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Defensive Security Podcast Episode 327

Want to be the first to hear our episodes each week?  Become a Patreon donor here. Links to this week’s stories: https://www.cybersecurity-insiders.com/how-ai-will-shape-the-future-of-cyber-defense-a-one-three-and-five-year-outlook/ https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/10/15/f5-big-ip-data-breach/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-lastpass-bitwarden-breach-alerts-lead-to-pc-hijacks/ https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2025/10/16/mddr-2025/ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/19/global-cyber-attack-russian-hack-solarwinds-stress-health

Defensive Security Podcast Episode 326

Want to be the first to hear our episodes each week?  Become a Patreon donor here. Here are the stories we discuss this week: https://cybersecuritynews.com/hackers-actively-compromising-databases/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-target-university-hr-employees-in-payroll-pirate-attacks/ https://securityaffairs.com/183154/security/threat-actors-steal-firewall-configs-impacting-all-sonicwall-cloud-backup-users.html https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/07/gen_ai_shadow_it_secrets/ https://thehackernews.com/2025/10/from-phishing-to-malware-ai-becomes.html?m=1 https://databreaches.net/2025/10/12/from-sizzle-to-drizzle-to-fizzle-the-massive-data-leak-that-wasnt/

Defensive Security Podcast Episode 325

Want to be the first to hear our episodes each week?  Become a Patreon donor here. Here are links to the stories we discuss this week: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/29/postmark_mcp_server_code_hijacked/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/oracle-patches-ebs-zero-day-exploited-in-clop-data-theft-attacks/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/westjet-data-breach-exposes-travel-details-of-12-million-customers/ https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/material-cybersecurity-breaches-unreported/760892/ https://www.securityweek.com/red-hat-confirms-gitlab-instance-hack-data-theft/ https://www.securityweek.com/hackers-extorting-salesforce-after-stealing-data-from-dozens-of-customers/ https://databreaches.net/2025/10/04/just-days-before-its-data-might-be-leaked-qantas-airways-obtained-a-permanent-injunction/

Defensive Security Podcast Episode 324

  Here are links to the stories we discuss this week: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/brickstorm-espionage-campaign https://thehackernews.com/2025/09/github-mandates-2fa-and-short-lived.html https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/23/gartner_ai_attack/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/sonicwall-releases-sma100-firmware-update-to-wipe-rootkit-malware/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/battered-by-cyberattacks-salesforce-faces-a-trust-problem-and-a-potential-class-action-lawsuit/

Defensive Security Podcast Episode 323

  Please follow us on YouTube!  Want episodes a week early?  Consider becoming a Patreon sponsor of the DefSec podcast here. Here are links to the stories we talked about this week: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/09/self-replicating-worm-hits-180-software-packages/ https://dirkjanm.io/obtaining-global-admin-in-every-entra-id-tenant-with-actor-tokens/ https://blog.lastpass.com/posts/attack-targeting-macs-via-github-pages https://cybersecuritynews.com/finwise-insider-breach/ https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/09/how-weak-passwords-and-other-failings-led-to-catastrophic-breach-of-ascension/