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Welcome back to the Textual Talk Podcast.
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In this week's episode, we're navigating a surge of serious global cyber threats and digging into some critical shifts in the tech landscape.
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We're starting with a major attack.
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A pro-Iran activist group claims to have hit medical device giant striker, causing massive global system outages.
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That's right.
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And the global security picture is grim.
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We're discussing a state-backed Chinese hacking campaign, saw typhoon, and spent quietly compromising global telecom giants, and the chaos that GPS attacks near Iran are wreaking on ordinary life.
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Plus, the dangers of AI are becoming real.
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One lawyer is now warning of mass casualty risk from AI psychosis cases.
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We're also talking about the people and the culture of tech.
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From a shocking report about a DOE employee stealing Social Security data on a thumb drive to the vital discussion on why black recruiters are essential for creating an equitable workforce.
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And on a lighter note, we're diving into the promised MacBook Neo and why everyone needs to be playing around with all the new AI agentic tools coming out.
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We've got cybersecurity news, workplace debates, and a critical look at the future of tech, including Google's 3.2 billion acquisition of Wiz and how Facebook is finally making it easier for creators to fight impersonators.
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Don't go anywhere.
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Episode 203 starts now.
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Welcome, welcome back, everybody.
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It's your boy HD in the building, and we got Cyber Shorty.
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Hey y'all.
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How y'all been enjoying these intros?
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We're trying to spice it up.
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I think I like it.
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I low-key that that ate today.
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Yeah.
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That ate down today.
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I like it too because so audio and video is different, but for the audio listeners, they would really like it because they know exactly what we're talking about.
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Exactly.
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They're not on YouTube.
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People can like hit the description and kind of see what we're talking about.
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And they probably click somewhere to see what we're talking about.
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So I really like that.
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And um I think first things first, you know, let's start off with you.
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You guys cannot see on the screen.
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Let me go back to this so I can switch back to her.
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Um I can pull her up.
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Shorty has a MacBook Neo.
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I'm in love.
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You guys, this is my first MacBook.
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And okay, so I'm Team Apple, we know that.
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But I just did not want to get any type of Mac device computer based.
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And I'm in love.
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It just makes sense.
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It makes sense.
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If you already have all these Apple products, it makes the most sense.
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Yeah.
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Um obviously it is, you know, a cheaper laptop.
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I'm not expecting, you know, pro capabilities from it.
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Um, but you know, the the audio's good, it looks good.
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I haven't really done much on here besides um a couple of I haven't really done much.
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Music, research, you know, getting prepped for the pod.
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I haven't done anything that's, I guess, super resource intensive yet, but I'll keep you guys posted.
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But I love it.
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I love it.
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10 out of 10.
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Yeah, it's funny because I think it was like one or two episodes ago, I was telling you about how you should go ahead and get a MacBook.
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And you was like, I don't want to get a MacBook.
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And I was telling her, like, when it comes to now that stuff that you're doing, I know you've been playing with AI.
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I know now you've been doing your content creation, everything else, you really can't find a better value.
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Like, though I love Windows, like, like if you're a gamer for PC and then you're you're upgrading your PC and all the other stuff, Windows, you know, is the move for that.
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But when it comes to this, this thing is so simple.
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You know, I years ago, before I ever got a Mac, I was like, man, I'm not gonna pay no$2,000 for no Mac, no laptop.
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That's crazy, whoop-de-woop.
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And now all of a sudden, I go on my second MacBook Pro because they last forever and they do exactly what I needed to do.
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Like this thing has great battery life.
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As you can see, the fans not even cut on yet.
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Like, that's one of my pet peas of windows.
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Bye.
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No matter how spec'd out it is, the fan will start coming on.
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My aces, throw it away.
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Immediately.
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It gets so hot, it oh, it just I know.
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That was not a good purchase.
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We should talk about like not good tech purchases one day.
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Because that was not, that was that was.
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Well, you got it.
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You just went out and it's it's similar.
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It reminds me, this conversation reminds me of um like it whether it's like a dad or a big brother or something, like the sisters going to buy their first car.
