An expert in cybersecurity and network infrastructure, Nick Espinosa is a nationally recognized speaker, member of the Forbes Technology Council, TEDx Speaker, regular columnist for Forbes, award winning co-author of a bestselling book "Easy Prey", on the Board of Advisors for Roosevelt University's College of Arts and Sciences as well as their Center for Cyber and Information Security and also Bits N’ Bytes Cybersecurity Education, Nick is known as an industry thought leader and sought after for his advice on the future of technology and how it will impact every day businesses and consumers. Nick has consulted with clients ranging from small businesses up to the Fortune 100 level. He founded Windy City Networks, Inc in 1998 at age 19 and was acquired by BSSi2 LLC in 2013 where he is their CIO. In 2015 Security Fanatics, a Cybersecurity/Cyberwarfare outfit dedicated to designing custom Cyberdefense strategies for medium to enterprise corporations, was launched.
Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
ICE's $100 Million Intelligence Expansion Should Concern Everyone by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
AI Companies Shouldn't Investigate Themselves by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
The FBI Hack: What You Need To Know by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
Congress Is FINALLY Pushing Back on Flock Surveillance by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
Is Choosing Your Own Social Media Feed Really Censorship? by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
The Surveillance State Keeps Expanding by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
AT&T, Nippon Steel, AstraZeneca, PayPal are part of the fun this week. 245 breaches total!
AI Can Now Decide Who Dies by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
Russia's Deepfake Attack on the 2026 Election Has Begun by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
US AI companies are accusing Chinese AI companies of ripping them off. The global theaters of conflict are starting to merge and, with the US shifting resources away from eastern Asia, Taiwan is in the crosshairs. We cover this and so much more.
The World's Wars Are Merging, and Taiwan Could Be Next by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
AI's Making The Surveillance State Affordable by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
Flock Cameras Are a Stalker's Dream by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
The National Security Agency says it wants access to every major artificial-intelligence model on the commercial market. Combined with the NSA's existing surveillance databases, interception systems, hacking capabilities, and secret intelligence authorities, advanced AI could make population-scale surveillance easier, faster, cheaper, and far more powerful than anything Edward Snowden revealed. The NSA would no longer need enough human analysts to read the world's communications. We cover this and so much more.
The US–China AI War Just Got More Dangerous by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
And this latest lawsuit won't stop them.
Chinese EVs Really Underscore US Complacency by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
Let's just all get drunk this weekend...
Move Fast And Break Things Has To End by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
And Anthropic Knows This All Too Well...
The EPA Wants Data Centers To Be Approved In The Dark by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
History shows us this ain't great.
Carhartt, McKesson, Boston Scientific, Hasbro, and a total of 214 organization had a super week...
We Told AI To Stop. It Didn't. by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
America's Grid Security Gamble by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
Meta's Child Safety Settlement is an Absolute Joke by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
Cybersecurity is about to get WAY more difficult... by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
Is AI Having a Reckoning? by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
ASCII Group, Sears, Kingston, Columbia University and we have 297 total incidents to get through this week... Strap in!
How Many Americans Has the Government Hacked? by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
Flock AI: Guilty Until Proven Innocent by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
Apple Intelligence. Approved by Beijing. by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
Let's confront a question most Americans are not prepared to face: Is the surveillance state still coming... or are we already more than halfway there? Stay with me, because the answer should alarm everyone. We'll cover this and so much more.
The Surveillance State Has Already Begun by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
Mark Zuckerberg is allowing his AI on all platforms to willingly ingest disinformation and repackage it as authoritative. Also, as the surveillance state keeps expanding, who actually has oversight!? This is an insanely packed show!!! We discuss all of this and so much more.
Saudi Arabia's AI Copyright Gamble by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
China Just Dumped Your AI Girlfriend by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
Your Robot Vacuum May Be A Double Agent by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
Levi Strauss, Lucid Motors, OpenAI and a whole bunch more are all part of this week's fun...
and it's coming for us all sooner than later...
Why Is The White House Hiding Their Cybersecurity Plan? by Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic
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