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by Rich Greene
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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- 5 days ago10 min
North Korea Mastra NPM Supply Chain Attack: How It Works
You installed a dependency before lunch. Tests passed, app booted, nothing looked wrong. By dinner, your machine had quietly run someone else's code. This episode covers the Mastra npm supply chain compromise Microsoft attributed to North Korea linked threat actors. We break down how postinstall scripts became the attack vector, why an 88 minute exposure window still matters, and what remote access trojans do on developer endpoints. You will learn how AI framework supply chains expand your ...
- 1 weeks ago9 min
Patch Tuesday 206 Vulnerabilities: AI Discovery vs Remediation Speed
Your update dashboard keeps climbing. Not ten fixes, not fifty. Two hundred and six security patches waiting for approval, and everyone is asking if work stops now. That was June 2026, the largest Patch Tuesday on record. This episode covers why record patch volumes are becoming normal, what AI-assisted vulnerability discovery has to do with the bug pipeline, how to prioritize under pressure with a four-lens triage framework (exploitability, exposure, impact, compensating controls), and why...
- 2 weeks ago8 min
Instagram AI Takeover: How Attackers Exploited Meta Support Bots
Your profile photo vanishes. Your email is changed. A password reset you never requested lands in someone else's inbox. You're locked out of your own Instagram account, and you didn't click a single suspicious link. In early 2026, attackers manipulated Meta's AI support chatbot to approve password resets on roughly 20,225 Instagram accounts over seven weeks. This episode breaks down how social engineering evolved from targeting human support reps to exploiting AI-powered customer service sy...
- 3 weeks ago9 min
FortiBleed: When Your Firewall Becomes the Front Door
Your firewall is supposed to be the thing that keeps attackers out. FortiBleed is the story of what happens when it becomes the way in. In June 2026, roughly 86,644 sets of working Fortinet credentials turned up circulating among attackers across 194 countries. On June 18th, CISA issued an emergency advisory telling anyone running internet-facing Fortinet gear to terminate active sessions, rotate every credential, and turn on phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication immediately. This ...
- Jun 26, 202610 min
Post-Quantum Cryptography: Start the Inventory Before Q-Day
You don't inventory your house the morning of the move. You start months before. So why are most organizations still treating post-quantum cryptography as a 2035 problem? Episode 31 of Plaintext with Rich treats the post-quantum crypto migration as what it actually is. A logistics problem, not a science one. We walk through the news peg that moved the timeline. Google's March 2026 announcement of a 2029 internal deadline, years ahead of federal targets, anchored by Craig Gidney's resea...
- Jun 19, 202610 min
Cybersecurity Careers and AI: The Squeeze and the Opening
Someone pulled Rich aside at a conference recently. Six years in IT, ready to break into security, and asking the question more people ask every week. Should I even bother right now? Here's what the data actually shows. Episode 30 of Plaintext with Rich unpacks the cybersecurity career paradox of 2026. The bottom rung is getting squeezed as AI automates SOC analyst, threat intelligence, and incident response work. At the same time, demand for AI security engineers, prompt injection specialist...
- Jun 12, 20268 min
Supply Chain Attacks: How One Update Hit OpenAI
A routine software update. No phishing. No sketchy download. Then a security team finds the unthinkable: trusted code has been hijacked, and the breach rode in through the exact channels engineers rely on every day. I walk through the supply chain attacks that piled up across April and May 2026, including poisoned open source packages tied to TanStack and trojanized Daemon Tools installers, plus the rapid-fire abuse of major software registries like NPM, PyPI, and Docker Hub. The most ...
- Jun 5, 20269 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...
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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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