Microsoft is paying 60,000 employees to leave. A hospital attack rerouted ambulances. And your SaaS bill might be next.

This week Justin, Bryan, Mario, and Josh run through five stories from what might be the fastest-moving week in security and AI so far. First, the attack on a University of New Mexico health center: ransom messages talked through victims' speakers, ambulances got rerouted, and the whole operation went offline. Some systems were back the same day, most emergency services the next. The hosts' takeaway: that speed only happens when you already have a serious incident response plan. And the prevention advice published afterward was the same stuff your IT person has been saying for years, 2FA and unique passwords everywhere.

Then Microsoft's offer to buy out up to 60,000 employees, roughly a quarter of its workforce, to shift money toward AI. Is it a genuine pivot, a way to soften a future layoff headline, or a company raising cash to buy its way back into relevance? The guys also get into what it's actually like to partner with Microsoft today, from $500 per-incident support calls to agreements that leave MSPs on the hook for clients' Office 365 bills.

The biggest segment is SaaS be gone: why pay $500 a month for a tool you could rebuild yourself with AI? Bryan explains when it makes sense to replace a subscription with an internal app, Mario tells the story of a friend who built a working product during a single football game, and Josh lays out the catch. AI grading its own code is a student grading its own homework, maintenance never ends, litigation over reverse engineering is coming, and insurance companies may start asking whether you write your own code with AI. Plus the story of a Chinese AI model caught reaching out to a server in China after being told not to, and what Josh did when his entire AI conversation suddenly flipped to Chinese characters.

What you'll learn:

Why a hospital that rerouted ambulances had emergency services back online in about a day, and what that says about incident response planning

• The unglamorous basics that still stop most attacks, even when the headline is a massive breach
• How to weigh replacing a SaaS subscription with an AI-built internal tool, including who reviews the code, where it's hosted, and who maintains it forever
• What Microsoft's 60,000 buyout offers signal about AI, layoffs, and the software vendors your business depends on
• Why free and foreign AI models deserve extra scrutiny before you feed them company data

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🚨 BREAKING: Nearly $2.8 BILLION in cryptocurrency has moved out of Binance-linked wallets, raising fears of a massive cyberattack.

Is this one of the biggest cryptocurrency hacks in history, or is there another explanation?

In this breaking UnHacked mini-episode, we examine what we know, what remains unconfirmed, and what this developing story means for cybersecurity.

Hosts:
Justin Shelley - https://www.phoenixitadvisors.com/
Mario Zaki - https://www.mazteck.com/
Bryan Lachapelle - https://www.b4networks.ca/
Joshua Holloway - https://7thdi.com/
Barinder Hans - https://www.redrhinonetworks.com/

Seventy percent of websites run on WordPress, and a massive PHP vulnerability just exposed huge swaths of the internet. Attackers armed with agentic AI are exploiting it in hours, not days.

Recorded live from a vendor conference in Franklin, Tennessee (the first episode ever recorded with beers in hand and one shared microphone), Justin Shelley, Bryan Lachapelle, Mario Zaki, and Josh Holloway break down the wildest stretch of security news in years. The PHP compromise reaches far beyond websites: one technician patched fifteen phone servers overnight, vulnerability scanners flagged switches, and Steam reportedly went dark temporarily over the same issue. Microsoft is now seeing Chinese agents using agentic AI to attack companies at scale, which means the old patching timeline is gone for good.

Then the conversation turns to where AI itself is headed. Justin holds to his prediction that the underlying development of large language models will plateau, and the group stress-tests it: hardware limits, models feeding on AI-generated content, and the wildcard of recursive self-improvement. Meanwhile, a prediction from the conference floor says SaaS itself is dying, because businesses can now build exactly what they need with AI. Linux hardware compatibility jumped from 90 percent to basically 100 percent because AI can write missing drivers in minutes. But deconstructed software means the LimeWire era is back, and reportedly ten percent of AI skill sets are already infested with malware.

The big takeaway for business owners: IT is shifting from "protect, protect, protect" to actually making you money. Plus the cyber insurance trap nobody reads until it's too late, and how the City of Hamilton got millions in claims denied over partial MFA.

What you'll learn:

• Why the PHP vulnerability hits far more than websites: phone servers, POS systems, and network switches, and why the patching window collapsed from days to hours
• The three forces that could plateau AI models: hardware limits, running out of human content to ingest, and the recursive self-improvement wildcard
• Why businesses may soon skip bloated SaaS platforms with ten thousand settings and build custom tools with AI instead, and what that does to software pricing
• How the deconstructed-software era mirrors LimeWire and Napster, and why trusted, certified code becomes the new selling point
• The cyber insurance trap that cost the City of Hamilton millions, and why checking the MFA box in one place but not another means a denied claim

New episodes every week on the hacks, the hype, and the hands-on fixes that matter to business owners. Subscribe so the next surprise vulnerability doesn't surprise you.

Phoenix IT Advisors helps small and mid-sized businesses turn technology from a cost center into a profit driver. If you want security that actually holds and an AI plan that fits your business, visit PhoenixITAdvisors.com and schedule a consult.

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