<p>Christmas in full swing at both Eric and Jon's places. Less secure certificate validation mechanisms being deprecated, and SEO of AI chats to deploy ClickFix style lures for Stealer installation. For fun we have a shockingly good way to avoid motion sickness in VR, and a promising Leukemia treatment using gene therapy.</p> <ul> <li>0:00 - Intro</li> <li>9:28 - <a href= "https://security.googleblog.com/2025/12/https-certificate-industry-phasing-out.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Weak Validation</a></li> <li>14:45 - <a href= "https://www.huntress.com/blog/amos-stealer-chatgpt-grok-ai-trust" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Red Flags</a></li> <li>21:34 - <a href= "https://skarredghost.com/2025/12/10/neural-balance-innovations-gvs-motion-sickness/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stimbox</a></li> <li>27:42 - <a href= "https://www.iflscience.com/radical-new-treatment-clears-disease-in-64-percent-of-patients-with-incurable-cancer-81836" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BE-CAR7</a></li> </ul>

Christmas in full swing at both Eric and Jon's places. Less secure certificate validation mechanisms being deprecated, and SEO of AI chats to deploy ClickFix style lures for Stealer installation. For fun we have a shockingly good way to avoid motion sickness in VR, and a promising Leukemia treatment using gene therapy. 0:00 - Intro 9:28 - Weak Validation 14:45 - No Red Flags 21:34 - Stimbox 27:42 - BE-CAR7

<p>Christmas in full swing at both Eric and Jon's places. Less secure certificate validation mechanisms being deprecated, and SEO of AI chats to deploy ClickFix style lures for Stealer installation. For fun we have a shockingly good way to avoid motion sickness in VR, and a promising Leukemia treatment using gene therapy.</p> <ul> <li>0:00 - Intro</li> <li>9:28 - <a href="https://security.googleblog.com/2025/12/https-certificate-industry-phasing-out.html" rel="noopener noreferrer">Weak Validation</a></li> <li>14:45 - <a href="https://www.huntress.com/blog/amos-stealer-chatgpt-grok-ai-trust" rel="noopener noreferrer">No Red Flags</a></li> <li>21:34 - <a href="https://skarredghost.com/2025/12/10/neural-balance-innovations-gvs-motion-sickness/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Stimbox</a></li> <li>27:42 - <a href="https://www.iflscience.com/radical-new-treatment-clears-disease-in-64-percent-of-patients-with-incurable-cancer-81836" rel="noopener noreferrer">BE-CAR7</a></li> </ul>

418: Pernicious

From commentary on current events to random musings, they chat (mostly) about security and technology topics.  However, life is more than just the day job, there's always something fun to wrap up the show.

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From commentary on current events to random musings, they chat (mostly) about security and technology topics. However, life is more than just the day job, there's always something fun to wrap up the show.

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