Jared's Technology Podcast Network · Jared Rimer

Sans News Bites for the newsletter for Friday, September 21, 2025

·1 hr 26 min·5 clips

Fortinet disclosed a second actively exploited FortiWeb vulnerability in less than a week.

Jared Reimer opens episode 27 of SANS News Bytes with his usual welcome and a straightforward note that the show will try to keep things as clean as possible. He says some stories make that harder, and that sets the tone right away. The program feels more like a spoken security briefing than a polished newsroom piece. Jared moves through the newsletter items in order, stopping often to explain technical details for listeners following along. He gives practical context that makes a CVE score, a vendor name, or a breach report easier to track. His reactions are part of the format too. When a story feels egregious, he says so. The Fortinet item gets a long, frustrated response because the vulnerability count keeps climbing, and he treats that repeat appearance as a sign that something is badly off. The anger is blunt, but it stays tied to the same practical concern running through the rest of the show. Another major item covers Canadian provincial privacy commissioners and their reports on the PowerSchool breach. The episode frames schools as sharing responsibility, which keeps the story from staying at a simple vendor-victim level. Jared keeps explaining what the reports mean instead of assuming the audience has already read them. He also slips in personal asides and small production notes, including references to the notes and the Braille readers who follow the program. That gives the show a lived-in feel. Near the end, he talks directly about keeping the episode reasonably clean and about how listener feedback matters. He closes with a scheduling note that there will be no Security Box for the week of Thanksgiving and that the program will return on December 3, 2025. The episode stays casual and a little long-winded in the way a real spoken bulletin is casual and long-winded. It has corrections, repetition, and side comments, but it never loses sight of the security news itself. The result is a human, reactive readthrough that turns a dense newsletter into something listeners can actually follow.

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A candid security roundup that turns a messy week into a clear, human listen.

SANS News Bytes episode 27, hosted by Jared Reimer, comes across as a blunt security roundup with a clear point of view. The Fortinet segment sounds openly annoyed, while the PowerSchool coverage stays centered on the report that Canadian provincial privacy commissioners say…

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For the week's security news, with an annotated update that keeps the jargon in plain English and the host blunt when the details deserve it.

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