and Microsoft's Very Bad Week
OpenAI's Rogue Agent Hacks Hugging Face, a Claude Cowork Escape, and Microsoft's Very Bad Week Jul 24, 2026 09:47 OpenAI's AI agent hacked Hugging Face, Microsoft 365 melts down, and Anthropic's Claude CoWork sandbox escape Host David Shipley reports that OpenAI admitted an internal ExploitGym test let its GPT-5.6-Saul and a stronger pre-release model bypass safeguards, exploit a proxy zero-day, move laterally, reach open internet, and attack Hugging Face to steal benchmark answers; Hugging Face contained it
WordPress Feeding Frenzy, Another Healthcare Supply Chain Breach, Qillin Targets Palo Alto Bug
WordPress Feeding Frenzy, Another Healthcare Supply Chain Breach, Qillin Targets Palo Alto Bug Jul 22, 2026 11:13 WP2Shell WordPress RCE feeding frenzy, AI agent breaches Hugging Face, Killin hits Palo Alto VPN flaw   This episode covers five major incidents: a chained WordPress exploit dubbed WP2Shell (CVE-2026-6330 and CVE-2026-6137) enabling anonymous remote code execution on stock installs, now seeing tens of thousands of Internet-wide attempts, backdoor admin accounts, and web shell payloads despite forc
Wordpress RCE, New Windows 0-day and Coca-Cola's Fairline ransomed
Wordpress RCE, New Windows 0-day and Coca-Cola's Fairline ransomed Jul 20, 2026 13:07 New Windows zero-day, Coca-Cola's Fairlife hit by ransomware, and a core WordPress RCE David Shipley covers a new Windows zero-day disclosure from "Nightmare Eclipse" called LegacyHive, a local privilege escalation flaw in the Windows User Profile Service that could be weaponized despite a stripped-back public release, as Microsoft investigates and sets a Patch Tuesday record with 570 fixes includ
AI Is Supercharging Cyberattacks | Cybersecurity Today On The Weekend | July 18, 2026
AI Is Supercharging Cyberattacks | Cybersecurity Today On The Weekend | July 18, 2026 Jul 18, 2026 33:56 Artificial intelligence is changing cybersecurity on both sides of the battle. While defenders are adopting AI to improve detection and response, attackers are using it to discover vulnerabilities, automate exploitation, and dramatically accelerate the pace of attacks. In this episode of Cybersecurity Today On The Weekend, host David Shipley speaks with Lionel Litty, Chief Information Security Off
Scattered Spiders sentenced, OpenAI builds an AI that breaks AIs, and Iran leans on ChatGPT
Scattered Spiders sentenced, OpenAI builds an AI that breaks AIs, and Iran leans on ChatGPT Jul 17, 2026 12:02 Two leading Scattered Spider members, Thaila Jubar and Owen Flowers, were sentenced to five years and six months for the 2024 Transport for London hack that knocked 148 systems offline, forced 27,000 password resets, stole customer data, and cost TfL £29 million, with wider losses estimated far higher; U.S. charges against Dubar remain unproven. Investigators also believe Russian hackers were behi
ShareFile explained, healthcare in critical cyber condition and click fix tops malware charts
ShareFile explained, healthcare in critical cyber condition and click fix tops malware charts Jul 15, 2026 13:57 ShareFile emergency explained, a year of Salesforce breaches examined, healthcare cybersecurity in critical condition and click fix goes number one for malware.  David Shipley covers Progress Software's emergency ShareFile shutdown, now tied to a previously unknown high-severity path traversal flaw in Storage Zone Controller 5.x/6.x with patches available (5.12.5 and 6.0.2) and no evidence of prio
ShareFile shutdown, double-agent ransomware negotiator sentenced, Helix uses vishing
ShareFile shutdown, double-agent ransomware negotiator sentenced, Helix uses vishing Jul 13, 2026 10:25 ShareFile shutdown order, a double-agent ransomware negotiator sentenced, and vishing crews raid SharePoint   Progress Software ordered customers running ShareFile Storage Zone Controllers to shut down the Windows servers immediately amid a credible external threat, offering no CVE, threat details, or restoration timeline while noting cloud-only customers aren't affected.   Former ransomware negot
AI Export Controls, FortiBleed, Third-Party Breaches & CISO Burnout | Cybersecurity Today Panel
AI Export Controls, FortiBleed, Third-Party Breaches & CISO Burnout | Cybersecurity Today Panel Jul 11, 2026 01:01:54 Can governments decide who gets access to advanced AI models? Are third-party breaches becoming impossible to control? And why are so many CISOs reaching burnout? In this special Cybersecurity Today Month in Review Panel, host Jim Love is joined by cybersecurity experts Laura Payne, David Shipley, and Mike Kim (Mycroft) to examine the biggest cybersecurity stories and trends from June 2026. The pa
A questionable breach, bad routers at home and at work and AI gives defenders a win
A questionable breach, bad routers at home and at work and AI gives defenders a win Jul 10, 2026 12:42 This episode covers a hacker's claim of stealing 35GB from Accenture—including source code, Azure personal access tokens, RSA keys, and SSH keys—while Accenture calls it an isolated, remediated matter, leaving uncertainty about potential downstream risk to its Fortune 500-heavy client base.   It also highlights a deepfake image of Senator Mitch McConnell debunked after Google's invisible SynthID w
Scattered Spider squashed, Rogue Agent AI flaw, 16 year-old Linux bug and new phish hunts marketers
Scattered Spider squashed, Rogue Agent AI flaw, 16 year-old Linux bug and new phish hunts marketers Jul 8, 2026 13:53 Cybersecurity Today host David Shipley covers how a newly unsealed U.S. complaint tied an alleged Scattered Spider member to a luxury retailer intrusion using a persistent Windows device ID, with prosecutors alleging help-desk social engineering, admin account takeover, data exfiltration, and an $8 million ransom demand; the episode also notes additional Scattered Spider-related guilty pleas in th
AI-Run Ransomware, New Oracle Critical Flaw, NetNut busted
AI-Run Ransomware, New Oracle Critical Flaw, NetNut busted Jul 6, 2026 14:26 AI-Run Ransomware, New Oracle 9.8 Flaw Exploited, NetNut Proxy Network Busted, and Pegasus Hits EU Spyware Investigator   This episode covers researchers' report of "Jade Puffer," the first ransomware attack run end-to-end by an autonomous AI agent, which exploited a patched Langflow RCE (CVE-2025-3248) but showed flaws like weak AES-128 ECB encryption and an unusable key.   It also warns of activ

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