Daily Cyber Briefing
The Daily Cyber Briefing delivers concise, no-fluff updates on the latest cybersecurity threats, breaches, and regulatory changes. Each episode equips listeners with actionable insights to stay ahead of emerging risks in today’s fast-moving digital landscape.
Episodes
73 episodes
Daily Cyber & AI Briefing — 2026-03-27
Daily Cyber & AI Briefing with Michael Housch. This episode was published automatically and includes the assembled audio plus full transcript.TranscriptWelcome to today’s cyber and AI risk briefing. I’m Michael Housch, and o...
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Daily Cyber & AI Briefing — 2026-03-26
Daily Cyber & AI Briefing with Michael Housch. This episode was published automatically and includes the assembled audio plus full transcript.TranscriptWelcome to today’s cyber and AI risk briefing. I want to dive right in, ...
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Daily Cyber & AI Briefing — 2026-03-24
Daily Cyber & AI Briefing with Michael Housch. This episode was published automatically and includes the assembled audio plus full transcript.TranscriptWelcome to the daily cyber and AI risk briefing. Today, we’re diving int...
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Daily Cyber & AI Briefing — 2026-03-23
Daily Cyber & AI Briefing with Michael Housch. This episode was published automatically and includes the assembled audio plus full transcript.TranscriptWelcome back, everyone. Today, we’re looking at the cyber and AI risk la...
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Daily Cyber & AI Briefing — 2026-03-20
Daily Cyber & AI Briefing with Michael Housch. This episode was published automatically and includes the assembled audio plus full transcript.TranscriptWelcome to today’s cyber and AI risk briefing. I’m Michael Housch. Over ...
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Daily Cyber & AI Briefing — 2026-03-19
Daily Cyber & AI Briefing with Michael Housch. This episode was published automatically and includes the assembled audio plus full transcript.TranscriptToday, we’re diving into the evolving world of cyber and AI risk—a lands...
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Daily Cyber & AI Briefing — 2026-03-18
Daily Cyber & AI Briefing with Michael Housch. This episode was published automatically and includes the assembled audio plus full transcript.TranscriptWelcome to today’s cyber and AI risk briefing. I’m Michael Housch, and o...
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Daily Cyber & AI Briefing — 2026-03-17
Daily Cyber & AI Briefing with Michael Housch. This draft includes the assembled audio and full transcript for review before publication.TranscriptWelcome to today’s cyber and AI risk briefing. Let’s dive straight into the f...
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Daily Cyber & AI Briefing — 2026-03-16
Daily Cyber & AI Briefing with Michael Housch. This draft includes the assembled audio and full transcript for review before publication.TranscriptWelcome to today’s cyber and AI risk briefing. The landscape we’re operating ...
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Daily Cyber & AI Briefing — 2026-03-13
Daily Cyber & AI Briefing with Michael Housch. This draft includes the assembled audio and full transcript for review before publication.TranscriptWelcome to today’s cyber and AI risk brief. I’m Michael Housch, and over the ...
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Daily Cyber & AI Briefing — 2026-03-12
Daily Cyber & AI Briefing with Michael Housch. This draft includes the assembled audio and full transcript for review before publication.TranscriptWelcome to today’s deep dive into the evolving world of cyber and AI risk. If...
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Zero-Days, Shiny Hunters, and the Texas Throwdown
On today's episode of Cyber Scoops & Digital Shenanigans, host Mike Housch breaks down ten stories rattling the security world this week — from a Chrome zero-day already being exploited in the wild and a Chinese espionage group quietly livi...
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Supply Chains, Power Grids, and AI Gone Wild
Today we dive into a wave of supply chain attacks hitting everything from Notepad++ to antivirus software, nation-state hackers targeting power grids, and why 175,000 exposed AI servers might be the next big headache for security teams. Plus, t...
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When Cybersecurity Pros Go Rogue: Insider Threats, Massive Breaches, and the ALPHV Takedown
In this eye-opening episode, Mike Housch covers the shocking story of US cybersecurity professionals who pleaded guilty to participating in ALPHV ransomware attacks, plus critical vulnerabilities like the React2Shell exploit affecting 85,000 sy...
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Zero-Day Chaos & Browser Blues
We're talking zero-days getting hammered left and right, embedded browsers that are more vintage than secure, and some serious exploitation happening in the wild.
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Agentic AI, Vishing, and the Critical SAML Bypass
We break down the newest frontiers of cyber defense and attack, including how Google is using a new User Alignment Critic to shield Chrome's agentic AI from prompt injection, and why a critical flaw in the Ruby SAML library demands immediate pa...
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React2Shell Fallout: Max-Rated Flaws, The Great Cloudflare Takedown, and the Rise of Passkeys
Host Mike Housch dives into the chaotic fallout from the maximum-severity React2Shell vulnerability, which caused a massive Cloudflare outage and rapid exploitation by threat actors. We also analyze another critical 10.0-rated flaw in Apache Ti...
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Title: State-Sponsored Threats & Supply Chain Worms: WARP PANDA, React2Shell, and Shai-Hulud 2.0
This week, we dive deep into the sophisticated China-nexus threat WARP PANDA, which is relentlessly exploiting VMware vCenter environments with the BRICKSTORM malware, alongside urgent warnings about the actively exploited React2Shell vulnerabi...
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Zero-Days, Botnets, and AI Plagiarism: The Dec. 2025 Cyber Roundup
We break down Google's urgent Android patches, including two actively exploited zero-days, and analyze the appearance of the new ShadowV2 IoT botnet leveraging known flaws. Plus, we look into why an AI-generated recipe card landed Google in hot...
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Beyond Hacklore: Exploits, Insider Threats, and the Agentic AI Risk
Host Mike Housch dives into the latest major breaches, including 146,000 records stolen from Delta Dental of Virginia, and dissects critical zero-day exploitation confirmed by CISA. We also explore the emerging risks of Agentic AI, and hear fro...
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Cloud Chaos, Router Espionage, and the 7-Zip Time Bomb
Today we dive into Cloudflare's massive outage caused by a database mishap and track the alarming rise of ransomware targeting Amazon S3 misconfigurations. Plus, we uncover a global espionage network hidden inside 50,000 compromised Asus router...
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The AI Phishing Arms Race and the FortiWeb/Ray Zero-Day Exploits
Threat actors are leveraging AI to run sophisticated phishing campaigns that mimic Fortune-500 marketing departments, making identity the most vulnerable target. We also dive into critical zero-day exploits impacting FortiWeb and the Ray AI fra...
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Chrome Zero-Days, Cloudflare's Big Oops, and Why Gen Z Uses '12345
Today, we dive into a massive internet disruption that wasn't a cyberattack, as Cloudflare confirms a service-crashing bug, and we cover the urgent need to patch the seventh Google Chrome zero-day found this year. We also dissect a pervasive Wh...
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Legacy Exploits and Guardrail Failures: Finger Protocol, FortiWeb Zero-Days, and EchoGram Tokens
Today. I dive into how decades-old tech, like the "Finger" protocol, is being weaponized in modern ClickFix attacks, alongside major zero-day exploitation news affecting FortiWeb and Logitech. We also unpack the sophisticated techniques used by...
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AI Hackers, Worms, and Why CISOs Can’t Get Federal Agencies to Patch
We dive into a massive NPM registry attack where a self-replicating worm polluted the software supply chain with over 150,000 packages seeking cryptocurrency rewards. Then, we analyze how state-sponsored threat actors used Anthropic’s Claude AI...
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