Mario Ortiz
Co-Host of Scinary Information Nexus
Yo! It's your favorite SOC Analyst Mario Ortiz here, back at it again to take a trip down the tech-world rabbit hole. Along with my co-host, come join us as we dive into all sorts of topics from complex to more complex. As we increase our knowledge on Cyber Security and the Tech world in general, we're sure you won't regret tunning into your Scinary Information Nexus.
Mario Ortiz has hosted 47 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 62: Polymorphic Phishing & Vendor Breaches
October 16th, 2026 | Season 3 | 52 mins 57 secs
The Scinary crew tackles automated polymorphic phishing campaigns, the illusion of third-party vendor assurance after the Frontline Education breach, and an unexpected false alarm involving YouTube autoplay.
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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 58: Is Your MSP Actually Securing Your Network?
September 18th, 2026 | Season 3 | 46 mins 25 secs
The crew dissects the risks of outsourcing IT to MSPs, unpacks a vendor's questionable data routing to China, and explores the massive wave of automated attacks bypassing MFA on Google Workspace accounts.
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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 56: Untitled Episode
September 4th, 2026 | Season 3 | 1 hr 9 mins
Join Brazos and Joseph as they break down recent executive orders on infrastructure and map out the ultimate step-by-step guide to building a cybersecurity program from scratch.
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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 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.