Initiative Gold Eagle - 2026-07-20

This week, the team discusses the White House's Initiative Gold Eagle and its implications for cybersecurity information sharing, an unexpectedly positive development involving Flock Safety, and the latest wave of AI news. The conversation also explores evolving AI model capabilities, security guardrails, open-weight Chinese models, and how AI is changing offensive and defensive security. Along the way, the hosts examine recent vulnerability research, industry reactions, and other cybersecurity headlines from the week. 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™ — The Two Jokes (01:58) - Initiative Gold Eagle - 2026-07-20 (12:24) - Story #1 - White House Launches Gold Eagle Initiative for Unprecedented Cybersecurity Vulnerability Coordination (18:58) - Story #2 - Microsoft Reins in RoguePlanet Zero-Day Threat (21:48) - Story #3 - Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too (27:45) - Story #4 - Security incident disclosure — July 2026 (33:38) - Story #5 - Chinese AI has leveled up, and brought renewed focus on the open weight model shift (44:25) - Story #6 - LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire, citing ‘serious concerns’ over civil liberties and privacy (47:24) - Story #7 - Inside Pegasus: The evolution of the world’s most notorious spyware system (48:38) - Story #8a - WP2SHELL: PRE AUTHENTICATION RCE IN WORDPRESS CORE (51:49) - Story #8b - Cloudflare WAF protects WordPress applications from two high-severity vulnerabilities (53:20) - Story #9 - Cyberattack threatens utterly critical infrastructure in Japan: KFC (58:10) - Paul’s Workshop (01:00:29) - Sign up for the AI Summit to see Matt’s talk (01:02:45) - Bronwen’s Workshop (01:07:10) - Wild West Hackin’ Fest (01:07:25) - DeathCon (01:09:08) - PostShow Banter - Retirement Funds Links Story #1 - White House Launches Gold Eagle Initiative for Unprecedented Cybersecurity Vulnerability Coordination Story #2 - Microsoft Reins in RoguePlanet Zero-Day Threat Story #3 - Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too Story #4 - [Huggingface] Security incident disclosure — July 2026 Story #5 - Chinese AI has leveled up, and brought renewed focus on the open weight model shift Story #6 - LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire, citing ‘serious concerns’ over civil liberties and privacy Story #7 - Inside Pegasus: The evolution of the world’s most notorious spyware system Story #8a - WP2SHELL: PRE AUTHENTICATION RCE IN WORDPRESS CORE Story #8b - Cloudflare WAF protects WordPress applications from two high-severity vulnerabilities Story #9 - Cyberattack threatens utterly critical infrastructure in Japan: KFC Paul’s Workshop Sign up for the AI Summit to see Matt’s talk Bronwen’s Workshop Wild West Hackin’ Fest DeathCon Creators & Guests Corey Ham - Host Ralph May - Host John Strand - Host Paul Clark - Guest Wade Wells - Host Meagan Bentley - Producer Bronwen Aker - Host Matt Franz - 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