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Cybersecurity is an everyone problem. So why does it always sound like it’s only for IT people?Each week, Rich takes one topic, from phishing to ransomware to how your phone actually tracks you, and explains it in plain language in under ten minutes or less. No buzzwords. No condescension. Just the stuff you need to know to stay safer online, explained like you’re a smart person who never had anyone break it down properly. Because you are!
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- Today9 min
Microsoft Exchange Zero-Day Under Attack: One Email Hijacks OWA
It's Monday morning. You open the third email of the day. Nothing visible happens, but in the background, an attacker just borrowed the proof you were logged in. Episode 28 of Plaintext with Rich is a hot take on CVE-2026-42897, the Microsoft Exchange Server zero-day under active exploitation right now. We break down what cross-site scripting actually does inside Outlook Web Access, why session hijacking is more dangerous than the underlying bug, and how a single crafted email becomes busines...
- 1 weeks ago8 min
Work-Life Balance in Cybersecurity: The Structural Fix
You finish at 6:00pm. At 6:47 you reopen the laptop, 'just to check something.' By 9:00 the evening is gone. The boundary didn't fail tonight. It was never there. Episode 27 of Plaintext with Rich closes the Month of Mindfulness, a five-week series on self-care for people working in security and tech. This week we're talking about work-life balance, but not as willpower or time management. As protective infrastructure. We pull the arc together, mental, spiritual, physical, and burnout, and la...
- 2 weeks ago8 min
Cybersecurity Burnout: Not a Character Flaw, a System Problem
You're reading a breach report. Third one this month. Last year a story like this would have lit something in you. Today you scroll past it. That's not you. That's the bill. Episode 26 of Plaintext with Rich is the fourth installment of the Month of Mindfulness, a five-week series on self-care for people working in security and tech. This week we're talking about burnout, what it actually is and why the cybersecurity industry produces it reliably. We use the World Health Organization's classi...
- 3 weeks ago7 min
Physical Health in Cybersecurity: The Body Keeps the Receipts
It's Friday morning. You stand up to refill your water and your back doesn’t move the way it used to. The systems are up and running smoothly. Your body hasn’t gotten the same memo. Episode 25 of Plaintext with Rich is the third installment of the Month of Mindfulness, a five-week series on self-care for people working in security and tech. This week we’re talking about physical health, the silent receipt your body keeps for the cumulative load of this job. We get into the specific body costs...
- 4 weeks ago8 min
Spiritual Health in Cybersecurity: The Why Behind the Work
Spiritual health on a cybersecurity podcast sounds like a stretch. Stay with us. Because somewhere between the vendor pitches, the patch cycles, and the 3 a.m. page, a lot of us stopped working for the why and started working for the number. Episode 24 of Plaintext with Rich is the second installment of the Month of Mindfulness, a five-week series on self-care for people working in security and tech. This week we define spiritual health as the values that make up who you are, the things you w...
- May 1, 20267 min
Mental Health in Cybersecurity: The Weight of Vigilance
It's 6:47 a.m. The incident was contained hours ago. The systems are fine. You're the one still running hot. This episode opens the Month of Mindfulness, a five-week Plaintext with Rich series on mental health, spiritual health, physical health, burnout, and work-life balance for people working in cybersecurity and tech. May 1 happens to fall during Mental Health Awareness Month, which makes it the right time to start. We're talking about the mental load that comes with vigilance work: on-cal...
- Apr 24, 20269 min
Threat Intelligence: Why Most Organizations Get It Backwards
A dashboard lights up with indicators of compromise. The analyst copies the top five into a ticket, tags it "actionable," and sends it to the SOC. Nobody reads it not because they don't care, but because it didn't tell them what to do or why it mattered. That's not an intelligence failure. That's a confusion about what intelligence actually is. This episode breaks down threat intelligence from the ground up, drawing on Rich's military experience as a case officer in special operations. It sep...
- Apr 17, 202610 min
Roll for Security: What D&D Teaches About Cyber Defense
The fighter absorbs hits up front. The rogue finds traps before the party walks into them. The cleric keeps everyone alive when things go wrong. And the bard convinces the people with resources to actually fund the quest. Nobody does everything. Everybody has a role. Now replace the dungeon with your company's network. This episode maps cybersecurity roles to D&D character classes, SOC analysts as fighters, pen testers as rogues, incident response as clerics, security architects as wizard...
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Cybersecurity is an everyone problem. So why does it always sound like it’s only for IT people?Each week, Rich takes one topic, from phishing to ransomware to how your phone actually tracks you, and explains it in plain language in under ten minutes or less. No buzzwords. No condescension. Just the stuff you need to know to stay safer online, explained like you’re a smart person who never had anyone break it down properly. Because you are!
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