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Cybersecurity guru Steve Gibson joins Leo Laporte every Tuesday. Steve and Leo break down the latest cybercrime and hacking stories, offering a deep understanding of what's happening and how to protect yourself and your business. Security Now is a must listen for security professionals every week.

Records live every Tuesday at 4:30pm Eastern / 1:30pm Pacific / 20:30 UTC.

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• Utah passes age verification requirement for app stores.
 
 • The inside story on fake North Korean employees. Is that a Texas accent?
 
 • An update on the ongoing Bybit cryptoheist saga.
 
 • The industry may be making some changes in the wake of the Bybit attack.
 
 • Apple pushes back legally against the UK's secret order.
 
 • Did someone crack Passkeys?
 
 • The UK launches a legal salvo at an innocent security researcher.
 
 • The old data breach we witnessed that just keeps on giving.
 
 • A bit more Bybit postmortem forensic news.
 
 • A lesson to learn from a clever and effective ransomware attack.
 
 • And what about that Bluetooth Backdoor discovery everyone is talking about?
 

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1016-Notes.pdf
 

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
 

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For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
 

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SN 1016: The Bluetooth Backdoor - North Korean Texans, Apple Pushes Back

• An analysis of Telegram Messenger's crypto.
 
 • A beautiful statement of the goal of modern crypto design.
 
 • Who was behind Twitter's recent outage trouble?
 
 • An embedded Firefox root certificate expired. Who was surprised?
 
 • AI-generated Github repos, voice cloning, Patch Tuesday and an Apple 0-day.
 
 • The FBI warns of another novel attack vector that's seeing a lot of action.
 
 • Google weighs in on the Age Verification controversy.
 
 • In a vacuum, Kazakhstan comes up with their own solution.
 
 • Was Google also served an order from the UK? Can they say?
 
 • A serious PHP vulnerability you need to know you don't have.
 
 • A bunch of great listener feedback, some Sci-Fi content reviews and...
 
 • A new tool allows YOU to test YOUR PCs for their RowHammer susceptibility
 

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1017-Notes.pdf
 

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
 

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You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page.
 

For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
 

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SN 1017: Is YOUR System Vulnerable to RowHammer? - Telegram's Crypto, Twitter Outage, FBI Warning

• The dangers of doing things you don't understand.
 
 • Espressif responds to the claims of an ESP32 backdoor.
 
 • A widely leveraged mistake Microsoft stubbornly refuses to correct.
 
 • A disturbingly simple remote takeover of Apache Tomcat servers.
 
 • A 10/10 vulnerability affecting some ASUS, ASRock and HPE motherboards.
 
 • Google snapped up another cloud security firm but paid a price!
 
 • RCS messaging to soon get full end-to-end encryption (done right!).
 
 • How did an AI Crypto Chatbot lose $105,000? ...and what is an AI Crypto Chatbot?
 
 • Looks like Oracle may take stewardship of TikTok to keep it in-country.
 
 • Whoops! 23andMe is sinking — don't let them take your genetics with them!
 
 • The White House says "the cyber guys should stay!"
 
 • AI project failure rates are on the rise. Anyone surprised?
 
 • Listener feedback, and a very interesting update on just how looming is the threat from quantum computing?
 

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1018-Notes.pdf
 

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
 

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You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page.
 

For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
 

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SN 1018: The Quantum Threat - ESP32 Backdoor Update, RCS E2EE

• Kuala Lumpur International Airport says no to a ransom attack, switches to whiteboard.
 
 • A tired and jet-lagged Troy Hunt got Phished then listed himself on his own site.
 
 • Cloudflare completely pulls the plug on port 80 (HTTP) API access.
 
 • Malware is switching to obscure languages to avoid detection. FORTH, anyone?
 
 • Password reuse doesn't appear to be dropping. Cloudflare has numbers.
 
 • A listener shares his log of malicious Microsoft login attempts. Why no geofencing?
 
 • 23andMe down for the count (reminder).
 
 • A sobering Ransomware attack & victim listing website. Gulp!
 
 • "InControl" keeps VR planes aloft.
 
 • And the European Union gets serious about a switch to Linux
 

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1019-Notes.pdf
 

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
 

Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.
 

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For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
 

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SN 1019: EU OS - Troy Hunt Phished, Ransomware List, InControl

• Canon printer driver vulnerabilities enable Windows kernel exploitation.
 
 • Astonishing cyber-security awareness from a household appliance manufacturer.
 
 • France tries to hook 2.5 million school children with a Phishing test.
 
 • Wordpress added an abuse prone feature in 2022. Guess what happened?
 
 • Oracle? Is there something you'd like to tell us?
 
 • Utah's governor just signed the App Store Accountability Act. Now what?
 
