SonicWall, Informants Exposed, Cisco Vishing, Perplexity, GPT‑5, Josh Marpet–SWN #501 – SWN #501
Hello and welcome to security weekly news, episode 501, on Aug 8, 2025.
This week we have, SonicWall, Confidential Informants Exposed, Cisco Vishing, Perplexity vs robots.txt, Microsoft’s Project Ire, Meta–Flo Jury Verdict, GPT‑5 Lands, TeaOnHer Data Leak, Josh Marpet, and more on the Security Weekly News..
Aaran Leyland
- SonicWall Confirms Patched Vulnerability Behind Recent VPN Attacks, Not a Zero-Day
- Exclusive: Confidential informants exposed in Louisiana sheriff’s office hack
- Hacker used a voice phishing attack to steal Cisco customers’ personal information
- AI site Perplexity uses “stealth tactics” to flout no-crawl edicts, Cloudflare says
- Microsoft’s AI Prototype Can Reverse Engineer Malware, No Human Needed
- Jury ‘sends a message’ on app privacy in ruling against Meta
- ChatGPT-5 Released: What’s New With the Next-Generation AI Agent
- TeaOnHer, a rival Tea app for men, is leaking users’ personal data and driver’s licenses







