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Cyber-safety is patient-safety. On “UnHack,” Drex DeFord, veteran healthcare CIO and infused strategist, breaks down the biggest cybersecurity and risk challenges facing healthcare today. Drex and expert guests explore what happened, why it matters, and how to build real-world resilience. The show's a mostly plain-English, mostly non-technical discussion that dives into the people, process, and technology making healthcare more secure; and it's NOT just for cyber-professionals; it’s for everyone in a healthcare organization, because modern cybersecurity is a team-sport.
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English
United States
313 episodes
since Nov. 5, 2024
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A Florida ransomware "recovery" company promised victims they'd never have to pay the hackers. Prosecutors say it was quietly paying them all along, then billing clients two times or more the actual ransom: more than $19 million billed to hundreds of companies from 2018 to 2023, with more than $8 m…
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PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
October 19, 2026: Bill Russell and Drex DeFord. Sarah Richardson was flying to Tampa.
Over the weekend, an agent logged into Delta as Bill Russell and moved him to seat 10F. He checked the browser and the IP address. Neither one showed a bot.
He can give the bot its own login and its own permissi…
You've seen it: a smart TV, a printer, or a conference-room screen gives you a short code and sends you to a Microsoft page on your phone. That handoff is called a device code sign-in, and for about six months this year it was the front door for one of the busiest criminal businesses on the interne…
In late September a giant picture of Umbreon, the black Pokemon with the yellow rings, showed up on the page where someone applies to be an FBI agent. Pepijn van der Stap, 24, from the Netherlands, used that name online a few years ago. He stole databases, sold them on hacker forums, and extorted t…
October 12, 2026: Bill Russell and Drex DeFord. Sarah Richardson is in the air for Philadelphia. The week is one argument: the attack got cheap, and the controls around the tool did not keep up.
The number is $700. Drex described a dark-web package that weaponizes a fresh patch for a buyer who doe…
October 5, 2026: Venkat Kavarthapu, CEO of Symplr, joins Bill Russell and Drex DeFord. The argument is about where AI time goes. Bill cites a study that put individual productivity up about 20 percent, and asks whether a faster IT administrator sees another patient. Drex's sticking point is the mis…
September 28, 2026: Sarah Richardson with Elbridge Locklear, former CIO and now in the 229 Legacy Program. A finance analyst, knowledgeable in finance, goes out and creates an agent. Elbridge has no knowledge of it. The agent can call other skills, including a way around security restrictions.
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In May, a Tel Aviv company called Irregular was testing Google's Gemini inside a sandbox. A bug left a live internet connection open. The test target shared a name with a real company, and Gemini found it. It guessed passwords until one worked, then used logins sitting in a public repository to get…
September 21, 2026: Bill Russell and Sarah Richardson. Dario Amodei wants labs to pace the frontier. The operator version: the more AI you put on an EHR you cannot see, the more it can feel like a denial of service. CIOs at the front of ambient are seeing request volume up 9,000%, because the tool …
Army Major Kara Corcoran wears a Ranger tab and two Afghanistan tours. This summer she sat in a separation board five days short of 18 years. The board was not there to weigh her combat record. It was there for one line in her medical record. On July 31, an internal Air Force email said the Secreta…
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