About the show
Scinary Cybersecurity is here to "Serve and defend those who serve and defend others". To help us "serve and defend" we pull from many different sources - experts, colleagues, industry standards, etc... We hit every subject from all angles making it easy to understand while also letting us go in depth. Making this podcast perfect for cybersecurity beginners and experts alike. Come join us on our journey to constantly educate ourselves and explore the amazing things that are happening in our industry.
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Episodes
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Episode 49: Breach or BS: Testing our Cyber Knowledge
June 19th, 2026 | Season 3 | 1 hr 3 mins
The Scinary crew takes a break from AI talk to play a hilarious and eye-opening game of "Breach or BS," testing their knowledge on some of the wildest real-world cyber attacks.
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Episode 48: Is AI Replacing Your Job or Just Burning Billions?
June 12th, 2026 | Season 3 | 1 hr 3 mins
The Scinary crew cracks open some melomel and dives into the realities of AI labor replacement, the automation paradox, and the trillion-dollar financial engineering behind SpaceX and Anthropic's intertwined IPOs.
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Episode 47: K-12 Cybersecurity: Student Shadow IT & Vendor Breaches
June 5th, 2026 | Season 3 | 55 mins 34 secs
Richard sits down with three K-12 IT professionals from rural Texas to discuss student shadow IT, the Instructure breach, and how AI is changing the classroom.
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Episode 46: Verizon DBIR 2026: Why Vibe Coding is Fueling Exploits
May 29th, 2026 | Season 3 | 1 hr 16 mins
The Scinary team cracks open some blackberry melomel and the latest Verizon DBIR to discuss the massive spike in vulnerability exploits, AI's real role in hacking, and why ransomware payments are plummeting.
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Episode 45: Is Your School's Tech Now Illegal In Texas?
May 22nd, 2026 | Season 3 | 1 hr 10 mins
The team breaks down Instructure's rumored $10M ransom payment to Shiny Hunters and tears into the confusing Texas Cyber Command ban on Lenovo and Motorola Mobility that is creating chaos for local school districts
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Episode 43: Texas Cyber Command's $100M RFP & Supply Chain Hacks
May 8th, 2026 | Season 3 | 1 hr 2 mins
The crew deciphers aggressive new solicitations from Texas Cyber Command and breaks down the terrifying reality of open-source supply chain hacks.
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Episode 42: Pawn Shop Forensics, Palantir & Techno-Feudalism
May 1st, 2026 | Season 3 | 54 mins 29 secs
cybersecurity, infosec, opnsense, osint, threatintel
This week on Scinary Information Nexus, Pierre Vivoni fills in as the crew dives into topics like pawn shop laptop forensics, BitLocker security, techno-feudalism, and how AI hardware hoarding is driving up SSD and RAM costs. They also discuss deceptive open-source models, Palantir's government ties, and why tech marketing keeps the public disconnected from basic IT realities.
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Episode 41: Is Your EDR Actually A Government Backdoor?
April 17th, 2026 | Season 3 | 1 hr 1 min
The Scinary Information Nexus crew breaks down a severe CISA advisory on Iranian cyber threats before spiraling into a hilarious and terrifying debate on cybersecurity conspiracy theories, the Third-Party Doctrine, and government surveillance.
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Episode 40: When Google Deletes Your Workspace & Intune Becomes a Weapon
April 3rd, 2026 | Season 3 | 59 mins 25 secs
The team tackles a trio of wild stories shaking up the tech world. They start with the breaking news of a Supermicro co-founder's arrest for allegedly smuggling $2.5 billion in GPUs to China, debating the true motives behind the crime. Next, they do a deep dive into the massive Stryker breach, revealing how attackers bypassed MFA and used a built-in Microsoft Intune "wipe" feature to cause destruction. Finally, they uncover a nightmare scenario where Google permanently deleted a K-12 school's entire digital workspace without warning after a compromised admin account was used to send bulk spam. Plus, Brazos shares a hilarious personal story about almost falling for a phone scam.
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Episode 39: Weaponizing Trust: The Threat of Compromised MDMs
March 20th, 2026 | Season 3 | 1 hr 8 secs
Richard is back in the studio as the team dissects the massive cyberattack on medical device giant Stryker. They break down how an Iranian-backed hacktivist group (Handala) managed to shut down 70 global offices and wipe 20,000 machines-including the personal phones of employees connected to the company's mobile device management (MDM).
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Episode 38: Running a Security Operations Center: The Good, The Bad & The AI
March 13th, 2026 | Season 3 | 1 hr 15 mins
Brazos, Joseph, Hunter, and Mario-all current or former SOC managers-take over to do a deep dive into the reality of managing a Security Operations Center. They expose the truth behind fake "reseller" SOCs that rely solely on automated ticket forwarding, while discussing the critical need for human-led incident response. The team also tackles the hype around AI in cybersecurity, the pros and cons of "jack of all trades" analysts versus hyper-specialists, and shares highly practical advice for anyone trying to land their first job in the cybersecurity industry.
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Episode 37: Are Tech Vendors Gaming E-Rate?
March 6th, 2026 | Season 3 | 1 hr 8 mins
The team is joined by E-Rate expert Ginnie Harwood from Bespoke Consulting to demystify how schools and libraries actually get the money to fund their network and cybersecurity infrastructure. They dive into the history of the FCC's E-Rate program, the red tape of Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) compliance, and expose the shady ways vendors try to game the RFP and competitive bidding systems. They also tackle the rollout of the FCC's new $200M Cybersecurity Pilot Program, questioning why massive, well-funded districts are getting a slice of a pie originally intended to help rural, under-resourced schools.