 • AI bots hungry for new data are DDoSing FOSS projects.
 
 • No Microsoft Account? No Microsoft Windows 11.
 
 • Gmail claims it now offers E2EE. It kinda sorta does. Somewhat.
 
 • A dreaded CVSS 10.0 was discovered in Apache Parquet.
 
 • A bunch of terrific listener feedback.
 
 • What's Multi-Perspective Issuance Corroboration and why must all certificate authorities now do it?
 

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1020-Notes.pdf
 

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
 

Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.
 

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For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
 

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SN 1020: Multi-Perspective Issuance Corroboration - IoT Done Right, France Phishes, Gmails E2EE

• Android to get "Lockdown Mode".
 
 • What's in the new editions of Chrome and Firefox?
 
 • Why did Apple silently re-enable automatic updates?
 
 • My new iPhone 16, Chinese tariffs and electronics.
 
 • Dynamic "hotpatching" coming to Win11 Enterprise & Edu.
 
 • Why is it so difficult for Oracle to fess up?
 
 • Another multi-year breach inside US Treasury.
 
 • An Apple -vs- the UK update.
 
 • "Thundermail" (Can't someone come up with a better name?)
 
 • The (in)Security of Programmable Logic Controllers.
 
 • When LLM's write code and hallucinate non-existent packages.
 
 • Wordpress core security and PHP gets an important audit.
 
 • Device-Bound Session Credentials update session cookie technology
 

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1021-Notes.pdf
 

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
 

Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.
 

You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page.
 

For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
 

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SN 1021: Device Bound Session Credentials - Hotpatching in Win 11, Apple vs. UK

• Enabling Firefox's Tab Grouping.
 
 • Recalled Recall Re-Rolls out.
 
 • The crucial CVE program nearly died. It's been given new life.
 
 • China confesses to hacking the US (blames our stance on Taiwan).
 
 • CISA says what Oracle still refuses to.
 
 • Brute force attacks on the (rapid) rise.
 
 • An AI/ML Python package rates a 9.8 (again!)
 
 • The CA/Browser forum passed short-life certs. :(
 
 • A wonderful crosswalk hack hits Silicon Valley.
 
 • Android to add force restarting ahead of schedule. Maybe.
 
 • The EFF is never happy. But especially now, about Florida.
 
 • Interesting research into ransomware payouts.
 
 • Windows Sandbox: The amazing gem hidden inside all Windows 10 & 11!
 

Show Notesb - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1022-Notes.pdf
 

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
 

Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.
 

You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page.
 

For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
 

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SN 1022: The Windows Sandbox - Short-life Certs, Ransomware Payout Stats

• Why did a mysterious empty "inetpub" directory appear after April's Patch Tuesday?
 
 • And what new Windows Update crashing hack did this also create?
 
 • North Korea is now creating fake US companies to lure would-be employees.
 
 • The "Inception" attack subverts all GPT conversational AIs.
 
 • New information about data loss in unpowered SSD mass storage.
 
 • Lots of terrific feedback from our listeners.
 
 • How malware has taken to hiding inside the Windows Sandbox and what you can do to stop it
 

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1023-Notes.pdf
 

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
 

Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.
 

You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page.
 

For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
 

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SN 1023: Preventing Windows Sandbox Abuse - Microsoft Says "Don't Delete This Folder"

• Microsoft to officially abandon passwords and support their deletion.
 
 • Meta's RayBan smart glasses weaken their privacy terms.
 
 • 30% of Microsoft code is now being written by AI.
 
 • Google says prying Chrome from it will damage its security.
 
 • Nearly 1,000 six-year-old eCommerce backdoors spring to life.
 
 • eM Client moves to version 10.3
 
 • A bunch of terrific listener feedback creates talking points.
 
 • A little-known, insecure message archiving service comes to light.
 

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-1024-notes.pdf
 

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
 

Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.
 

You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page.
 

For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
 

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SN 1024: Don't Blame Signal - The Real Story Behind the TM SGNL Breach

• The state of Virginia passes an age-restriction law that has no chance.
 
 • New Zealand also tries something similar, citing Australia's lead.
 
 • A nasty Python package for Discord survived 3 years and 11K downloads.
 
 • The FBI says it's a good idea to discard end-of-life consumer routers.
 
 • What's in WhatsApp? Finding out was neither easy nor certain.
 
 • The UK's Cyber Centre says AI promises to make things much worse.
 
 • A bunch of great feedback from our great listeners, then:
 
 • Is true end-to-end encryption possible when records must be retained?
 

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1025-Notes.pdf
 

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
 

Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.
 

You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page.
 

For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
 

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SN 1023: Preventing Windows Sandbox Abuse - Microsoft Says "Don't Delete This Folder"

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