Utah Bans VPN Age Bypass - 2026-05-04

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This episode covers several major cybersecurity and technology news stories, including Utah’s proposed crackdown on VPNs used to bypass online age-verification systems and the privacy and enforcement concerns surrounding those laws. The hosts also discuss newly disclosed MOVEit Transfer vulnerabilities and patching guidance, software trust and code-signing weaknesses, and broader issues around internet regulation and digital identity verification. Additional discussion touches on AI, science-fiction-inspired technology concepts, relativity and time dilation, and other notable developments from the week in cybersecurity and tech news.

Chapters

• (00:00) - PreShow Banter™ — Alien Communications 101
• (03:38) - Utah Bans VPN Age Bypass - 2026-05-04
• (09:13) - Story #1 - DigiCert Revokes Certificates After Support Portal Hack
• (15:25) - Story #2 - Progress warns of critical MOVEit Automation auth bypass flaw
• (16:44) - Story #3 - Critical cPanel and WHM bug exploited as a zero-day, PoC now available
• (23:33) - Story #4 - Copy Fail
• (26:17) - Story #5 - Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue
• (33:42) - Story #6 - Elon Musk testifies that xAI trained Grok on OpenAI models
• (38:51) - Story #7 - Utah first state to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs — law goes into effect, designed to prevent bypassing age checks
• (51:23) - Story #8 - Why you should refuse to let your doctor record you
• (56:19) - Story #9 - Technique Change Type: How the ATT&CK Object Changed

Creators & Guests

• Corey Ham - Host
• Wade Wells - Host
• Ralph May - Host
• Tim Medin - Guest
• Patrick Gorman - Guest

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