Cybersecurity news with sharp elbows.
Security Weekly News tracks current security stories with a caffeinated mix of incident detail, workplace cynicism, and practical defender instincts. It moves from SharePoint exploitation to scam baiting, AI pressure, deepfakes, mobile controls, and whatever strange metaphor gets the point across fastest.
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Security Weekly News is a twice-weekly cybersecurity news show with the energy of someone clearing a crowded security queue before another alert appears. It is quick. It is dry. It is also plainly made by people who know that security work is full of brittle systems, overconfident vendors, rushed executives, and users who behave like users. Recent episodes frame stories around SharePoint exploitation, AI pressure, deepfakes, scam baiting, email obfuscation, device wiping, zero trust, Fortinet, Zoom, Gmail, Meta, Waymo, Samsung, and other names pulled from the week's security churn. The show does not flatten that material into a sterile briefing. Doug White appears in recent episodes as a central named voice, with Josh Marpet, Aaran Leyland, Rinoa Poison, Rob Allen, and Gibb Witham appearing in episode titles or framing. The texture is conversational and unstable in a useful way. A headline can become a detour about workplace mandates, then a joke about the promised future of AI, then a practical reminder that marketing copy is not a control. Another segment might turn an email-filter evasion detail into a plain-language explanation of how scanning pipelines can fail when speed beats scrutiny. The show expects listeners to keep up. Acronyms and vendor names arrive without much hand-holding, but the implication is usually translated into operational terms: restrict execution, distrust convenient claims, think through failure modes, and remember that a feature like remote wiping becomes dangerous when the wrong party gets control. The scam-baiting episodes broaden the lens from enterprise defense to the new fraud economy, especially where AI and social manipulation make ordinary people easier to target. It is funny because the industry is absurd. It is serious because the consequences are not.
Made for: Security professionals, IT operators, and technically fluent listeners who want current threat context without a sanitized boardroom tone. It works best for people comfortable with fast pacing, security names, acronyms, and blunt security skepticism.
What sets it apart: The show pairs security news coverage with loose, riff-heavy commentary that keeps circling back to what defenders should actually do. Its edge comes from treating cybersecurity as both technically demanding and visibly absurd.
Concise, bi-weekly reviews of the most significant security stories, including malware, threats, government actions, and other cybersecurity topics. Hosted by Dr. Doug White. Co hosts: Josh Marpet, Aaran Leyland.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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