Security This Week

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By: Carl Franklin

Enterprise security topics are discussed through the lens of current events, which catapult us into a discussion about hacking methods, security measures, and outcomes. Your hosts are Carl Franklin, Patrick Hynds, and Duane LaFlotte

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One guy saves the Internet!
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Today at 5:33 AM

Ondrej SurĂ˝: The Volunteer Who Shipped PHP2Shell Fixes for 12 PHP Versions. What Founders Owe the Open Source They Run On


Skynet... not the worst news!
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Today at 5:27 AM

PHP Warns of Two Critical 9.2 Security Vulnerabilities. Patch


Crazy AI Model Meltdown
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10/18/2026

Carl plays an insane recording of an audio interaction with a new kind of AI model.


The Shaggy Defense
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10/09/2026

“An AI did it” is no defense, says nonprofit suing OpenAI over Hugging Face hack


Let Me Guess. AI Goes Rogue?
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10/05/2026

OpenAI and Anthropic are probing a colossal wave of security incidents


To QUERY or not to QUERY
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09/26/2026

HTTP QUERY Method: The Grey Zone Between GET And POST.


Passing Notes
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09/19/2026

AI caught telling future versions of itself to bypass human controls, OpenAI reveals


Should you Trust your Router?
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09/13/2026

X/Twitter message revealing token router shenanigans


Radix Malorum
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09/05/2026

OpenAI Astra Brings Autonomous Zero-Day Exploitation to AI


Chinese Food Again?
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08/29/2026

FBI Disrupts China-Linked QTFY Infrastructure Used to Steal Data From U.S. Organizations


Hack the Spacecraft!
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08/23/2026

NASA AIT-GUI Flaws Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Issue Spacecraft Commands


The Untouchables?
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08/16/2026

US government will let private companies hack criminal gangs


Rogue AI: Irregular?
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08/08/2026

Anthropic Says Claude Mistook the Open Internet for a CTF and Breached Three Organizations


Caught Passing Notes in Class
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08/01/2026

OpenAI finds AI agent leaving escape notes for its future versions


OpenAI Goes Rogue!
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07/25/2026

OpenAI Models Autonomously Hack Hugging Face


The Hives that Bind
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07/19/2026

New Windows LegacyHive zero-day gives hackers admin privileges


AWS Hacked!
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07/11/2026

AI-Powered Attack Compromises AWS Cloud in 72 Hours


Claude Unmuted
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07/05/2026

Trump administration lifts restrictions on Anthropic's Claude models after cybersecurity alarm


Don't Wear Your Face!
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06/27/2026

Hackers leak facial recognition records tied to millions of Madison Square Garden visitors


What's up with Fortinet?
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06/20/2026

FortiBleed campaign exposes 75,000 Fortinet firewalls worldwide


Aesop is Rolling in his Grave
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06/12/2026

Anthropic rolls out Claude Fable 5, but it's available for a limited time


Book: The Cat's Revenge by Claude Balls.
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06/05/2026

Claude Code’s GitHub Actions Vulnerability Lets Attackers Compromise Any Repository


Beware of the Landshark!
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05/30/2026

FBI warns of in-person data theft attacks from extortion gang


Et Tu, M5??
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05/24/2026

First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5


Ding Dong! Linux Again!
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05/21/2026

New Linux 'Dirty Frag' zero-day gives root on all major distros


Every Linux System at Risk!
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05/09/2026

Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root on Every Major Linux Distribution.


Mythos: the Good and the Bad
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04/25/2026

Anthropic investigates unauthorized Mythos access by Discord group


Shall We Play a Game?
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04/19/2026

AI chatbots used tactical nuclear weapons in 95% of AI war games, launched strategic strikes three times!


Who's the Domain Master?
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04/17/2026

$10 Domain Could Have Handed Hackers 25k Endpoints, Including in OT and Gov Networks


Anthropic Gets Mythical
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04/10/2026

Anthropic's Claude Mythos Finds Thousands of Zero-Day Flaws Across Major Systems


Worse Than Log4J?
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04/04/2026

Axios NPM Package Compromised: Supply Chain Attack Hits JavaScript HTTP Client with 100M+ Weekly Downloads


Your Router is Banned!
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03/28/2026

FCC bans foreign routers, putting enterprise network risk in focus


iSpy
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03/21/2026

Researchers uncover iPhone spyware capable of penetrating millions of devices.


SQL Server on Fire! Film at 11.
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03/14/2026

Microsoft SQL Server Zero-Day Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Escalate Privileges


Claude Balls
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02/28/2026

Anthropic ditches its core safety promise in the middle of an AI red line fight with the Pentagon


Is Your Password Manager Safe?
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02/21/2026

Exploitable Flaws Found in Cloud-Based Password Managers


Patrick Was Right!
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02/14/2026

iPhone Lockdown Mode is so good even the FBI can’t crack it


Is Your Pet AI Molting?
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02/07/2026

Hacking Moltbook: The AI Social Network Any Human Can Control


The Sound of Doom!
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01/31/2026

How to get Doom running on a pair of earbuds


GPT, the Uber Hacker
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01/24/2026

New Study Shows GPT-5.2 Can Reliably Develop Zero-Day Exploits at Scale