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It's just I just did a lot of stupid stuff.
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Like, you know how about the the iPad?
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I mean, I still love her.
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I I get the most use out of my iPad for sure.
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But I didn't everything I told you I was gonna do with it.
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I ain't done none of that with it.
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I mean, I use my iPad like when I don't, if I don't look this around, like it's like a little simple, but it's multifaceted now for me.
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In the car, I could do something real quick.
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Or now on long trips, it's with josh washes.
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So I do low-key want a smaller iPad now.
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I know.
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But but I still want the big one, but I want like the little mini one.
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Now, guys, the next thing we're gonna have her do, like when I come in here next with the S26 Ultra, she's gonna be like, okay, I'm gonna go get one.
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I'm screaming.
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She's gonna go get one.
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She's gonna replace one of these iPhones she got on her desk.
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I like I do, I think my favorite part about this though is just how it already integrates with all of my Apple stuff.
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So, like, you know, content, my pictures, and all that stuff that I have on here, it just makes it easier versus you having to figure out how to get it on said device.
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Um, so that's probably my favorite thing.
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Is everything's already here.
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Perfect, perfect.
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Now, one of the things I had on the docket um to be a little serious today, or I could try to be serious, is um there's always been these contentious debates over the last couple weeks about who works in tech and who don't.
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And oh, you're a recruiter, you don't really work in tech, you just you work in recruitment.
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While all that stuff is fun and it's good for the algorithm to get clicks and go back and forth, on a serious tip, black recruiters, whatever they do, and whether it's a tech company or not, they are essentially needed, especially for us.
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Uh, since I want to say, probably since Trump probably came back in office, like working, being black, like in corporate, has been like very different when it's come to interviewing and getting callbacks and everything else.
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Like, you know, we are really weren't getting a lot of help when it came to DEI.
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Like those initiatives really was more so for everybody that didn't look like us, if you want to go look at the numbers.
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But now, like, I could I can tell you guys a personal story from a client of mine who showed me a screenshot of her, and I don't know if it was another recruiter at a recruitment company.
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I'm not gonna divorce names here, uh, just because I don't want to get her in any trouble based on whatever conversation she's having for job things.
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But she sent me a screenshot and it showed whoever she's talking to.
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Uh, she was pretty much saying whatever recruiter didn't call her.
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And the guy said, What?
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I can't believe that.
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I gave them two resumes.
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Your resume was much better than his, and let me guess, he called the white guy.
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And I said that because a lot of times when we come on here, we'll see in the comments, people say we complaining and this or that.
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I'm like, nobody's really complaining.
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We kind of already know we're up against, but just actually seeing it in the it'll kind of like really infuriate you.
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It's like, what's going on here?
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Like, and then if I take that a step further, then sometimes you get to a new company and you find out like who's managing you or whatever you're doing, like these people aren't better than me.
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I can do this.
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Like, all the stuff that's happening could have been nipped in the bud if somebody more competent was in charge.
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And yet, a lot of times that's when I was talking to a friend of show Bryson, and I was talking about how when I apply to jobs a lot of times, and for whatever role it is, I go look through the security org and just see if I see one or two phases that look like me.
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Most of the time I don't.
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So most of them times I chalk it up to you may get hit back up, but nine times out of ten, they're not calling you fam.
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Now, these are the biases.
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This is the one part of the diversity part when it comes to race and everything else.
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The other part I talk about when it comes to security and diversity is backgrounds far as what did you used to do for work or where you came from or what company that you used to work for, and how that background can help you exceed in uh org for security.
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But I don't want to go on like a long tangent with this because I think like after that she ended up having a call with a recruiter, and the recruiter basically tried to talk them out of the role saying they don't think you'd be a good fit.
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I'm like, why in the hell would you call somebody and say you don't think they're gonna be a good fit?
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Like, what was the whole purpose of that?
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Like, hang on.
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Let me let me let me do this real quick because guys, I got my sounds down.
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What do you mean by that?
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What do you what do you mean by that?
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Like, I don't understand like none of this stuff that's going on right now in the industry.
