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SN 1092: Restraint Abliteration - Rotating Keys, Broken Guardrails
Aug 19, 20262h 49mEp. 1092
From autocorrect to full-fledged conversationalists, discover how a few tweaks transformed language models—and why understanding this shift exposes urgent questions about AI safety and control. Trusting an open source AI
SN 1091: The Post BlackHat State of AI - When AI Writes Malware
Aug 12, 20262h 51mEp. 1091
AI agents are breaking free from their test environments, outsmarting their creators and breaching real-world networks in ways that no one predicted. Discover how these agentic models are changing the game for both cyber
SN 1090: Black Hat - The Hidden Flaws in AI Security Nobody Saw Coming
Aug 6, 20262h 5mEp. 1090
At Black Hat Las Vegas, the Security Now crew digs into how AI is not just finding hidden software bugs but also fueling both groundbreaking innovation and alarming new exploits. When open models can launch surprise Bitc
SN 1089: Models Go Rogue & ExploitGym - Regulators, Start Your Engines
Jul 29, 20263h 7mEp. 1089
What happens when an unconstrained OpenAI model goes rogue and hacks into Hugging Face, breaching real-world security boundaries? This episode unpacks a watershed moment for AI safety that has everyone in cybersecurity t
SN 1088: A Nefarious Novel Use for AI - Ransomware Negotiations Go High-Tech
Jul 22, 20262h 47mEp. 1088
Cybercriminals are harnessing AI not to break in, but to make sense of their stolen loot and increase their leverage in multi-million dollar ransomware heists. This episode unpacks how AI is now turbocharging extortion a
SN 1087: HalluSquatting, GhostApproval & GitLost - Patch Tuesday Breaks Records
Jul 15, 20262h 48mEp. 1087
AI is rewriting the rules of cybersecurity, and this week, massive government and private sector moves show just how quickly the stakes are rising. Find out how regulators, attackers, and defenders are all scrambling to
SN 1086: The Apex Agentic Adversary - Visual Prompt Injection Strikes
Jul 8, 20262h 53mEp. 1086
From the sudden retirement of Internet pioneer Vint Cerf to the unstoppable advance of "apex agentic adversaries," get a front-row seat to the unfolding security revolution and its massive real-world stakes. Why Fable5's
SN 1085: A SOTA State-Sponsored Campaign - AI's New Superpower: Loop Engineering
Jul 1, 20262h 50mEp. 1085
AI is now uncovering and fixing thousands of hidden software bugs faster than humans can keep up, but not everyone is playing by the rules. Find out how state-sponsored attackers and careless disclosures are turning the
SN 1084: The Residential Proxy Threat - Malicious Proxies in Your Living Room
Jun 24, 20262h 47mEp. 1084
A flood of everyday gadgets, from cheap streaming boxes to digital photo frames, are being secretly conscripted into global proxy networks and used to mask major cyberattacks—possibly even targeting your own home network
Patch Tuesday à la AI - Arch Linux Repo Under Siege
Jun 17, 20262h 36mEp. 10830
This episode unpacks the jaw-dropping surge in vulnerabilities unearthed by AI, revealing how Microsoft shattered its own patch records while adversaries and defenders race to outpace each other. The conversation gets re
The Malicious Use of AI - Anthropic's Red Team Report
Jun 10, 20262h 37mEp. 10820
Discover how Anthropic's secretive red team and the MITRE ATT&CK framework are mapping the chilling rise of malicious AI use, revealing cyber threats that now move faster than defenders can respond. Was a U.S. law firm r
AI Captured the Flag - Personal AI: Productivity Superpower or Privacy Threat?
Jun 3, 20263h 19mEp. 10810
AI vulnerability discovery just upended the legendary Capture the Flag competitions, leaving top hackers sidelined while algorithms dominate the scoreboard. Hear why one seasoned researcher says the entire game is over f
Vulnerability Debt Repayment - Will Mythos Change Cybersecurity Forever?
May 27, 20262h 44mEp. 10800
Mozilla found 271 unknown Firefox vulnerabilities in days using AI—bugs that millions of automated test runs had missed for years. Steve Gibson argues this isn't a crisis. It's the industry finally paying down decades of
Daybreak and Codename MDASH - Microsoft's Edge Password Blunder
May 20, 20262h 51mEp. 10790
OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google are racing to unleash next-gen AI that hunts for software vulnerabilities and hacks at scale. This episode explores how these advancements could shake up everything we thought we knew about
DigiCert's latest security mishap triggered not just a scramble behind the scenes, but a cascading crisis that briefly wiped trust from millions of Windows systems. Find out how a single support slip, followed by Microso
Google is sneaking a massive 4.7GB AI model into Chrome, and Mozilla is fighting back as the future of browsers threatens to turn into an AI arms race. Find out what's really happening behind this push and why it's setti
FAST16.SYS - Unmasking the NSA's Most Diabolical Digital Sabotage
Apr 29, 20262h 35mEp. 10760
What if your engineering calculations secretly sabotaged your nation's best efforts? This week, we reveal how a newly uncovered 21-year-old NSA rootkit quietly corrupted scientific research in hostile states and why it c
Security leaders warn the era of AI-driven bug hunting has arrived, with Mythos uncovering hundreds of overlooked vulnerabilities in code bases as trusted as Firefox. Are defenders ready for the avalanche of exploits and
We may already be living through the most consequential hundred days in cyber history, and the arrival of AI that can autonomously chain zero-day vulnerabilities into working exploits means the software industry's long-s
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