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(01:27) - BHIS - Talkin' Bout [infosec] News 2023-08-21

(04:30) - Story # 1: Hackers red-teaming A.I. are ‘breaking stuff left and right,’ but don’t expect quick fixes from DefCon: ‘There are no good guardrails’

(06:18) - Story # 1b: What happens when thousands of hackers try to break AI chatbots

(08:46) - Story # 2: US lawmaker says FBI notified him of email breach linked to Microsoft cloud hack

(11:18) - Story # 3: Elon Musk's army of inactive followers paints a bleak picture of X as a whole

(12:42) - Story # 3b: Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule

(18:45) - Story # 4: Haggling With Hackers: Surprising Lessons From 50 Negotiations With Ransomware Gangs

(23:42) - Story # 5: WinRAR flaw lets hackers run programs when you open RAR archives

(27:55) - Story # 6: CISA, experts warn of Citrix vulnerabilities being exploited by hackers

(29:44) - Story # 7: Ongoing Duo outage causes Azure Auth authentication errors

(30:38) - Story # 8: Phishing campaign steals accounts for Zimbra email servers worlwide

(35:48) - Story # 9: WD refused to answer our questions about its self-wiping SanDisk SSDs

(38:35) - Story # 9b: Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2023

(42:07) - Story # 10: NYC Bans TikTok on City Devices

(55:38) - Story # 11: IMAX Still Runs on PalmPilot Operating System

(57:25) - Story # 12: Major LinkedIn Account Takeover Campaign Underway

Talkin’ About Infosec News – 8/21/2023