Darnley's Cyber Café is your go-to cybersecurity and IT security podcast, available everywhere you listen. Each episode, we brew up fresh conversations on cybersecurity, IT security, business, technology, and the geopolitical forces shaping our digital world: from data breaches and ransomware to privacy, surveillance, and emerging threats. Whether you're commuting, at your desk, or just unwinding after a long day, there's always a seat at the café. Pull up a chair, pour your java — not script — and join the conversation that keeps the digitally aware one step ahead. Follow and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, and never miss an episode. The café is always open and knowledge is your power.
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Signup to Generate a PitchDarnley's Cyber Café is your go-to cybersecurity and IT security podcast, available everywhere you listen. Each episode, we brew up fresh conversations on cybersecurity, IT security, business, technology, and the geopolitical forces shaping our digital world: from data breaches and ransomware to privacy, surveillance, and emerging threats.
Darnley's Cyber Café is hosted by Darnley. The show has published 238 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "The Robot Did It: How Criminals Are Hiring AI to Break In" (28 October 2026, 20 minutes), "One Password, Millions of Kids" (21 October 2026, 26 minutes), and "Why Under-16 Social Media Bans Mean ID Checks for Everyone" (7 October 2026, 30 minutes).
Darnley's Cyber Café publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 21 minutes across 238 episodes.
Booking probability for Darnley's Cyber Café is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Darnley's Cyber Café requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Darnley's Cyber Café's contact route on record: public web form.
The strongest fits for Darnley's Cyber Café are IT Services & Software Development. Darnley's Cyber Café has a technology audience.
Darnley hosts Darnley's Cyber Café, a technology podcast with 238 episodes published.
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Episode #67
Criminals aren’t just using AI to write better scams anymore. They’re handing it the whole job. A new CrowdStrike report documents four previously unreported threat actors who used AI agents to make decisions and run...
Episode #66
One stolen login. Millions of children's records. And a problem that doesn't expire. In this episode we discuss the California public school breach, what was taken and then connects it to the PowerSchool breach, the...
Episode #64
Governments on four continents are moving to keep kids under 16 off social media. Some of the reasons are good. The way to enforce it might be worse. In this episode, we walk the whole ledger: where Australia, the UK...
Episode #63
An AI system locked in a training sandbox with no internet access found a gap, and used it to message an outside chatbot. In this episode, we break down OpenAI's latest containment failure, why it's the third incident...
Episode #61
A financially motivated crew compromised thousands of credentials in under six hours...using an autonomous, multi-agent AI framework instead of a human keyboard. In this episode, Darnley breaks down Google's GTIG threat...
Episode #60
A Reuters investigation just confirmed what Meta employees suspected all along: the company drew up a plan to shrink entire engineering teams by 60%, betting AI could cover the gap. This episode, Darnley breaks down...
Episode #59
Everyone panicked this week over two new Chinese AI models. The economics? Mostly overblown. But buried in the story is a real cybersecurity blind spot, a hacked company that had to turn to a Chinese AI model to defend...
Episode #58
A researcher found an unlocked server...and inside it, working VPN credentials for nearly 74,000 corporate firewalls spanning Chevron, Samsung, Foxconn, and thousands more. In this episode of Darnley’s Cyber Café...
Episode #57
Amazon just announced it has deployed enough satellites to launch its Leo broadband service later this year, stepping straight into Starlink's territory and kicking off the next phase of the satellite internet race. In...
Episode #56
Merck spent six and a half years fighting over a $1.4 billion insurance claim after the NotPetya cyberattack, and walked away with a settlement, not an answer. The question that mattered most never got resolved. This...
Episode #55
A job offer lands in your inbox on LinkedIn. The company checks out. The money is fine... All they need is a short report on geopolitics or defence policy. You just got flagged by the People's Liberation Army. In this...
Episode #54
iPhone users across iOS 16 are having their WhatsApp accounts hijacked...without clicking anything, without approving a login, and without any new device appearing in their Linked Devices list. In this episode, we break...
Episode #53
Your AI chatbot just recommended a software download. You clicked it...along with a GPU cryptominer running silently in the background. Darnley breaks down Microsoft Defender Experts' latest findings on a sophisticated...
Episode #52
In May 2026, NYC Health + Hospitals, the largest public health system in the USA, disclosed months long data breach affecting 1.8 million people. Stealing data such as medical records, Social security numbers, passport...
Episode #61
Five Eyes intelligence agencies: CISA, NCSC, CCC, ASD, and NCSC just published their first ever coordinated security guidance on agentic AI, and the message is clear: autonomous AI systems are already operating inside...
Episode #50
Your organization spent money on cybersecurity training. Someone still clicked the link. In this episode of Darnley's Cyber Café, we break down why most security awareness programs fail to change behaviour, and why the...
Episode #49
On April 22, 2026, the Bitwarden CLI, used in CI/CD pipelines at tens of thousands of organizations, was weaponized for exactly 93 minutes. In this episode, Darnley walks through the anatomy of the supply chain attack...
Episode #48
The company you hired to protect you just got hacked. That is not a hypothetical, it is the defining threat pattern of the past 18 months. In this episode Darnley breaks down why cybersecurity vendors, including some of...
Episode #47
The attacker's toolkit just got a significant upgrade, and most businesses haven't caught up. In this episode of Darnley's Cyber Café, Darnley breaks down how AI is reshaping offensive cyber operations across two...
Episode #46
Your digital footprint is bigger than you think, and most of it was never intentional. In this Episode of Darnley's Cyber Café, Darnley breaks down digital exhaust: the passive data trail generated by your everyday...
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