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Pineapple Pager: Wi-Fi Hacking, Spying Smart TVs and a $118K Ad Bill

2026-10-0530:09

What does a device shaped like a 90s pager have to do with the Wi-Fi network your laptop joined at Starbucks last month? In this episode of The Audit, Joshua Schmidt, Eric Brown, and Nick Mellem are joined by IT Audit Labs' own Cameron Birkland to get hands-on with the Hak5 Wi-Fi Pineapple Pager, the newest tool in the Pineapple lineup. Before the gear comes out, the crew unpacks a nine-year-old who ran up $118,000 in YouTube ads on his dad's saved work credit card, how Chrome sync quietly bl...

Cybersecurity News: PaperCut Breach, AGI Hype and Patch Tuesday

2026-09-2137:19

Nation states are paying top dollar for zero day vulnerabilities, hackers went from an empty lab to domain admin in under four hours, and Nvidia's CEO says we just crossed into AGI. On this episode of The Audit, Joshua Schmidt, Eric Brown, and Nick Mellem break down the cybersecurity stories shaping the week and dig into a debate that has no clean answer. The crew opens with news that Eric Brown has a book on the way, built around lessons learned managing technology for clients over the...

Building the Future: AI Coding, Agentic Advisors and Custom Tools

2026-09-0801:15:46

What if your company didn't need a single line of code to build its own CRM, or a board of directors made up entirely of AI agents? In this episode of The Audit, Joshua Schmidt, Eric Brown, and Nick Mellem sit down with Loren Horsager, founder of Model Mind AI, who has been working in AI since 1993 and now spends his days coaching businesses and CEOs on how to actually put it to work. Loren has helped organizations trade their bloated software stacks, their expensive middleware, and their old...

Cyber Warfare on Tap: Water Utility Hacks, Nation-State APTs and Secure Browsers

2026-08-2447:46

What happens when nation-state hackers target the water coming out of your tap? In this episode of The Audit, Joshua Schmidt, Eric Brown, and Nick Mellem break down the recent wave of attacks on water utilities across Minnesota and 27 other states, where threat actors got their hands on administrative passwords to programmable logic controllers. The crew is joined for the first time by Kelly Venzke, Director of Business Operations at IT Audit Labs, who brings a business leadership perspective...

Decode Your Team: The Kolbe Index, Conative Strengths and Hiring Smarter

2026-08-1044:19

What if the way you solve problems has nothing to do with how smart you are or how you feel, and everything to do with instinct? In this episode of The Audit, Joshua Schmidt, Eric Brown, and Nick Mellem are joined by Jen Lotze from SipCyber and guest David Kolbe of Kolbe Corp, whose company built the Kolbe Index to measure the instinctive way people take action. After the whole team takes the assessment live, David breaks down what their scores actually mean and why the crew's mix of Fact Fin...

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The Audit - Cybersecurity Podcast