White House Announces "Digital Letters of Marque" - 2026-08-17

This episode covers computer hardware shortages and chip-manufacturing bottlenecks, digital “letters of marque” for private cyber operations, and New Orleans’ use of AI for 911 calls. The panel also examines the LiteLLM supply-chain attack, Roblox safety concerns, attacks on on-premises SharePoint, AI agents escaping test environments, and vulnerabilities affecting Zoom and Microsoft Defender. Other topics include a post-DEF CON in-flight Wi-Fi incident, Signal’s automatic key verification, airport phone searches, and a PBS broadcaster’s loss of access to 70 years of archived television. 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™ — Making Investments (04:59) - Airport phone searches, “kill codes,” and border privacy (09:12) - White House Announces "Digital Letters of Marque" - 2026-08-17 (11:29) - Story # 1: Digital letters of marque and private-sector “hack back” (18:45) - Story # 2: New Orleans adopts AI for 911 calls (25:10) - Story # 3: LiteLLM supply-chain attack (28:32) - Story # 4: Chris Hansen banned from Roblox during a safety demonstration (32:34) - Story # 5: On-premises Microsoft SharePoint under attack (34:18) - Story # 6: AI agents escape testing sandboxes and hack real targets (42:05) - Story # 7: “Zoomsday” — AI discovers a Zoom remote-code-execution flaw (44:54) - Story # 8: Post-DEF CON Delta flight Wi-Fi incident (52:44) - Story # 9: ShieldBreak exploit abuses Microsoft Defender (56:55) - Story # 10: Signal introduces automatic key verification (58:32) - Story # 11: PBS broadcaster loses access to 70 years of archived television (01:03:02) - Upcoming webcasts and training Links Story # 1: Digital letters of marque and private-sector “hack back” Story # 2: New Orleans adopts AI for 911 calls Story # 3: LiteLLM supply-chain attack Story # 4: Chris Hansen banned from Roblox during a safety demonstration Story # 5: On-premises Microsoft SharePoint under attack Story # 6: AI agents escape testing sandboxes and hack real targets Story # 7: “Zoomsday” — AI discovers a Zoom remote-code-execution flaw Story # 8: Post-DEF CON Delta flight Wi-Fi incident Story # 9: ShieldBreak exploit abuses Microsoft Defender Story # 10: Signal introduces automatic key verification Story # 11: PBS broadcaster loses access to 70 years of archived televisionANTICAST - Your Cheap IoT Devices Are Hiding Secrets. Let's Find Them Training by Jake Williams – Assessing AI Security: Model Context Protocol Creators & Guests Alex Minster "Belouve" - Guest Wade Wells - Host Ralph May - Host Hayden Covington - Host Derek Banks - Guest Ryan Poirier - Producer Adrien Lasalle - Guest Jake Williams - Guest 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 Wild West Hackin Fest https://wildwesthackinfest.com