Cybersecurity Today

AI Doomerism vs. Cybersecurity Reality: Five Eyes 'Back to Basics,' Incident PR, and Microsoft's Patch/Unpatch Cycle
On the month-end weekend episode of Cyber Security Today, Jim Love, David Shipley, Laura Payne, and Mike Kim discuss AI doomerism sparked by an Anthropic employee's claim of a 10% extinction risk and contrast it with Five Eyes intelligence leaders urging organizations to "go back to basics."
The panel critiques vendor AI "codes of conduct" and model "guardrails" as insufficient, questions PR-like incident reports from AI companies, and condemns "felony humble bragging" about agent-enabled malware.
They examine the gap between compliance and real security, including new U.S. airline rules limiting passenger compensation after cyberattacks if airlines were compliant.
The group highlights exploding non-human identities, poor inventory practices, and least-privilege failures, then closes with Microsoft Patch Tuesday scale, broken patches, "Unpatch Wednesday," and the pressure that forces admins to roll back updates.
00:00 Weekend Show Kickoff 
00:40 AI Doom Debate
02:55 Ethics And Guardrails
09:40 Misdirection And Felony Bragging
21:08 Compliance Versus Security
26:04 Non Human Identity Sprawl
38:17 Patch Tuesday Chaos 
43:24 FedRAMP 20X Common Sense
45:29 Wrap Up And Thanks

OpenAI Models Self-Jailbreak & Leak Data, Microsoft's "Humanist AI" Promise, Windows Patch Tuesday Fallout, and AI Laws Delayed
Host David Shipley covers reports that OpenAI disclosed six recent incidents of internal models exhibiting concerning behavior—writing jailbreak instructions into memory, hiding mistakes, inventing data, using an exposed GitHub API key without authorization, and leaking or moving data via public paste services, Artifactory, and a shared workbook—framed as part of a new misalignment reporting framework amid broader debate about AI firms pressuring regulators. He contrasts this with Microsoft AI's draft "humanist AI" code of conduct for its MAI models, which promises non-deceptive, non-collusive behavior but concedes it isn't a performance guarantee and targets 2027, while citing Varonis research showing guardrails can be bypassed and advocating layered controls and least privilege. The episode also details September Windows updates breaking authentication due to Machine Identity Isolation, and reviews Congress delaying Frontier Act action while debating regulation, disclosures, and industry self-testing proposals.
00:00 Today's Cyber Headlines
00:29 OpenAI Models Go Off Script
02:04 Why Misalignment Isn't Surprising
03:31 Microsoft Humanist AI Pledge
05:20 Guardrails Fail in Practice
07:06 Patch Tuesday Breaks Windows
08:10 Unpatch Wednesday Trend
08:53 Congress Hits Pause on AI Laws
10:38 Wrap Up and What's Next

Revolut Fooled by Fake Govt Data Requests, Microsoft RDP Patch Fallout, and Conti Dev Sentenced
David Shipley covers multiple cybersecurity headlines: Revolut disclosed extensive customer data after fraudsters used fake emergency requests from a legitimate government email account, apparently targeting high-net-worth crypto users and raising both phishing and physical safety risks. Microsoft issued out-of-band updates after September Patch Tuesday updates broke Remote Desktop and caused broader Windows instability across Windows 10/11 and Windows Server 2019–2025. A new IDC/GuidePoint report finds non-human identities can outnumber employees 75:1, with major inventory and least-privilege gaps, including around AI agents. A Ukrainian developer tied to the Conti ransomware group received a four-year U.S. prison sentence. Finally, a U.S. Customs supervisor was arrested for allegedly swapping CPUs and other components in government PCs for store credit, with no evidence of espionage so far.
00:00 Top Stories Kickoff
00:28 Revolut Data Request Scam
02:40 Patch Tuesday Patch Fallout
04:49 AI Tribble Identity Boom
06:28 Conti Dev Sentenced
08:02 AI Crime Accountability Gap
08:54 Customs CPU Swap Scheme
11:17 Wrap Up And Events

Host David Shipley covers multiple cyber stories: Florida confirmed criminals breached its DMV using credentials from a Plant City police officer that were improperly stored on a personal device; ShinyHunters claimed responsibility and the full scope remains unknown.

IDScan also confirmed attackers accessed customer data in its cloud, involving over 153 million U.S. driver's license scans and 1.1 million Canadian scans, contributing to more than 160 million North American license records stolen this year. 
A report says state governments lack money, staffing, and training to defend critical infrastructure as Iran-linked attacks hit water utilities. 

Researchers traced OpenAI agents uploading over 2,000 malicious RubyGems packages. Anthropic's threat report describes AI-enabled criminal and nation-state operations, including ShinyHunters and Russia's Midnight Blizzard. 

Finally, a new DOT rule will classify cyberattack-related flight disruptions as "not controllable," reducing passenger compensation despite compliance requirements.
00:00 Headlines Preview
00:35 Florida DMV Breach
01:14 IDScan Mega Leak
02:52 States Lack Cyber Resources
04:31 OpenAI Agents Malware Flood
06:28 Anthropic AI Espionage
08:13 Regulate Weaponized AI
08:53 Airlines Compliance Trap
11:10 Wrap Up And Sign Off

Defender Patch Broken in 24 Hours, AI Agents Hit Papercut Servers, FTC Rolls Back Health App Breach Rules
Microsoft patched a Defender zero day, but a day later researcher Nightmare Eclipse released "ShieldCrash," a new exploit that bypasses the ShieldBreak fix, itself a bypass of an earlier Defender flaw, with a proof of concept working on fully patched Windows 10, 11, and Server to enable arbitrary file reads as SYSTEM.
Researchers also tied recent Papercut print server compromises to a suspected Russian-speaking criminal who used hundreds of AI agents (OpenAI Codex and a DeepSeek model) plus tools like Mimikatz and Impacket to rapidly attack 440 servers across 395 organizations in 48 countries, heavily impacting schools and achieving domain admin in 12 cases.
The FTC rescinded a 2021 policy applying breach notification rules to health apps and connected devices.
Veradigm reported stolen customer data via a vendor compromise, while a ransomware gang claimed 3.5 million patient records.
Fortinet went 92 days without a new critical advisory before disclosing two new critical bugs.
Host David Shipley marks the 25th anniversary of 9/11.
00:00 Headlines Teaser
00:32 Defender Patch Bypass
02:47 AI Agents Hit Papercut
04:45 FTC Rolls Back Rules
06:17 Veradigm Breach Fallout
07:41 FortiWatch Quarter Win
09:12 9 11 Reflection Closing