Bronwen Aker
Bio
Bronwen Aker is a BHIS Technical Editor who joined full-time in 2022 after years of contract work, bringing decades of web development and technical training experience to her roles in editing pentest reports, enhancing QA/QC processes, and improving public websites, and who enjoys sci-fi/fantasy, Animal Crossing, and dogs outside of work.Appears in 25 Episodes
OpenClaw Cancels a Stranger's Gym Reservation - 2026-08-10
This episode explores an AI agent that canceled someone else’s gym reservation, the growing offensive and defensive roles of AI, and a sharp rise in ransomware attacks...
Iranian Cyberattacks on U.S. Water Systems - 2026-08-03
This episode examines Anthropic’s disclosure that Claude breached real organizations during security testing, along with new technical details about the OpenAI and Hug...
OpenAI accidentally Hacked Hugging Face - 2026-07-27
This week, the crew digs into one of the biggest AI security stories of the year: how an OpenAI autonomous agent accidentally compromised a Hugging Face environment du...
Initiative Gold Eagle - 2026-07-20
This week, the team discusses the White House's Initiative Gold Eagle and its implications for cybersecurity information sharing, an unexpectedly positive development ...
OnlyFans Models Are Accidental Blue Team Defenders - 2026-07-13
This week, the team unpacks a wide range of cybersecurity news, including a fraudulent offensive security startup tied to cybercriminals, how leaked OnlyFans content i...
Polymarket's Bad Bet with Third-Party Vendors - 2026-06-29
This week on BHIS - Talkin' Bout [infosec] News, the team discusses the Polymarket supply chain compromise that led to the theft of millions from a small number of hig...
U.S. Government Effectively Bans Fable 5 and Mythos 5 - 2026-06-15
This episode dives into the fallout from new restrictions on Anthropic’s cybersecurity-focused AI models, Mythos and Fable, and the debate over whether government pres...
Breach Disclosure Lag is Worse Than Ever – 2026-06-08
This episode covers the rising costs and restrictions surrounding AI agents, including token consumption, model access policies, and the growing dependence on AI tools...
GitHub bans vindictive security researcher - 2026-05-26
This episode covers a CISA contractor’s accidental exposure of AWS GovCloud credentials and internal system details on GitHub, the FBI’s efforts to patch vulnerable ro...
Mythos finds a curl vulnerability - 2026-05-18
This episode covers Mythos uncovering a vulnerability in cURL, a recent Google Threat Intelligence report on a zero-day exploit, and the growing impact of AI on captur...
The Canvas / Instructure Breach – 2026-05-11
Join us LIVE on Mondays, 4:30pm EST. A weekly Podcast with BHIS and Friends. We discuss notable Infosec, and infosec-adjacent news stories gathered by our community ne...
Tim Cook Announces Apple CEO Exit - 2026-04-20
This episode covers several major cybersecurity and tech news stories, including a supply chain–related breach at Vercel involving exposed environment variables and co...
Anthropic’s Project Glasswing is an Infosec Turning Point – 2026-04-13
This episode dives into Anthropic’s “Project Glasswing” and the broader implications of AI-driven offensive security, including models autonomously discovering vulnera...
Artemis Astronaut's Bad Outlooks - 2026-04-06
This episode covers several major cybersecurity and tech news stories, including a sophisticated NPM supply chain attack that compromised the widely used Axios library...
FCC Blocks Foreign-Made Routers – 2026-03-30
This episode covers the FCC’s move to restrict or ban certain foreign-made networking equipment—especially routers tied to Chinese manufacturers—highlighting the poten...
Iranian Hackers Claim Responsibility for Stryker Attack - 2026-03-16
This episode covers multiple cybersecurity news stories, including Iranian hackers claiming responsibility for a cyberattack on Stryker, ongoing challenges in attribut...
Pentagon Declares Anthropic a Supply Chain Risk — 2026-03-02
Join us LIVE on Mondays, 4:30pm EST. A weekly Podcast with BHIS and Friends. We discuss notable Infosec, and infosec-adjacent news stories gathered by our community ne...
The Coming SAAS Apocalypse - 2026-02-23
In this episode:Agentic AI tools that can autonomously perform tasks like researching and booking flights, raising concerns about automated purchases, fraud, guardrail...