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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Cybersecurity Headlines turns security news into practical conversations about risk, response, staffing, and the growing operational effects of AI.
Cybersecurity Headlines treats each news item as the start of a strategy meeting. In the Department of Know episodes, Rich Straffolino asks security leaders why a story matters to their teams and organizations, then keeps pressing until the operational consequences become clear.
An AI-assisted AWS break-in becomes a question for your team, not just another alarming headline.
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A practical security roundtable on Ford's senior hires and the quality demands facing LLMs.
Department of No frames Ford's rehiring of 350 experienced employees and the vetting of large language models as a practical security question: what does a headline actually change inside a program?
A holiday-week format shift lets security leaders connect AI and supply-chain risk to practical team concerns.
Rich Straffolino uses a Juneteenth break from the usual Friday 4 p.m. live show for a prerecorded round of conversations with four security leaders, asking which stories from the week stuck with them and why those stories matter to their teams.
A clear, practical take on CISA's three-day patching push and the AI pressure behind it.
CISA's proposed three-day deadline for the highest-risk federal vulnerabilities gives this episode a firm center. The discussion stays with bugs that are actively exploited, internet-facing, automatable, and able to hand attackers control of a system, then connects CISA's…
A sharp discussion of how chained vulnerabilities can turn routine patching into a larger blast-radius problem.
The episode frames vulnerability management as a compounding-risk problem, where separate weaknesses can become more dangerous together than they look on a patch list.
A focused panel on AI, open-source patching, and who gets told when security-relevant software is fixed.
AI-assisted security work sets the frame for this edition of The Department of Know, as the panel weighs reports of a plan to patch open-source tools while holding some patch details for paying customers.
AI-fueled intrusions compress cloud attacks into minutes, forcing defenders to rethink what they can actually see.
The segment treats cybersecurity as a contest between attacker speed and defender comprehension. It follows an AWS intrusion that, based on the research cited, moved from stolen test credentials to administrative access in under ten minutes, with AI apparently helping with…
A brisk security roundtable that weighs audio and video social engineering against the privacy-versus-safety tradeoff.
This Cybersecurity Headlines episode looks at audio and video social engineering, then widens into the privacy-versus-public-safety tradeoff. It stays practical rather than abstract, with a clear focus on how separate systems can be correlated once they are brought together, and…
Reported narratives on hackers, spyware, and data crimes from Dina Temple-Raston.
Dave, Joe, and Maria break down phishing kits, deepfakes, and social-engineering scams weekly.
IAPP's Jedidiah Bracy interviews the regulators and lawyers writing privacy and AI law.
A daily cybersecurity briefing hosted by Dave Bittner, pairing breaking incidents with a guest interview.
Cybersecurity experts analyze five major security stories including CISA's post-quantum cryptography categories, a U.S.
This episode of Department of No features hosts Sarah Lane with guests John Collins and Adam Palmer discussing cybersecurity priorities and threats, starting with a story on SolarWinds vulnerabilities.
Cybersecurity experts Nick Ryan and Chris Rayfield join host Rich Troffolino to analyze recent security headlines, including AI-assisted AWS breaches, the Maltbook data leak, React Native vulnerabilities, and new GSA contract requirements expanding CMMC-style enforcement to civilian agencies.
Rich Grappolino opens Cybersecurity Headlines' Department of No from a basement during a July 4 power outage and frames the week around GPT 5.6 rollout controls, Ford's 350-engineer rehiring, Mozilla Odin, and Oracle PeopleSoft.
Rich Straffolino opens a prerecorded Juneteenth edition of Cybersecurity Headlines' Department of No with four security leaders choosing the week's stories themselves.
CISA is tightening federal patch timelines to 3 days for actively exploited, internet-facing, automatable flaws, and Brett Conlon says the real bottleneck is asset visibility and exposure management.
An audit says NIST's NVD backlog grew from 13,000 in 2024 to 27,000 unprocessed flaws by the end of 2025, while analysts spent 80% of their time on scoring work that matched independent evaluations only 12% of the time.
Bruce Schneier tells Rich Straffolino that "break up the tech monopolies" would improve security more than small user-side changes like 2FA.
A daily roundup of cybersecurity headlines covering Cisco WebEx vulnerabilities, Splunk enterprise flaws, and Git identity spoofing risks.
A roundtable discussion of the latest cybersecurity news and priorities for security professionals.
A daily roundup of cybersecurity news covering OpenAI's GPT 5.4 Cyber, a McGraw-Hill data breach, and a signed adware campaign.
Daily cybersecurity news covering ransomware groups targeting each other, a fake Ledger app draining crypto, and the U.S.
A daily news roundup covering the latest cybersecurity incidents, including AI capabilities, data breaches, and software vulnerabilities.
A daily roundup of cybersecurity news covering recent vulnerabilities, patches, and attacks.
A panel of security leaders discuss AI as a top priority and a Palo Alto warning about AI agents as insider threats.
A year-end review episode discussing major cybersecurity trends, stories, and predictions for 2026.
A weekly cybersecurity news roundtable where experts discuss current threats, trends, and strategies for CISOs.
A daily cybersecurity news show featuring industry experts discussing current threats, trends, and priorities.
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Steve Prentice recommends putting a gap between seeing a message and deciding what to do next.