Anti-ICE Site Leaks 18K Users, Utah Bans VPNs, Defender Nukes DigiCert, Canvas Breach

A platform built to expose ICE operations may have ended up exposing nearly 18,000 of its own users instead. This week, John and Logan break down the GTFO ICE data leak and the irony of an activist site getting taken down by Web App Security 101 mistakes, Utah's new law that tries to make websites responsible for VPN users (which is not how the internet works), the Microsoft Defender update that started deleting DigiCert root certificates as malware, and the Canvas breach that hit one of the biggest learning platforms in education. Stories in this episode: GTFO ICE data exposure. The activist platform reportedly tied to Miles Taylor allegedly leaked names, emails, phone numbers, and possibly location data for around 18,000 users through an unauthenticated API. No nation-state exploit. Just an open endpoint and no access control. Utah vs VPNs. SB 73 says it does not matter if you are using a VPN, if you are physically in Utah, you are a Utah user. The problem is websites cannot actually detect that, so the practical response will be VPN blocking and ID verification for everyone. Microsoft Defender attacks DigiCert. A bad signature update started flagging legitimate root certificates as a trojan and removing them from Windows on some systems. Your antivirus did not just alert. It attacked the chain of trust the entire internet runs on. Canvas breach. Instructure confirmed attackers accessed student IDs, emails, and internal messages between students and teachers. ShinyHunters is claiming 3.65 terabytes stolen. Line this up with Infinite Campus and PowerSchool, and the pattern is clear: edtech is a targeted campaign. Plus the bigger picture: organizational trust is collapsing at every layer, and the fix is not asking people to trust you more. It is designing systems that do not require blind trust in the first place. New episodes weekly. Follow Zero Downtime for cybersecurity, privacy, AI, edtech, and the tech stories that actually matter.