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Risky Business #823 -- Humans impersonate clawdbots impersonating humans

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Show Notes

Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau are joined by the newest guy on the Risky Business Media team, James WIlson. They discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

Notepad++ update supply chain attack has been attributed to China The AI agent future is even more stupid than expected; behold the OpenClaw/Clawdbot/Moltbook mess The Epstein files claim he had a personal hacker? Microsoft is finally getting ready to (think about starting to begin to) disable NTLM by default The usual bugs in the usual things! Ivanti, Fortinet, and Solarwinds. Again. Telco hides a free trip in its privacy policy, someone actually reads it and wins!

This weeks’s episode is sponsored by opensource IDP platform Authentik. CEO Fletcher Heisler talks to Pat about their new endpoint agent that can enforce device posture policies during login.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

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