Welcome to this week's episode of the PEBCAK Podcast! We’ve got three amazing stories this week so sit back, relax, and keep being awesome! Be sure to stick around for our Dad Joke of the Week. (DJOW)

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Freezers Into Ovens: Supermarket Sabotage, a Spy Bug at OpenAI & Tesla's Flying Roadster Hackers hijacked Danfoss refrigeration controllers at hundreds of French supermarkets, running defrost at 50°C (122°F) and spoiling food worth tens of millions of euros. - https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/attackers-heat-french-supermarket.html

- https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/france-fridge-hack-smart-devices-food-system-9.7379613

- https://claroty.com/team82/research/freeze-the-controller-defrost-the-food-uncovering-vulnerabilities-in-danfoss-refrigeration-controllers

A cyber incident at Ahold Delhaize knocked Albert Heijn's apps, deliveries, and distribution centers offline, leaving Dutch shelves short on fresh food.

- https://nltimes.nl/2026/10/14/albert-heijn-recovery-underway-cyberattack-damage-likely-tops-eu10-million - https://www.dutchnews.nl/2026/10/albert-heijn-begins-restocking-as-hack-traced-to-foreign-servers/

An OpenAI engineer was arrested for allegedly hiding a toilet-paper-wrapped recording device behind the TV in an executive conference room.

- https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/saudi-national-arrested-installing-surreptitious-audio-recording-device-openai-san - https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-engineer-arrested-for-allegedly-planting-spy-device-in-office/

Tesla finally unveiled the Roadster, complete with SpaceX cold-gas thrusters that let it hop over other Teslas, with production promised for 2028.

- https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/15/tesla-reveals-spacex-powered-roadster-that-flies-and-falls-with-style/

Dad Joke of the Week (DJOW)

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Chris - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chlouie/

Brian - https://www.linkedin.com/in/briandeitch-sase/

Glenn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/glennmedina/

Ben - https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamincorll/

A compliance-heavy customer, a quarter-end deadline, and a stock answer from the knowledge base that wasn’t going to cut it. Chris spun up a proof of concept on his own credit card and walked the customer through it live. Six months later, that account expanded into the largest commercial deal in company history.

Chapter 2 of Sales Engineering, Unfiltered covers what a Sales Engineer actually does, and why the demo is only about twenty percent of it:

• Why the job title has two words, and what happens when an SE is missing either half
• Being “coin operated”: the three questions to ask before you commit time to any request
• Why “I don’t know, but I’ll find out” builds more trust than bluffing

Every chapter ends with an action plan you can start this week.

New chapters drop every week. Find the full audiobook under Season 3 of this feed. Next week: Chapter 3, The Windshield Test.

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Welcome to this week's episode of the PEBCAK Podcast! We’ve got four amazing stories this week so sit back, relax, and keep being awesome! Be sure to stick around for our Dad Joke of the Week. (DJOW)

Follow us on Instagram @pebcakpodcast

Please share this podcast with someone you know! It helps us grow the podcast and we really appreciate it!

Support the hosts by buying a copy of our book: https://www.amazon.com/Sales-Engineering-Unfiltered-What-Someone/dp/B0HLWSJ448

A Fortnite player allegedly dared the FBI to show up at his door over voice chat. Epic reported him, and the FBI obliged three days later.

-https://www.dexerto.com/fortnite/fortnite-player-arrested-by-fbi-after-epic-games-report-his-voice-chat-threats-3416033/

A suspected South Korean bank hacker allegedly asked Claude Code to write a résumé bragging about his ARTEX hacking ops, complete with his own phone number and Telegram handle.

-https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/10-08-2026-korean-bank-hacker-asked-claude-where-to-sell-stolen-data-crowdstrike-says-375059181193646

-https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/unknown-threat-actor-uses-artex-to-target-south-korean-finance/

Microsoft Teams is adding third-party deepfake detection and impersonation warnings to meetings, with general availability slated for November.

-https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-teams-to-add-third-party-deepfake-detection-impersonation-protection/

Amazon's "About You" page shows what it has inferred about you from your shopping, and one shopper learned Amazon thinks she has "flat buttocks."

-https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/amazon-users-discover-bizarre-about-you-page-detailing-their-interests-how-to-check-yours-3416457/

Dad Joke of the Week (DJOW)

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Chris - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chlouie/

Glenn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/glennmedina/

Ben K. - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-k-b7196831/