Brazos Wortham
Co-Host of Scinary Information Nexus
Brazos Wortham has hosted 38 Episodes.
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Episode 63: Is Your Ransomware Negotiator Working With Hackers?
October 23rd, 2026 | Season 3 | 53 mins 12 secs
The crew endures ghost pepper cocktails while breaking down weaponized ChatGPT custom models running ClickFix lures, shocking corruption among ransomware negotiators partnering with ShinyHunters, and hacked French refrigerators.
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Episode 61: AI in Higher Ed: Shadow IT, TAC 219 & Campus Modernization
October 9th, 2026 | Season 3 | 59 mins 30 secs
Sebastian Barron from Paris Junior College joins the team to discuss integrating IT into executive strategy, safely adopting AI across campus, and modernizing higher ed infrastructure.
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Episode 60: Cloud Persistence: Rogue MFA, OAuth and Passkeys
October 2nd, 2026 | Season 3 | 40 mins 20 secs
The Scinary team breaks down an aggressive wave of automated AiTM Gmail compromises flooding schools, bypassing MFA through Google Docs, and exhausting IT teams through sheer attrition.
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Episode 59: Texas Drops TAC 219: What New AI Rules Mean for You
September 25th, 2026 | Season 3 | 50 mins 16 secs
The team unpacks the Texas Administrative Code Chapter 219 AI governance rules for schools and local governments, delves into recent phishing spikes, and tests their knowledge with retro hacker history trivia.
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Episode 57: Cybersecurity Myths Debunked: AI, VPNs & Cloud
September 11th, 2026 | Season 3 | 56 mins 17 secs
The team reunites to debunk the most dangerous misconceptions in cybersecurity, from AI hype and VPN marketing to the illusion of cloud security.
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Episode 55: ClickFix & Phishing Attacks: The Back-to-School Surge
August 28th, 2026 | Season 3 | 1 hr 2 mins
The team breaks down the massive back-to-school surge in ClickFix and BEC attacks, and explains why traditional cybersecurity training is failing to stop them.
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Episode 54: The Consumer Cybersecurity Gap: Botnets, Gamers & ClickFix
August 14th, 2026 | Season 3 | 1 hr 1 min
The Scinary crew tackles the glaring gap in consumer cybersecurity, the rising threat to critical infrastructure, and why free antivirus software might actually be working against you.
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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.