Plaintext with Rich
Cybersecurity is an everyone problem. So why does it always sound like it’s only for IT people?
Each week, Rich takes one topic, from phishing to ransomware to how your phone actually tracks you, and explains it in plain language in under ten minutes or less. No buzzwords. No condescension. Just the stuff you need to know to stay safer online, explained like you’re a smart person who never had anyone break it down properly. Because you are!
Plaintext with Rich
Latest Episodes
PTC Windchill Vulnerability: Why Your Product Blueprints Are at Risk
A company can lose its most valuable product plans without a broken lock, an encrypted laptop, or an obvious warning on the screen. The first clear sign may be an extortion email claiming the files are already gone.This episode of Plaint...
CVE-2026-50522: Why SharePoint Patching Is Only Step One
A critical SharePoint alert arrives, the update goes in, and the ticket closes. But what if an attacker entered before the lock was fixed and left with secrets that still work?In this episode of Plaintext with Rich, Rich explains why CVE...
AutoJack Attack: How Malicious Pages Hijack AI Browsing Agents
You told your AI assistant to book a flight and compare hotels. You come back, and it did all of that. It also ran commands on your machine that you never approved. What just happened?This episode unpacks AutoJack, a demonstra...
North Korea Mastra NPM Supply Chain Attack: How It Works
You installed a dependency before lunch. Tests passed, app booted, nothing looked wrong. By dinner, your machine had quietly run someone else's code.This episode covers the Mastra npm supply chain compromise Microsoft attribut...
Patch Tuesday 206 Vulnerabilities: AI Discovery vs Remediation Speed
Your update dashboard keeps climbing. Not ten fixes, not fifty. Two hundred and six security patches waiting for approval, and everyone is asking if work stops now. That was June 2026, the largest Patch Tuesday on record.This ...