⚠️ THIS IS AN AI-GENERATED NEWS BRIEFING. IT IS BEST-EFFORTS AND MAY CONTAIN ERRORS, OMISSIONS OR INACCURACIES. TREAT IT AS A SIGNAL, NOT A SOURCE OF RECORD - VERIFY ANYTHING YOU INTEND TO ACT ON AGAINST THE ORIGINAL REPORTING. A sharp weekday briefing on the cybersecurity, AI and tech news that actually matters - built for security and incident-response leads who need to walk into the office already across the day's threats. Each edition runs through the developments worth your attention: actively-exploited vulnerabilities, live campaigns and breaches, the AI and governance stories shaping the field, cyber policy on the move, and the New Zealand and APAC news the big international outlets tend to skip. The lens is always practical - could this land on my desk, and if so, what do I need to know? Mondays run a little longer to sweep up anything that broke over the weekend. No waffle, no filler, with a New Zealand eye on the wider world. Hosts Alice and Sam come at every story from different angles, and that's the point. Sam's the reformed practitioner - years on the ops floor and the 3am bridge call - so he reads a story for what's actually exploitable and whether it's a real fire or just noise. Alice comes from the governance and systems side, so she's asking what it means for how an organisation is run and why it happened in the first place. They trade the running order as equals, react to each other genuinely, and the warmth between them is real rather than performed - two knowledgeable colleagues comparing notes, not a host and a sidekick. If you already listen to the likes of the CyberWire, Risky Business, or the SANS Internet Storm Center, you'll feel at home here: the same commitment to signal over noise, pitched for a listener who runs security operations day to day and reads from Aotearoa. (Powered by Jellypod)
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Episode #1
Zero Days to Ransomware in Four Hours
Aug 20, 202619 minS0
<p>This episode breaks down the accelerating pace of cyber extortion, from zero-day ransomware exploitation and four-hour intrusion chains to the case for automated identity containment. It also covers major supply chain and platform risks, including AI-driven bug hunting, EDR reverse engineering, and npm’s shift to disabling install scripts by default.</p>
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