South Korea Offers Free AI Services – 2026-08-31

This episode of BHIS - Talkin' Bout [infosec] News covers South Korea’s free government AI services, new efforts to secure the U.S. power grid from foreign-made components, and the use of SS7 and fitness-tracking data in military operations. The panel also discusses the FBI’s disruption of Chinese botnets targeting critical infrastructure, the alleged McKesson patient-data breach, arrests connected to Team PCP, and reports of NVIDIA acquiring Hugging Face. Additional topics include competition among AI coding platforms, critical vulnerabilities affecting Ubiquiti, Gitea, NetScaler, WebLogic, and PaperCut, and calls for an AI-powered surge in cyber defense. 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 news team. https://www.youtube.com/@BlackHillsInformationSecurity Chat with us on Discord! - https://discord.gg/bhis 🔴live-chat Chapters (00:00) - PreShow Banter™ — What is the whole point of RAM? (07:47) - South Korea Offers Free AI Services – 2026-08-31 (08:44) - South Korea Offers Free Government AI Services (18:38) - White House Targets Foreign Components in the U.S. Power Grid (24:11) - How Tehran’s Use of Cyber Operations in the U.S.-Iran Conflict Has Evolved (25:15) - Iranian Cyberattackers Tracked Phones of U.S. Military Personnel, Data Suggests (27:44) - The Strava Heat Map and the End of Secrets (29:37) - Officer reportedly leaks location of French aircraft carrier with Strava run (30:09) - FBI Disrupts Chinese Botnets Targeting Critical Infrastructure (32:31) - ShinyHunters Claims Theft of 284 Million McKesson Records (37:23) - Alleged Team PCP Hackers Arrested in Australia (39:08) - Rumored NVIDIA Acquisition of Hugging Face (49:48) - OpenAI, Cursor, and Competition Between AI Coding Platforms (53:11) - Critical Vulnerabilities in Ubiquiti, Gitea, NetScaler, and More (55:51) - PaperCut warns of NG, MF flaw exploited in zero-day attacks (56:20) - Technology Companies Call for an AI Defensive Surge (57:42) - 58 arrested in international cybercrime crackdown (58:48) - How to start the AI-accelerated defense (01:02:21) - TRAINING: Fundamentals of Cybersecurity: Threats and Defenses (01:07:07) - TRAINING: Hacking and Defending Satellite Infrastructure Links South Korea Offers Free Government AI Services White House Targets Foreign Components in the U.S. Power Grid How Tehran’s Use of Cyber Operations in the U.S.-Iran Conflict Has Evolved Iranian Cyberattackers Tracked Phones of U.S. Military Personnel, Data Suggests The Strava Heat Map and the End of Secrets Officer reportedly leaks location of French aircraft carrier with Strava run FBI Disrupts Chinese Botnets Targeting Critical Infrastructure ShinyHunters Claims Theft of 284 Million McKesson Records Alleged Team PCP Hackers Arrested in Australia Rumored NVIDIA Acquisition of Hugging Face OpenAI, Cursor, and Competition Between AI Coding Platforms Critical Vulnerabilities in Ubiquiti, Gitea, NetScaler, and More PaperCut warns of NG, MF flaw exploited in zero-day attacks Technology Companies Call for an AI Defensive Surge 58 arrested in international cybercrime crackdown How to start the AI-accelerated defense TRAINING: Fundamentals of Cybersecurity: Threats and Defenses TRAINING: Hacking and Defending Satellite InfrastructureCreators & Guests Corey Ham - Host John Strand - Host Bronwen Aker - Host Ryan Poirier - Producer Ralph May - Host Michael "Shecky" Kavka - Guest Doc Blackburn - Guest Hayden Covington - Host Wade Wells - Host Click here to watch this episode on YouTube. Click here to view the episode transcript. 🔗 Register for FREE Infosec Webcasts, Anti-casts & Summits  https://poweredbybhis.com Brought to you by: Black Hills Information Security  https://www.blackhillsinfosec.com ☯️ Introducing BHIS Fusion Penetration Testing https://www.blackhillsinfosec.com/fusion-penetration-testing/ Antisyphon Training https://www.antisyphontraining.com/ Active Countermeasures https://www.activecountermeasures.com