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Go from monotonous to autonomous IT operations with this series. Hosts from Automox, the IT automation platform for modern organizations, will cover the latest IT trends; Patch Tuesday remediations; ways to save time with Worklets (pre-built scripts); reduce risk; slash complexity; and automate OS, third-party, and configuration updates on all your Windows, macOS, and Linux endpoints.
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- 3 weeks ago12 min
Patch [FIX] Tuesday: October 2026 – [An Exploited MOTW Bypass and a Reading Pane RCE], E37
Another heavy Patch Tuesday, and Serena DiPenti and Seth Hoyt start with the bug Microsoft confirms attackers are already using: a Windows Shell flaw that gets files past Mark of the Web. A user still has to open the file, but it opens with no SmartScreen warning, no Protected View, and no macro block, and Microsoft rates it only Important.They also cover:Why one of the credited finders on that Shell bug used Anthropic's Claude, and what AI-assisted research is doing to the report volume at every vulnerability disclosure programAn Outlook remote code execution bug that fires when a crafted email shows in the Reading Pane, with no open and no click, and why Office updates need checking separately from Windows updatesDon't let the severity label set your order. Patch the exploited bug first, and confirm Office actually updated.
- Sep 8, 202623 min
Patch [FIX] Tuesday – [973 CVEs and a New Patch Tuesday Record], Ep. 36
Labor Day is over and Microsoft made up for the day off. Landon Miles and Serena DiPenti sort September's Patch Tuesday down to the six bugs that matter, starting with the only one Microsoft confirms is already exploited: a Windows Update Stack privilege escalation that hands attackers SYSTEM, published with no score and no affected-product list.They also cover:- An unauthenticated remote code execution in Windows DNS Server, rated more likely to be exploited, and why it's a domain controller problem for most shops- A Remote Desktop Services bug that scores 9.8 but carries an Important label, and why the label shouldn't set your patch order- SQL Copilot in Management Studio ignoring its own read-only restrictions, and where the real guardrail belongs- An Outlook flaw that fires from the Reading Pane with no click, and why a Microsoft 365 subscription doesn't mean the fix is already installed- An Exchange Server bug that lets one low-privilege mailbox impersonate every other userPlus macOS Tahoe 26.6.2 and what's behind the month's record CVE count. Know what you run, patch the exploited one first, then work down your list.
- Aug 25, 202642 min
Autonomous IT, Live! Turn to Face the StrAInge, Patch Speed vs AI Attacks, E08
In April, Jason Kikta and Dmitri Alperovitch landed on a structural conclusion: AI had collapsed patch-to-exploit time to under an hour, 1-10-60 was no longer fast enough, and the only answer was prevention. Patch by default, limit blast radius, stop playing a detection-and-response game built for human-speed attacks. This episode picks up where that conversation ended. What's changed since April, and can detection-first models survive the pace of change at all? Kat Traxler is here to stress test that question from the inside.Guests: Jason Kikta, Automox CTO, Dmitri Alperovitch, Co-Founder and Chairman, Silverado Policy AcceleratorKat Traxler, Principal Security Researcher, Vectra AIHost: Landon Miles
- Aug 11, 202622 min
Patch [FIX] Tuesday – [Race Conditions, Registry Hives, and Cloud CVEs], Ep. 35
August 2026 delivers the second-largest Patch Tuesday on record with nearly 400 CVEs, and Landon Miles, Jason Kikta, and Serena DiPenti sort out which ones actually matter. They start with the only actively exploited vulnerability of the month, CVE-2026-68820, a use-after-free in the Windows AFD driver that trades a race condition for SYSTEM privileges. Serena breaks down CVE-2026-62832, a User Profile Service privilege escalation that lets an attacker load another user's registry hive with no user interaction required.Then there's the perfect 10.0 in Microsoft Teams that nobody needs to patch. Jason explains how cloud CVEs ended up in Patch Tuesday releases, why a third of this month's critical count requires zero customer action, and why the industry needs a separate disclosure mechanism before monthly CVE volume becomes pure noise. The crew also covers an ugly macOS screen sharing vulnerability that allowed authentication without credentials, the Linux kernel community's shift to issuing CVEs at scale, fresh takes from Black Hat and DEF CON on AI-driven vulnerability discovery, and why frontier models are forcing patching decisions to happen by policy instead of one CVE at a time.Patch your stuff. See you next month.
- Jul 22, 202617 min
Secure IT – PKI, Certificates, and What Breaks When Trust Fails, E22
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) underpins nearly every secure interaction in modern IT, but it's also one of the most misunderstood and overlooked foundations of security.In this episode of Secure IT, host Jason Kikta is joined by Mark Cooper, CEO and founder of PKI Solutions, to unpack why PKI is so critical to identity, authentication, and trust, and what happens when it fails.They explore how certificates enable passwordless authentication, secure TLS connections, IoT devices, endpoints, and enterprise systems, while also examining why misconfigured or poorly monitored PKI environments often become an attacker's fastest path to privilege escalation. From certificate expirations and operational outages to real-world breach scenarios and pen test failures, this conversation maps the full PKI risk spectrum.Jason and Mark also challenge a common assumption in cybersecurity: that recovery equals resilience. Instead, they argue that true resilience means staying secure and operational, even during misconfiguration, failure, or attack.Whether you're new to PKI or responsible for running it, this episode will change how you think about identity infrastructure, resilience, and trust.Topics covered:- What PKI is and why most organizations already depend on it- Certificates, passwordless authentication, and digital identity- How PKI misconfigurations enable high-impact attacks- Why recovery is the weakest form of resilience- The hidden operational and security risks of foundational systems
- Jul 14, 202629 min
Patch [FIX] Tuesday – [The 570-CVE Month], Ep. 34
570 vulnerabilities. That's July's Patch Tuesday count, nearly triple last month and a record by a wide margin. Jason Kikta is joined by host Landon Miles and offensive-security researcher Serena DiPenti for the July 2026 rundown:An Active Directory Federation Services bug (CVE-2026-56155) already exploited in the wild, rated a deceptively low 7.8A 9.8 DHCP client flaw (CVE-2026-49181) that reaches every Windows endpoint on the networkAn RDP bug you can shut down with a single setting, no patch requiredA SharePoint deserialization flaw (CVE-2026-50522) reachable by anyone with site-owner accessA 9.9 Hyper-V escape that lets one compromised VM take the whole hostA BitLocker bypass (6.1) worth knowing if you manage laptops in the fieldPlus why hacker summer camp turns every July into a bug dump, and what a 570-CVE release says about how much AI is really driving vulnerability discovery.
- Jul 1, 202615 min
Executive IT – What IT hiring actually looks like when AI does the work, E07
Eighteen months after the Hands-On IT podcast tackled the state of IT careers, Chelsea Rickey, SVP of Human Resources at Automox, comes back to the conversation to assess what held up, what changed, and what nobody quite predicted.AI is no longer a future-state problem. It's already reshaping what roles look like, how productivity gets measured, and how organizations coordinate. Individual learning agility still matters, but Chelsea argues the harder question now is whether organizations can adapt as fast as the people inside them.
- Jun 11, 202627 min
Product Talk – CISA's BOD 26-04 Directive Explained, E26
CISA's BOD 26-04 replaces severity-based patching with an exploit-evidence model and remediation clocks as short as three days, fleet-wide, no exceptions. Peter Pflaster and Jason Kikta unpack the four urgency signals, the 16-row decision tree, and the shift from "justify the patch" to "justify why you can't." They also cover what it means for contractors, cyber insurance, and the future of Patch Tuesday. If you own patching or vulnerability management, start here.
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