# Tim Stark

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Meta’s recovery plan needed recovery.

Meta exposes 20,000 Instagram accounts through a support tool bug. CISA warns of active attacks on SolarWinds Serv-U. WordPress sites face takeover through a widely used plugin. A new Gafgyt variant broadens its reach. Pink extortionists steal cloud data with vishing and legitimate tools. Plus, all…

Inside Operation Disruption Week: Taking Down Southeast Asia's Scam Machine

What does it actually take to dismantle an industrial-scale scam operation running bulletproof hosting, distributed ASNs, and crypto laundering across multiple countries? Mike Sweeney of Silent Push was in the room during Operation Disruption Week and tells us exactly how it went down — the intelli…

How security investigators can get the right info out of AI security tools

This week on Safe Mode, Greg sits down with Dov Yoran, CEO and co-founder of Command Zero, to talk about one of the most persistent problems in enterprise security: the investigation gap. Alert volumes keep climbing, SOC teams are drowning in triage, and the tools meant to help are aggregating data…

Behind the friendly face.

Hugging Face reports an autonomous AI-powered breach. Ernst & Young discloses a client data breach. Attackers are actively exploiting a critical ServiceNow flaw. Ransomware gangs sharpen their tactics against law firms. Capital One open-sources an AI security tool. Text salting fools AI email filte…

Water you waiting for?

Cyberattacks hit U.S. water systems. CISA tackles open source security. China’s surveillance machine is exposed. Hotel Wi-Fi gets riskier. Healthcare and police data spill online. Fake SQLite vulnerabilities fool security databases. Monday business briefing. Our guest is Tim Starks from CyberScoop …

Rethinking how federal cyber hiring actually works

The federal government can't reliably say how many cybersecurity workers it has or what they cost — and that uncertainty sits at the heart of a much bigger question: is federal cyber training working, and can it keep pace with a field that's changing by the month? On this episode of Safe Mode, hos…

Let’s kill the kill switch.

Could an AI kill switch create more problems than it solves? A critical Rails flaw is under active attack. Malicious browser extensions steal cryptocurrency. Fire Ant targets trusted network infrastructure. Claude Code gets tricked into running attacker-controlled code. MyChart phishing scams sprea…

Defending in the middle of the vulnpocalypse

CyberScoop editor-in-chief Greg Otto talks with WatchTowr founder and CEO Ben Harris about how cybersecurity teams are adapting as AI accelerates vulnerability discovery, public proof-of-concepts, and exploitation timelines. They discuss the WordPress-to-shell case study, why mitigation has become …

Bigfoot in the neural network.

NSA preps a major restructuring. Anthropic’s CEO calls for an AI slowdown. China acknowledges AI risks. RubyGems got swarmed by AI agents.  A maximum-severity GitLab vulnerability is under active exploitation. Direct Send abuse makes phishing emails appear legit. A British fintech firm leaks sensit…

The AI hotline.

The U.S. and China agree on an AI safety channel. Some states say CISA’s election security plan comes too late. Citrix patches critical zero-days under active exploitation. AI agents probed government websites in unexpected and concerning ways. ShinyHunters launches a new campaign against Oracle Pe…