A daily cybersecurity briefing hosted by Dave Bittner, pairing breaking incidents with a guest interview.
The CyberWire turns fast-moving security news into a compact daily briefing. Its episodes move from breach reports and cyberespionage activity to ransomware pressure, policy responses, malware trends, and occasional special editions on cybersecurity careers.
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The CyberWire runs primarily as a daily news briefing, with host Dave Bittner summarizing several cybersecurity stories per episode in a compact, scripted format lasting roughly 20-25 minutes. Each daily edition typically closes with a short conversation with an outside guest — in the sampled episodes these include Splunk's Bill Wright on ransomware as a national security threat, Symantec's Liam Omerchu on ransomware extortion tactics, and Microsoft Canada's Kevin McGee on leadership gaps in the security industry. Recurring news threads include ransomware gangs' documented ties to Russian intelligence services (GRU, FSB), Chinese state-linked APT groups, and fallout from major breaches at companies like T-Mobile and Colonial Pipeline. The show periodically breaks from the daily format for longer special editions, including a roughly 45-minute panel of women engineers at Northrop Grumman discussing careers in security-cleared defense work, moderated by Kathleen Smith of ClearJobs.net with involvement from Jennifer Ivan, who also directs the network's Women in Cybersecurity Initiative. Cybersecurity workforce topics — non-traditional entry paths, the shortage of qualified professionals, and cleared-versus-commercial career tradeoffs — surface in both news segments and dedicated episodes. The show references companion programs in the same network, including Hacking Humans (co-hosted by Joe Kerrigan) and Research Saturday, indicating it functions as a daily flagship within a broader podcast network. The tone throughout is factual and trade-press in style, closer to an industry newscast than investigative or narrative journalism. Listeners get same-day coverage of breaches and threat activity paired with brief practitioner commentary rather than deep technical teardown or long-form storytelling. The format favors breadth across many stories per episode over sustained focus on any single incident.
Made for: Cybersecurity practitioners, IT security teams, and industry watchers who want a same-day rundown of breaches and threat activity rather than long-form analysis.
What sets it apart: Combines a rapid, multi-story daily news format with a short rotating guest interview, and breaks format for occasional workforce-focused special-edition panels.
More signal, less noise—we distill the day’s critical cyber security news into a concise daily briefing.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
The CyberWire turns a crowded incident slate into an intelligible briefing, then uses interviews to expose the operational logic behind cyber threats.
The CyberWire moves briskly from a headline docket into interviews that explain why particular threats matter. Dave Bittner tracks ransomware, breaches and cyberespionage without flattening them into a single crisis narrative.
T-Mobile gets breached, ransomware goes geopolitical, and Dave Bittner keeps your threat map from becoming alphabet soup.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A brisk CyberWire brief connecting breach claims, cyberespionage, AI data worries, and ransomware's move into national security.
The CyberWire packs a busy Friday brief into a clear snapshot of late-summer security anxiety. The lead item is a young man claiming responsibility for the T-Mobile breach, followed by SparklingGoblin's apparent focus on educational institutions in Southeast and East Asia,…
A brisk CyberWire briefing on Afghanistan, exposed data, mobile malware, and ransomware's pressure-driven business model.
The CyberWire frames the Taliban victory as a security problem as much as a political one, tracking how influence operations, exposed watch-list data, and sensitive information could follow a change in power.
A brisk cyber roundup that keeps the day's security chatter clear without dragging it out.
CyberWire moves through a crowded cyber news day with a reporter's pace. It covers the Poly Network cross-chain hack, the Accenture incident, LockBit's release of relatively anodyne files, and attacks on home routers without overloading any one item.
A respectful look at women in cybersecurity and the meaning of clearance-bound work.
This special edition looks at women in cybersecurity, where clearance-bound work shapes the job as much as technical skill. Its best moments come when the guests explain why the quieter parts of the work still matter, and how a career can feel worthwhile even when much of it…
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A 21-year-old American expatriate named John Binns tells the Wall Street Journal he hacked T-Mobile through an unprotected router, gaining access to over 100 servers and calling T-Mobile's security 'awful.' A new Chinese-linked APT group called Sparkling Goblin is targeting educational institutions in East and Southeast Asia using a modular backdoor and code reportedly stolen from the NSA-linked Equation Group.
This August 17, 2021 CyberWire daily briefing covers the cybersecurity fallout from the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan, including risks to sensitive U.S.
The show opens with a sponsor message and a cyber-news roundup that moves from returned stolen coin to the fallout of a LockBit claim.
The CyberWire's Research Saturday examines Zscaler research on exposed corporate and cloud infrastructure, including remote access services, public cloud resources, and forgotten technical debt.
A CyberWire special edition panel brings together three women engineers at Northrop Grumman — Priyanka (cyber software engineer and UMBC PhD student), Lauren (software engineering manager), and Ashley (AI systems engineer) — to discuss careers in the security-cleared defense sector.