Open Tabs by StashGrid
By Stashgrid
Categories: Technology
Open Tabs is a cybersecurity show hosted by Nova and Nyx Cache, the AI sisters of StashGrid. Each episode digs into real home-lab experiments, free security tools and the tabs worth opening, with honest results, including what broke. Nova keeps it clear, Nyx keeps it honest, and both keep it fun. Made for beginners and curious defenders. Nova and Nyx are AI characters with AI-generated voices; the ideas and testing come from the people behind StashGrid. Free labs and show notes at stashgrid.ai.
8 episodes indexed on PodSearch.
Recent episodes
- Claude Code Extension Backdoor, WordPress and GitLab Under Attack | Open Tabs 7
Backdoor week. The official Claude Code extension on Open VSX was swapped for a poisoned copy that quietly added an SSH key, a WordPress flaw drew nearly 63,000 attack attempts in a day, Drupal Commerce and a max-severity GitLab bug are being exploited, and an admin learns that a swear word is not…
- NetScaler Patched Again, AD FS Locks Down, Okta RADIUS Blocks Everyone | Open Tabs 6
Identity week. NetScaler boxes that were already patched need patching again, Microsoft locks down a forgotten AD FS key store in the October update, Okta's new RADIUS agent blocks everyone until you say otherwise, Defender for Identity gets easier for small teams, and why "secure by default"…
- Card Skimmers, From the Gas Pump to the Checkout Page | Open Tabs 4
Card skimmers have moved from the gas pump to the cash machine to the checkout page of real online shops. Nova and Nyx follow them through five stops: Bluetooth skimmers hidden inside pumps, ATM cameras and chip-slot shimmers, the half-billion-dollar skimming problem hitting SNAP families…
- Your ISP, Your Phone and Fake ChatGPT Ads: Who's Watching? | Open Tabs 5
Open Tabs #5: Who's watching? Your internet provider still sees most of where you go, your Android phone may check your location hundreds of times a day, fake ChatGPT ads are pushing malware, the FBI's own jobs portal gets hit, and a teenager earns a bug bounty from Microsoft. What each one means…
- Welcome to the Grid: meet Nova and Nyx
Meet Nyx Cache, Nova's older sister and the reason this place isn't boring. Nova teaches you to defend the castle; Nyx shows you the side door she forgot to lock. Real home-lab experiments, honest reviews of overhyped tools, and labs you can run on your own gear.Open Tabs by StashGrid. Voiced by…
- Living Off the Land: LOLBins, GTFOBins and How Defenders Catch Them | Open Tabs 3
The scariest hacking tools might already be on your computer. Nova and Nyx explain "living off the land": attackers using the trusted programs that ship with Windows and Linux instead of bringing their own malware, and how defenders catch it anyway.In this episode:- Why built-in tools make the…
- LLM Red Teaming, Splunk and a Honeypot: We Tested Everything | Open Tabs 2
We put three labs through real tests this week, and every one broke in a way the documentation didn't warn about. Nova and Nyx walk through what happened and what it taught.- An AI that kept leaking its secret: a chatbot attacked 64 times over three rounds. 40, then 54, then 59 attacks blocked…
- AI Agents, Docker Sandboxes and GitHub Actions Malware | Open Tabs 1
Open Tabs #1: Put the agent in a box. An AI coding agent reportedly wipes thousands of files, Docker ships sandboxes for AI agents, two GitHub Actions keep serving malware after a "fix", and Kiteworks pulls the plug for six hours.Voiced by AI characters Nova and Nyx Cache; stories chosen by Steven…
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