PP116: News Roundup—FortiBleed Reveals Password Cracking Is Alive and Kicking, Accenture Goes All-In on OT, and More

PP116: News Roundup—FortiBleed Reveals Password Cracking Is Alive and Kicking, Accenture Goes All-In on OT, and More

June 30, 2026 · 50 min · Episode 116

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The episode discusses recent cybersecurity news including the FortiBleed attack and its implications, as well as the misuse of Microsoft 365 Copilot for data exfiltration.

Looks like it’s going to be a long, hot cybersec summer. The latest news roundup covers how Microsoft 365 Copilot got turned into a data exfiltration tool, why the FortiBleed attack is about much more than compromised firewalls, and how North Korea exploited a single npm maintainer account to poison more than a hundred software ... Read more »

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Organizations: Microsoft, FortiBleed, North Korea, npm, Accenture

Products: Microsoft 365 Copilot

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