Brazos Wortham
Co-Host of Scinary Information Nexus
Brazos Wortham has hosted 31 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 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 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 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.