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Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs - 2025-12-01

Posted December 3, 2025 • 01:02:46

Register for FREE Infosec Webcasts, Anti-casts & Summits – https://poweredbybhis.com00:00 - PreShow Banter™ — The Problem With Extensions03:10 - Lawmakers want to Ban VPNs – BHIS - Talkin’ Bout [infosec] News 2025-12-0103:47 - Story # 1: Stop Putting Your Passwords Into Random Websites (Yes, Seriously, You Are The Problem)12:05 - Story # 2: Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They’re Doing21:19 - Story # 3: Critical 7 Zip Vulnerability With Public Exploit Requires Manual Update25:49 - Story # 4: ‘Slop Evader’ Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 202237:08 - Story # 5: China’s Espionage in Europe is Deepening and More Sophisticated than Acknowledged, Expert Says39:10 - Story # 6: Apple Update Warning For All iPhone 17, 16 And 15 Users—Act Now42:39 - Story # 6: Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show50:23 - Story # 7: Meta had a 17-strike policy for sex trafficking, former safety leader claims52:41 - Story # 8: Man behind in-flight Evil Twin WiFi attacks gets 7 years in prison

Shai-Hulud malware leaks secrets on GitHub – 2025-17-24

Posted November 26, 2025 • 01:05:00

???? Register for FREE Infosec Webcasts, Anti-casts & Summits – https://poweredbybhis.com00:00 - PreShow Banter™ — Stressed about lithium batteries04:59 - Shai-Hulud malware leaks secrets on GitHub – BHIS - Talkin’ Bout [infosec] News 2025-17-2405:57 - Story # 1: Shai-Hulud malware infects 500 npm packages, leaks secrets on GitHub11:19 - Story # 2: CrowdStrike catches insider feeding information to hackers15:50 - Story # 3: Fidelity sues Broadcom over access to key software to avoid outages22:17 - Story # 4: NetApp sues former CTO for alleged data breach26:49 - Story # 5: CrowdStrike Research: Security Flaws in DeepSeek-Generated Code Linked to Political Triggers36:05 - Story # 6: A major Cloudflare outage took down large parts of the internet - X, ChatGPT and more were affected, but all recovered now37:11 - Story # 6b: Cloudflare outage on November 18, 202541:43 - Story # 7: Iran-Linked Hackers Mapped Ship AIS Data Days Before Real-World Missile Strike Attempt46:35 - Story # 8: This Hacker Conference Installed a Literal Antivirus Monitoring System51:10 - Story # 10: Microsoft to integrate Sysmon directly into Windows 11, Server 202556:41 - Story # 9: Crypto and Carcasses: Undercover Sting Recovers $700K in Bitcoin Miners, Foils $75K Frozen Turkey Heist

A.I. Transcription Startup Was Just A Guy Taking Notes- 2025-11-17

Posted November 20, 2025 • 01:16:33

Register for FREE Infosec Webcasts, Anti-casts & Summits – https://poweredbybhis.com00:00:00 - PreShow Banter™ — The Way the Community Rumbles00:08:21 - A.I. Transcription Startup Was Just A Guy Taking Notes - BHIS - Talkin’ Bout [infosec] News 2025-11-1700:09:01 - Story # 1: New data shows companies are rehiring former employees as AI falls short of expectations00:18:06 - Eric & Whitney’s “Podcast” [webcast] on training your own LLM00:22:12 - Story # 2: Founder Admits His “AI Transcription” Startup Was Just Him Joining People’s Meetings and Taking Notes by Hand00:26:20 - Story # 3: Five Plead Guilty in U.S. for Helping North Korean IT Workers Infiltrate 136 Companies00:37:35 - Story # 4: Google is easing up on Android’s new sideloading restrictions!00:43:44 - Story # 5: Google is collecting troves of data from downgraded Nest thermostats00:44:58 - Story # 5b: Hackers are saving Google’s abandoned Nest thermostats with open-source firmware00:51:34 - Story # 6: FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs01:00:40 - Story # 7: Teens are Hacking School Systems. Let’s Teach Them to Protect Communities Instead01:05:55 - Story # 8: Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign01:14:58 - Discord CTF Winners

Louvre’s Video Security Password Was ‘Louvre’ 2025-11-10

Posted November 13, 2025 • 00:58:56

Register for FREE Infosec Webcasts, Anti-casts & Summits – https://poweredbybhis.com Chapters00:00 - PreShow Banter™ — Humans are Done03:04 - Louvre’s video security password was ‘Louvre’ – BHIS - Talkin’ Bout [infosec] News 2025-11-1005:11 - Story # 1: I Tried the Robot That’s Coming to Live With You. It’s Still Part Human.15:14 - Story # 2: How to trade your $214,000 cybersecurity job for a jail cell25:14 - Story # 3: The Louvre’s video security password was reportedly ‘Louvre’29:04 - Story # 4: Dangerous runC flaws could allow hackers to escape Docker containers32:58 - Story # 5: List of AI Tools Promoted by Threat Actors in Underground Forums and Their Capabilities40:00 - Story # 5b: GTIG AI Threat Tracker: Advances in Threat Actor Usage of AI Tools56:37 - BHIS Webcast – X-Typhoon - Not your Father’s China with John Strand

Ransomware Victims Stop Paying Hackers – 2025-11-03

Posted November 6, 2025 • 01:03:33

Register for FREE Infosec Webcasts, Anti-casts & Summits – https://poweredbybhis.com00:00 - PreShow Banter™ — Musical Views of the Universe04:05 - – BHIS - Talkin’ Bout [infosec] News 2025-11-0304:39 - Story # 1: Ransomware profits drop as victims stop paying hackers06:22 - Chart since 201916:06 - Story # 2: More than a million people every week show suicidal intent when chatting with ChatGPT, OpenAI estimates33:02 - Story # 3: 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea.41:18 - Story # 4: ‘Dangerous’ YouTube videos struck down for bypassing Windows 11 account setup [Update: Restored]47:13 - Story # 5: Chicago firm that resolves ransomware attacks had rogue workers carrying out their own hacks, FBI says51:08 - Story # 6: Microsoft: DNS outage impacts Azure and Microsoft 365 services54:33 - Story # 7: EY Data Leak – Massive 4TB SQL Server Backup Exposed Publicly on Microsoft Azure55:22 - Stordy # 8: Black Hat Europe 2025 Arsenal: 8 AI Security Tools Transforming Cybersecurity

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