UnHack with Drex DeFord
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S3E18 Same Show, New Home — UnHack Moves to 229 May 15th
May 15, 2026: Big news from Drex DeFord, starting May 15th, UnHack the Podcast and the Two-Minute Drill are moving to the 229 Project Podcast Channel. Same show, same mission, same Drex — just one…
S3E17 How North Korea's Fake Company Compromised Millions | 2 Minute Drill with Drex DeFord
North Korean threat actors didn't breach a firewall. They built a fake company. UNC1069 spent two weeks constructing a convincing Slack workspace, fake team members, and LinkedIn profiles to earn the…
S9E9 Newsday: Epic's Code Red - Why AI Agents Are Healthcare's Next Power Struggle with Jacob Hansen
February 23, 2026: Jacob Hansen, Chief Product and Technology Officer at AvaSure, joins Bill, Sarah, and Drex for a critical conversation about healthcare's looming AI battleground. As Epic launches…
S9E8 Newsday: All About Moltbook, the Social Media for AI Agents with This Week Health
February 16, 2026: Bill, Drex, and Sarah discuss the explosion of autonomous AI agents around moltbook and CommonSpirit's stunning $1.9 billion decision to terminate their revenue cycle partnership.…
S3E35 The Cyber Attack No One Can Survive Alone | Executive Interview with Josh Howell
May 5, 2026: What happens when attackers don't just break into your systems, they become you? Josh Howell, Healthcare CTO at Rubrik, joins Drex DeFord to unpack Rubrik's newly announced partnership…
S9E35 Nurses Week Special on Florence Nightingale and the Future of Nursing | Newsday with Lisbeth Votruba
May 4, 2026: Lisbeth Votruba, Chief Clinical Officer at AvaSure, joins Bill Russell and Drex DeFord on Newsday to celebrate Nurses Week with a fascinating look at where nursing has been, and where…
S3E10 2 Minute Drill: Building an Agentic AI Hacker with Drex DeFord
Drex unpacks a signal hiding across several recent stories: we may be deploying AI well ahead of our ability to secure it. From an autonomous AI agent that breached a consulting firm's internal…
S3E16 What Healthcare Can Learn From a 20 Year Old Hacker | 2 Minute Drill with Drex DeFord
Matthew Lane was 14 when he started probing the edges of online gaming systems. By 20, he had walked out of PowerSchool with data on nearly 70 million students and teachers using nothing but a…
S3E15 UnHack the Podcast: Children's Hospital Code Dark Plan with Laurie Campbell and Rick McIntosh
April 28, 2026: When a hospital goes dark, the first 72 hours are everything. Laurie Campbell, Senior Manager of Clinical Ancillary Applications and Enterprise Imaging, and Rick McIntosh, VP and the…
S9E32 Healthcare IT Is Drowning in Projects, Here’s Why | Newsday
April 27, 2026: Drex DeFord and Bill Russell are back on Newsday, and fresh off the 229 Summit, they're not pulling punches. Healthcare IT has a demand problem. Too many projects, not enough…
S15E3 The Most Likely Way Into Your Network Is Still the Door You Forgot to Lock | 2 Minute Drill
While the industry debates frontier AI models and nation-state threats, hospitals are still getting hit by ransomware through the same doors they've always left open. Drex zooms out to what's…
S29E9 Newsday: What Healthcare Gets Backwards - Building Better Care with Angel Mena
April 20, 2026: What happens when you layer AI onto broken processes without fixing them first? Angel Mena, MD, CMO of Symplr, joins Bill Russell, Drex DeFord, and Sarah Richardson on Newsday to…
S3E14 2 Minute Drill: How a 22-Year-Old Took Down the World's Largest Botnet with Drex DeFord
The Kim Wolf botnet was the most powerful ever built — 2 million compromised IoT devices, a record-breaking 31.4 terabit DDoS attack, and it had the FBI, Google, and Cloudflare stumped. Drex breaks…
S9E16 Newsday: AI, EHRs, and the Fight Health Systems Can't Ignore with Jacob Hansen
April 13, 2026: Jacob Hansen, Chief Product and Technology Officer at AvaSure, joins Bill, Drex, and Sarah on Newsday for a conversation about the data governance battles quietly reshaping AI. From…
S3E13 2 Minute Drill: AI has now Hacked the Un-hackable with Drex DeFord
The window between vulnerability discovery and exploitation has collapsed — from 63 days in 2018 to negative. Now AI is changing the game entirely. Drex walks through how Anthropic's unreleased model…
S3E14 Executive Interview: Maximizing Security with the Tools You Already Have with Frank Duff
April 8, 2026: Frank Duff, Chief Innovation Officer at Tidal Cyber, and one of the original architects of the Mitre ATT&CK framework, joins Drex DeFord on UnHack to expose an uncomfortable truth:…
S9E28 Newsday: Healthcare Caught in the Crossfire of Iran War with Drex and Sarah
April 6, 2026: The rules of warfare have changed, and health systems are caught in the middle. On this episode of Newsday, Sarah Richardson and Drex DeFord break down two stories that should be on…
S3E13 Executive Interview: Securing Healthcare's Hidden Attack Surface with James Winebrenner
April 1, 2026: James Winebrenner, CEO of Elisity, joins Drex DeFord to unpack one of healthcare cybersecurity's most persistent challenges, the sprawling, unseen attack surface hiding inside hospital…
S12E3 2 Minute Drill: Who's Managing Your AI Agents? The Case for Non-Human HR with Drex DeFord
Drex makes the case for a role that doesn't exist yet but probably should: VP of Non-Human Resources. As AI agents multiply across health system environments, often deployed by vendors without…
S9E26 Newsday: Hackers Outpace Healthcare Resilience and Surviving a Merger with Drex and Bill
March 30, 2026: Bill Russell and Drex DeFord dig into three of the biggest stories shaping healthcare IT right now. From the seismic Sutter Health and Allina Health merger, the Stryker cyberattack…
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UnHack with Drex DeFord has published 200 episodes since February 2025, covering topics in Business, Health & Fitness.
UnHack with Drex DeFord is currently sporadic with new episodes daily. Average episode length is 14m.
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