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Through Executive Orders, the Trump administration is looking ensure that America's space capabilities have the workforce and technological innovation needed for success.

Host Maria Varmazis sits down with Producer Ethan Cook to continue their conversation as they look at more space-related Executive Orders. While the previous episode looked at the orders that laid out the administration's broad space goals, this conversation looks at the orders that look to advance America's workforce and technical capabilities.

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ESTABLISHING THE UNITED STATES SPACE ACADEMY.

USHERING IN THE NEXT FRONTIER OF QUANTUM INNOVATION.

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On this special edition podcast, Dave Bittner is joined by John Kindervag and Dr Chase Cunningham to discuss the principles of zero trust, cyber resilience, and how AI is transforming cybersecurity strategies. They explore practical frameworks, misconceptions, and the future of security in a machine-speed world.

John is the author of "Cyber Resilience at Machine Speed: The Zero Trust Model for the AI Era," and Chase is one of the book's contributors.
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Dan Lisichkin, AI Security Researcher from Pillar Security, discussing their work on "A WIF Of Fresh Access, How a GitHub Issue on Gemini-CLI Led to GCP Project Compromise." Researchers at Pillar Security uncovered a vulnerability in Google’s Gemini CLI workflows that could allow an attacker to turn a malicious GitHub issue into remote code execution and gain elevated access to a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project.

The exploit chain combined a misconfigured tool allowlist that allowed unrestricted command execution with exposed Workload Identity Federation credentials and overly broad service account permissions, potentially enabling attackers to impersonate privileged accounts. Google promptly addressed the issues by tightening tool restrictions, blocking the agent’s access to credential files, and limiting service account impersonation permissions, highlighting the risks of connecting AI agents to untrusted input and sensitive infrastructure.

The research and executive brief can be found here:

⁠A WIF Of Fresh Access: How a GitHub Issue on Gemini-CLI Led to GCP Project Compromise

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Chinese spies exploit a BeyondTrust zero-day. Atlassian faces active attacks. Rogue AI agents breach Indian networks. Ransomware gangs turn to threats of violence. A cyber incident disrupts U.S. bankruptcy courts. F5 and Juniper push critical patches. Japanese companies suffer a wave of breaches. Google brings AI-powered scam protection to Android. Our guest is Nick Jackson, Global Director of Cyber Security Services at Bitdefender, sharing how the UK are thinking about AI regulation. Braille meets brains.

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Nick Jackson, Global Director of Cyber Security Services at Bitdefender, is sharing how the UK government and private industry are thinking about AI regulation.

Selected Reading

Suspected Chinese espionage attackers abusing BeyondTrust IT support zero-day (Beyond Trust)

U.S. CISA adds Atlassian flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (SecurityAffairs)

After OpenAI's Australia hack, India's cyber agency says AI agents breached systems (The Hindu)

Hackers Target 60 Indian Banking and UPI Apps With New GhostBat Android Malware (Cyber Security News)

Ransomware Gangs Increasingly Turn to Threats of Physical Violence to Extort Payments (Infosecurity Magazine)

BAE Systems Security Incident Stalls Notices From US Bankruptcy Courts (SecurityWeek)

F5, Juniper Networks Patch Critical Vulnerabilities (SecurityWeek)

More Japanese Firms Disclose Details of Data Breaches (Nippon)

Android gets AI defenses against messaging scams, fake calls (Bleeping Computer)

Computers Made of Human Brain Tissue Identify Braille Letters In Breakthrough (404 Media)

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An OpenAI engineer faces charges over an alleged covert recording device. Attackers exploit a PAN-OS firewall flaw and an Ivanti zero-day. Aoki infostealer hunts AI credentials. Researchers uncover critical weaknesses in an AI gateway. CikaBika Bot turns Discord into a command center. Online ads deliver mercenary spyware without a click. Microsoft disrupts a massive Chinese-language phishing operation. And INTERPOL leads an international crackdown on child sexual abuse material. Character.ai runs out of tokens.

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Today, we are featuring Kieran Human, Lead Cybersecurity Engineer at ThreatLocker, who guested on Hacking Humans with Maria Varmazis and Joe Carrigan this week. Tune in to listen to their full conversation here and join the crew including Dave Bittner every Thursday on your favorite podcast app.

Selected Reading

Office of Public Affairs | Saudi National Arrested for Installing Surreptitious Audio Recording Device at OpenAI (US Department of Justice)

Attackers exploit Palo Alto PAN-OS flaw for root access as CISA orders three-day fix (CSO Online)

CISA Warns of Hackers Exploiting Ivanti Connect Secure Zero-Day to Steal Credentials (Cyber Security News)

New Aoki Infostealer Targets AI Coding Assistant Credentials (Infosecurity Magazine)

Warning Over High-Risk Vulnerabilities in Widely Used LLM Gateway Tool (Infosecurity Magazine)

CikaBika Bot RAT Uses Discord for C&C (SecurityWeek)

AdFection: How mercenary spyware invades victims’ devices through targeted advertising (CyberScoop)

Police arrests 95 suspects in international CSAM crackdown action (Bleeping Computer)

Character.ai Bankruptcy Is First AI Bubble Domino to Fall (404 Media)

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