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CyberWire Daily

Editorial pick

Hosted by Dave Bittner

Daily 25-minute briefing on the cybersecurity news that actually moved markets, regulators, or attackers.

Narrative Daily Under 30 min· ~2600 episodes· Started 2015
Level
Practitioner, assumes you work in or study security
Status
Active, last episode
Who's behind it
Media outlet, N2K Networks sourceAd-supported; interview segments are often with sponsors.
Last verified
Transcripts for every episode

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Editorial take

If you only have time for one cybersecurity podcast and you want to stay current rather than entertained, this is it. Dave Bittner reads the news the way a wire-service editor would, separating noise (yet another phishing kit) from signal (a CVE that will be in every Patch Tuesday next month). The interview segments at the end occasionally pad the runtime, skip them when busy. Daily cadence keeps you honest about where time goes.

Last hand-checked 2026-09-30, Daily cadence Monday-Friday plus weekly long-form 'Caveat' and 'Hacking Humans' from the same network.

Listen if you …

  • work in or sell to cybersecurity and need the daily news pulse
  • prefer a tight 20-minute brief to long-form storytelling
  • want a vendor-neutral source for situational awareness

Skip if you …

  • you want analysis or technical depth, this is news-of-record, not research
  • you already follow a security-focused newsletter that covers the same beats

Start with these 3 episodes

  1. 01

    Clear your calendar, it’s Patch Tuesday.

    · 31 min · Practitioner

    A typical weekday episode: the news run, a Patch Tuesday rundown, and an interview, so you know the format.

  2. 02

    CyberWire Daily at 10: The evolution of ransomware. [Special Edition]

    · 23 min · Beginner

    A ten-year retrospective that gives ransomware's turning points the context a daily brief cannot.

  3. 03

    CyberWire Daily at 10: The breaches we still talk about. [Special Edition]

    · 28 min · Beginner

    The decade's landmark breaches in one place, an evergreen companion to the daily news habit.

About the show

The CyberWire produces the cybersecurity industry's de facto daily news brief. Dave Bittner anchors with a tight, neutral-voice summary of overnight breaches, government actions, vendor news, and CVE disclosures.

The shape rarely changes day-to-day, which is exactly the point, you build the habit and the format never gets in the way.

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