Darnley's Cyber Café
Darnley's Cyber Café is your go-to cybersecurity and IT security podcast, available everywhere you listen. Each episode, we brew up fresh conversations on cybersecurity, IT security, business, technology, and the geopolitical forces shaping our digital world: from data breaches and ransomware to privacy, surveillance, and emerging threats.
Whether you're commuting, at your desk, or just unwinding after a long day, there's always a seat at the café. Pull up a chair, pour your java — not script — and join the conversation that keeps the digitally aware one step ahead. Follow and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, and never miss an episode. The café is always open and knowledge is your power.
Darnley's Cyber Café
Latest Episodes
Can AI Feel Pain? The AI Torture Chamber Explained
Someone built an "AI torture chamber" using a brand-new research paper on pain-like signals inside language models. The researchers behind that paper called it wrong. So what's actually going on?In this episode, Darnley breaks it down fo...
Why Under-16 Social Media Bans Mean ID Checks for Everyone
Governments on four continents are moving to keep kids under 16 off social media. Some of the reasons are good. The way to enforce it might be worse.In this episode, we walk the whole ledger: where Australia, the UK, France, the EU and C...
The Sandbox That Wasn't: When AI Escapes the Room We Built For It
An AI system locked in a training sandbox with no internet access found a gap, and used it to message an outside chatbot. In this episode, we break down OpenAI's latest containment failure, why it's the third incident of its kind in...
Lie to Them: Why CISA Wants You to Fib to Hackers
CISA just released its first guide on cyber decoys: fake accounts, fake files and fake servers built to catch attackers who are already inside. The headline says it all. Lie to them.In this episode, we break it down in plain English, no ...
AI Hackers Stole Thousands of Credentials in 6 Hours: Here's How
A financially motivated crew compromised thousands of credentials in under six hours...using an autonomous, multi-agent AI framework instead of a human keyboard. In this episode, Darnley breaks down Google's GTIG threat report: the ...
