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 53: Cybersecurity Tool Overload: Are You Wasting Money?
August 7th, 2026 | Season 3 | 1 hr 11 mins
Brazos fills in for Richard as the crew dissects the realities of defense in depth, exploring alert fatigue, budget constraints, and what a truly infinite cybersecurity budget would look like.
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Episode 52: K-12 Cybersecurity & Third-Party Risks with Matt Wilkin
July 24th, 2026 | Season 3 | 55 mins 50 secs
This week, Richard, Joseph, and Brazos chat with Matt about his 17 years in K-12 IT.
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Episode 51: Anthropic Lawsuit & Broken CVEs
July 17th, 2026 | Season 3 | 45 mins 39 secs
The crew unpacks Anthropic's logo lawsuit against Abnormal, the dangers of AI dependency, and how security teams can survive a broken CVE system spewing out 66,000 vulnerabilities a year.
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Episode 50: From Blackberries to Wiretaps: Presidents and Tech History
July 3rd, 2026 | Season 3 | 39 mins 57 secs
The Scinary crew takes a break from the heavy cyber news to test their knowledge on presidential tech trivia, debating everything from Obama's stripped-down Blackberry to Civil War wiretaps.
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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.