The next name on CISA's door.

Dave Bittner

President Trump nominated Michael Lasapio, Chief Information Security officer at Palantir Technologies to lead the cyber security and infrastructure security agency.

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A few things have changed and and the single biggest one is that we now have AI in the hands of hackers.

SPEAKER_B

I think June of 26 was the biggest month for for patches of of Windows and Linux and everything we'd ever seen by, you know, factor of two or three.

Dave Bittner

leaning on standardized frameworks to turn disparate breach alerts into actionable national intelligence.

Dave Bittner

State sponsored cyber sabotage has crossed into everyday retail operations across Europe.

Dave Bittner

In France alone, actors remotely altered temperatures at over 700 supermarkets, forcing units into defrost cycles and triggering fires and equipment failures.

Dave Bittner

Deployed against national government bodies in Kazakhstan and Romania, the malware eliminates dedicated external command and control servers.

SPEAKER_B

You know, I think the absolute headline level, it's sort of shift more of the effort towards prevention.

SPEAKER_B

And the kinds of techniques which have been developed in recent years, you know, often under the heading of of zero trust.

SPEAKER_B

Then, you know, I think the the thing that has really accelerated this year, perhaps even more is is this idea of micro segmentation or asset protection, we sometimes call it.

Dave Bittner

According to ENISA's biennial state of cyber security in the Union report, the block averaged 71.5 points out of 100 on its 2026 cyber security index.

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prompting some researchers to question whether algorithmic shortcuts might unravel the foundational math securing modern encryption.

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Minimax,

Dave Bittner

Barracuda Networks is urging administrators to patch immediately as threat actors actively target two critical vulnerabilities in its email security gateway appliances.