Want to be the first to hear our episodes each week?  Become a Patreon donor here. Here are the stories we discuss this week: https://cybersecuritynews.com/hackers-actively-compromising-databases/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-target-university-hr-employees-in-payroll-pirate-attacks/ https://securityaffairs.com/183154/security/threat-actors-steal-firewall-configs-impacting-all-sonicwall-cloud-backup-users.html https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/07/gen_ai_shadow_it_secrets/ https://thehackernews.com/2025/10/from-phishing-to-malware-ai-becomes.html?m=1 https://databreaches.net/2025/10/12/from-sizzle-to-drizzle-to-fizzle-the-massive-data-leak-that-wasnt/