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Um, you have people who aren't qualified getting hired.
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You just had the what did Lee send me about the guy that uh I'm gonna find him off on really quick because he always sending me some stuff.
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Because remember the last two that was over uh CISA, I think that's how you pronounce it, right?
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C-I-SA.
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He was not qualified.
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And the next person, so see, the Senate on Tuesday approved, I guess, General Joshua Rudd to serve as head of both U.S.
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Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, finally filling a critical military position that has remained vacant since last April.
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The Senate approved Rudd by a vote of 7129, with some Democratic lawmakers objecting to his lack of cyber experience.
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Rudd was elevated to the rank of general as part of the vote.
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Now, how can you put somebody over a national security agency and a cyber command and they have no experience in either?
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So, like, sometimes what I be wanting to tell them people when they give feedback or when they want to talk about experience and stuff, it's like, bro, don't talk to me about experience and what I need to know how to do from no longer when y'all have people's lives at stake with people that don't know what they're doing.
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And this, based on today's episode, this is the worst time people who don't know what they need to be, don't know what they're doing, are in charge.
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Especially which I see what's going on with Iran and then whoever their allies are.
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Uh SISA don't have any money now because of the administration and everything else.
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It's a mess.
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So when you get mad or you come in the comments and you try to like troll the black people or say we whining or not, we're not.
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We're looking at the injustices that's happening, people that are qualified.
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And it's not even take black out of it.
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Just say people who are qualified are not even getting a shot at the role because you just want a person that's going to say yes to you because they don't know what they're doing, and you can control them because they don't know what they're doing.
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They're not going to have a backbone.
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And so when we look up in the next couple of years and everything is real bad, y'all can blame your administration for the trickle-down effect that it's had on the nation and in the subpockets of the industry and all these people that vote this way.
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And this also goes into one of the last things where and I'll put it on split screen too.
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When I was talking about all the black women that love to champion, my white manager, my white manager, my white manager.
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And I was like, that's cool.
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But what your white manager voted for when it came to election time.
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Exactly.
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So they only have seen it at work and say, no, you you really don't understand.
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It's always a back and forth.
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I get it.
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Two things can be true.
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Your black manager did treat you better than that black woman manager.
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That could possibly be all the way true.
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I know for a fact that's not every black woman manager.
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Sometimes some of them are jealous because hey, maybe the younger woman is getting more attention to them.
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Maybe they're more attractive than they are.
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Maybe, you know, yada yada.
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Those petty things do happen.
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But also what can happen is these people vote in the self-interest of themselves.
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And that's directly affecting you.
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And matter of fact, I think that it kind of goes into what you're talking about with the Europe stuff, but how I think it's harder for y'all now, too, getting jobs now.
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Just being just being black women.
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And we're and we're the most educated.
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That's a topic, that's a panel topic that me and Bryson want to bring up because we know black women are educated.
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I mean, it's but no, no, but it's it's a nuanced conversation because the most educated without a black man, I think, of course, because women gravitate to going to school more than men do.
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But I everybody know, and then we're gonna talk about what the actual majors are.
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So it's like a it's gonna be a really spirited conversation, not in a bad faith way, but some good things that we could talk about and how what can we do with this information and band together and um all this other stuff.
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But I just want everybody to know, like, if you're a black recruiter, uh, we appreciate you uh because you go like a lot of you guys do go to X amount when you can and review our stuff.
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And not only black recruiters, black black people in HR.
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Like a lot of these things mean a lot.
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Like, I got the 411 on a lot of stuff that was happening when the black uh chick in HR left my current company, she put me on a lot of game.
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That'll never happen if you know you ain't got the complexion for the protection.
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I think that black recruiters, I think that we we definitely have to give black recruiters um a round of applause.
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And also even from the perspective of we know that we are um I'm trying to get the words out.
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We know that we have a disadvantage, right?
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In some way, shape, or form.
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Um but I don't even think that people are even thinking about how does it feel to be a black recruiter, right?
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It's a lot that goes on that they know about that, like you just said, the the GP, the general population is just not aware of.
