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Cybersecurity is an everyone problem. So why does it always sound like it’s only for IT people?Each week, Rich takes one topic, from phishing to ransomware to how your phone actually tracks you, and explains it in plain language in under ten minutes or less. No buzzwords. No condescension. Just the stuff you need to know to stay safer online, explained like you’re a smart person who never had anyone break it down properly. Because you are!
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- 2 days ago5 min
Last Seen - The Meeting Place (Episode 3)
Episode 3: The Meeting Place Leah and her parent are both moving across the city, but every piece of information arrives too late. Each new clue leads to another place the other person has already left. With phones, maps, and location sharing still unreliable, a forgotten family emergency plan may be their only chance to stop missing each other. In Part Three of Last Seen, the search leads to a broken clock in Washington Park and a meeting place no one has mentioned in years. I...
- 1 weeks ago5 min
Last Seen - The Rumor (Episode 2)
Episode 2: The Rumor A broken voice message offers one clue: “We’re going to St—” But St. where? As Leah’s parent searches hospitals, shelters, and gridlocked streets, the communications outage creates another problem. Reliable information is moving slowly, while rumors are racing across the city. In Part Two of Last Seen, a paper map, a neighborhood radio network, and a small act of trust become more useful than any app. Then a handwritten note sends the search in an entirely new direction. ...
- 2 weeks ago6 min
Last Seen - No Signal (Episode 1)
Plaintext is doing something different this September. Instead of breaking down one cybersecurity concept, we’re telling one story across four short episodes. In Episode One of Last Seen, an ordinary communications outage begins with a frozen card reader, missing messages, and apps that no longer work. By nightfall, Leah hasn’t come home and her parent has only a broken voice message and half a clue about where she might be. This is “No Signal,” the first chapter of Last Seen: a fictional spo...
- 3 weeks ago9 min
Google Selfie Account Recovery: Convenience vs. Privacy
Would you hand Google a video of your face for one more way back into your account? That question gets harder when you are locked out, holding a new phone, and missing every recovery route you thought would save you. In this episode of Plaintext with Rich, we look at Google's selfie video sign-in option and what eligible users should know before opting in. You will hear how Google described comparing a saved recording with a new video, why prompted head movements support a liveness check, and...
- Aug 21, 202610 min
AI Security Test Escape: Why Agent Containment Failed
An AI security test was supposed to stay inside a controlled environment. Instead, the models found an unexpected route to the public Internet and reached real Hugging Face infrastructure while pursuing benchmark answers. In this episode of Plaintext with Rich, we unpack how an OpenAI cyber evaluation became a real security incident. You will hear how the models exploited a package service, increased their permissions, used stolen credentials, and pursued ExploitGym solutions beyond the inten...
- Aug 14, 202610 min
PTC Windchill Vulnerability: Why Your Product Blueprints Are at Risk
A company can lose its most valuable product plans without a broken lock, an encrypted laptop, or an obvious warning on the screen. The first clear sign may be an extortion email claiming the files are already gone. This episode of Plaintext with Rich explains the attacks disclosed against PTC Windchill and FlexPLM, two product lifecycle management platforms that can hold designs, bills of materials, manufacturing instructions, supplier details, and launch plans. Rich breaks down CVE-2026-125...
- Aug 7, 20269 min
CVE-2026-50522: Why SharePoint Patching Is Only Step One
A critical SharePoint alert arrives, the update goes in, and the ticket closes. But what if an attacker entered before the lock was fixed and left with secrets that still work? In this episode of Plaintext with Rich, Rich explains why CVE-2026-50522 is more than an ordinary patch story. The actively exploited remote code execution flaw affects on-premises Microsoft SharePoint Server, including SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016, SharePoint Server 2019, and SharePoint Server Subscription Editio...
- Jul 31, 20268 min
AutoJack Attack: How Malicious Pages Hijack AI Browsing Agents
You told your AI assistant to book a flight and compare hotels. You come back, and it did all of that. It also ran commands on your machine that you never approved. What just happened? This episode unpacks AutoJack, a demonstrated attack pattern where malicious web pages hijack AI browsing agents through prompt injection. We cover how untrusted web content can steer autonomous agents into unsafe actions, the critical risk of localhost access in agent frameworks like AutoGen, and the chain f...
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Cybersecurity is an everyone problem. So why does it always sound like it’s only for IT people?Each week, Rich takes one topic, from phishing to ransomware to how your phone actually tracks you, and explains it in plain language in under ten minutes or less. No buzzwords. No condescension. Just the stuff you need to know to stay safer online, explained like you’re a smart person who never had anyone break it down properly. Because you are!
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