Aug 17, 2026

CISA’s Back-to-School Cyber Playbook, SharePoint Auth Bypass Exploited, and Major Ransomware & Cybercrime Arrests

As students return to class, CISA released two free cybersecurity guides for K–12 leaders with limited budgets, emphasizing MFA, device protection, tested backups, and incident response planning amid...

Aug 15, 2026

AI Agents Hacking, Passkey Phishing, and Water Utility Attacks

In this weekend month-in-review episode of Cyber Security Today, Jim is joined by David Shipley and Laura Paine to recap major July developments. David shares highlights from Harvard’s cybersecurity and public policy course and Hacker Summer Camp (Bsides,...

Aug 14, 2026

Windows Defender Zero-Day ‘ShieldBreak,’ California’s AI Cyber Defense, and US ‘Cyber Privateers’

A researcher known as Nightmare Eclipse published a new Windows zero-day called ShieldBreak that exploits Windows Defender to escalate from low-level access to full system control across Windows 10/11 (including...

Aug 12, 2026

DEF CON In-Flight Wi‑Fi Hack, 400 Microsoft Patches, and AI Agent ‘Ghostjacking’

Delta Air Lines is investigating a brief appearance of an unauthorized Wi‑Fi network on a Las Vegas–Atlanta flight carrying DEF CON attendees after reports of a deauthentication attack, a rogue SSID (“Delta Wi‑Fi Fast”), and...

Aug 10, 2026

AI Patch Development Fails, WordPress Login XSS Hits All Versions, and DEF CON’s Biggest Security Lessons

David Shipley covers new research from 1Password’s Off By One Labs showing AI-generated vulnerability patches often fail: across 6,080 scored patches for six CVEs, only 26% fixed issues without changing...