The Future of Surveillance and Privacy in the Age of AI | Nicole Ozer
Nicole Ozer, new executive director at the EFF, talks about AI and surveillance concerns.
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The Challenge of Hacking Back, the Origins of ExploitGym, and Water Plant Attacks
This week we discuss the new White House memo on using private sector operators in offensive cyber operations, Lindsey’s deep dive into the origins of the ExploitGym AI benchmark, and the rash of attacks on water utilities in the U.S. Links Inside ExploitGym: https://decipher.sc/2026/08/20/inside… White House memo: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidenti… OpenAI post: https://openai.com/index/the-defender…
The truth about AI model security and what’s coming next | Gary McGraw
AI security pioneer and machine learning expert Gary McGraw helps Dennis separate the facts from fiction about the recent OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic model escapes, what the real risks to enterprises are from agentic AI, and what he sees as the true threats on the horizon.
The OpenAI and Hugging Face Intrusion Wasn’t Enough, So Now Anthropic Wants In
This week we talk about the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident and what it means for those companies and the way that AI models are tested, and then we discuss Anthropic’s entry into the race with its own admission that some of its models escaped the playground and attacked outside organizations. Links OpenAI-Hugging Face intrusion: https://decipher.sc/2026/07/29/openai… Anthropic […]
JADEPUFFER: The Era of Agentic Ransomware Has Begun | Michael Clark
Michael Clark, director of Threat Research at Sysdig, talks about a recent LLM-driven extortion campaign dubbed JADEPUFFER, touching on how the team discovered it, how attackers’ “intent is now legible,” and what that means for defenders. Links Sysdig research: https://www.sysdig.com/blog/jadepuffe… https://www.sysdig.com/blog/jadepuffe…
The Cursor Bug Drama, Microsoft’s Massive Patch Tuesday, and Scattered Spider Takes a Hit
This week we have some old-school disclosure drama when a researcher used full disclosure after months of silence from Cursor, then we discuss the enormous Patch Tuesday from Microsoft–662 bugs–and what it might mean going forward, and finally some news about DoJ sanctions and Scattered Spider members being sentenced. Links Cursor bug: https://decipher.sc/2026/07/15/bug-in… First VPN […]