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And again, if you don't have friends that are recruiters, um, or you don't have a personal connection to a recruiter, you don't even know what's going on or the struggles that they're going through, um, we know that they're typically the first roles to go when it is time to go.
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You know what I mean?
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So I think we gotta give credit when credit is due.
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And shout out to our our recruiter friends.
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Facts.
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But um, I think that was very spirited, but I know that you were really ready to get into this iron striker stuff.
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I really, really, really, really, really, really, really am.
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Let me find her.
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So if you are not aware, your girl is from the city where Stryker is.
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Uh, do your math, do your do your research.
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Um, but I really was excited to talk about this.
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Um, so Stryker is headquartered in Portage, Michigan, which is basically where I'm from.
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Well, not Portage, but Kamazoo.
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Um, and so I know a lot of folks who work there.
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So when this hit Facebook, you know how it be, um, it was a lot of information.
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So on March 11th, 2026, a pro-Iranian hacktivist group called Hondala claimed responsibility for a massive cyber attack on striker, one of the large, one of the world's largest medical device companies.
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We're talking surgical equipment, orthopedic implants, neurotechnology, hospital beds.
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They have about 25 billion in revenue with about 56,000 employees, and their products reach about 150 million patients a year.
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Now, let me take a step back.
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What is a hacktivist group and how does this how is this different from ransomware?
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So Handala says it wiped more than 200,000 servers, devices, and systems across Stryker's Global Network.
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In 79 countries, employees showed up to work and saw the Handala logo on their look on their login screens.
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People's phones were wiped, the company shut down offices in multiple countries, including their largest hub outside the US in Cork, Ireland, where over 5,000 employees were sent home.
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Now, this was a wiper attack, not ransomware.
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And let's kind of talk a little bit more about what that distinction is.
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So, ransomware obviously is about money.
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Wipe attacks are about destruction.
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Handala wasn't asking for a payout.
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They stated that this was retaliation for a US military strike on a girls' school in southern Iran, um, the Manah school attack that killed over 170 people, most of them being children.
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Cyber researchers who track Hamdala believe the group is actually a front for a threat actor called Void Manticor, which is linked allegedly to Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security.
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So while they present as activists, they may be state-level resources that's backing them.
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Now, what is really wow, according to security analysts, the attackers may have gained access to striker's Intune console, which is the mobile device management platform that companies use to push out patches and manage all of their devices.
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So when you control that console, you control basically the kill switch.
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So they didn't need custom malware.
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They used Striker's own tools against them.
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Now, if you think about what that means, the tools that the company is using to protect their devices became the tool that was used to destroy them.
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And that is a supply chain of trust violation.
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Now, if we think of um kind of what's going on here, as of this recording, Stryker has not confirmed a restoration timeline.
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No ransomware, no malware payload detected, but 200,000 devices wiped.
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Hospitals and surgical centers that depend on Stryker are already feeling the downstream effects.
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I kind of think that this pattern here with healthcare and then obviously critical infrastructure is it's kind of scary because there's a lot of like geopolitical conflict that is going on right now, which is this is obviously impacting, and this is like high visibility.
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Um, so again, Stryker headquartered in Portage, they acquired Israeli medical tech firm Orthospace in 2019, a connection that researchers say may have contributed to Honala's targeting them specifically.
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The attack began in the early hours of March 11th, starting with their Cork Ireland facility.
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Hondala emerged after the Hamas attack of October 7th, 2023, and has since targeted Israel Israeli?
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My God, infrastructure, Gulf Energy companies, and Western organizations with ideological ties to the Israel, to Israel and its alleys.
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Um, so when you think about like Checkpoint and other companies, they are, you know, kind of um tracking.
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Yeah.
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Um, but yeah, this is a masterclass in why healthcare cybersecurity is one of the most critical and underfunded sectors in the industry.
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So if you are trying to specialize in healthcare IT, um, this would be a great opportunity for you to start looking into some HIPAA high trust frameworks, um, some medical device security standards, and then combining that with a little bit of um operational technology.
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I just can't, I can't even believe, I can't believe that happened.