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Sponsored: Teaching AI agents the rules of the road May 25, 2026

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In this sponsored interview James Wilson chats with Sondera CEO Josh Devon about why guardrails and instruction files aren’t enough to keep AI agents from going haywire. EDR, DLP and other traditional controls can’t and won’t prevent agents from going rogue.

Josh explains Sondera’s “principle of least autonomy” for agents: let them do useful work, but put them in a deterministic policy harness so they can’t leak secrets, abuse tools or wander off-task.

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Risky Bulletin: Microsoft ends SMS MFA for personal accounts May 22, 2026

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Microsoft ends support for SMS MFA on personal accounts, GitHub was hacked via a malicious VS Code extension, CISA will let researchers submit new KEV entries, and an SMS blaster was detained at Eurovision.

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Risky Bulletin: Microsoft ends SMS MFA for personal accounts

Srsly Risky Biz: Politicians ditch Signal for homegrown apps May 21, 2026

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Tom Uren and James Wilson talk about moves from several European governments to ditch Signal and set up their own encrypted messaging systems for internal government use. These efforts are motivated by concerns about phishing and sovereignty, but the solutions being adopted are imperfect and will come with their own set of problems. Signal fills a space that can’t be filled with sovereign capability.

They also talk about Fast16 malware. We are only now learning about the second arm of a mid-2000s campaign to delay Iran’s nuclear weapons program that included the infamous Stuxnet worm.

This episode is also available on YouTube

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Risky Bulletin: Microsoft takes down crime SaaS used by ransomware gangs May 20, 2026

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Microsoft disrupts a malware-signing service used by ransomware gangs, a CISA contractor leaks sensitive GovCloud keys, vulnerability exploitation is now the dominant network entry vector, and Drupal readies security updates for a “highly critical” vulnerability.

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Risky Bulletin: Microsoft takes down MSaaS used by ransomware gangs

Between Two Nerds: Russia's hacker university May 19, 2026

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In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq look at Department 4 of Bauman Moscow State Technical University where students learn how to hack for the state. Its curriculum is extremely explicit about how the hacking and propaganda operations are relevant to state operations. They discuss whether this is an advantage for Russia’s cyber program and look at what Western intelligence agencies do instead.

This episode is also available on YouTube.