February 25, 2025

Security Now 1014: FREEDOM Administration Login

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2 hours 39 minutes

Apple disables Advanced Data Protection for new UK users.

Paying ransoms is not as cut and dried as we might imagine.

Elon Musk's "X" social media blocks "Signal.me" links.

Spain's soccer league blocks Cloudflare and causes a mess.

Two new (and rare) vulnerabilities discovered in OpenSSH.

The U.S. seems unable to evict Chinese attackers from its Telecom systems.

What are those Chinese "Salt Typhoon" hackers doing to get in?

The largest (by far) cryptocurrency heist in history occurred Friday.

Ex-NSA head says the U.S. is falling behind on the cyber front lines.

We have the winner (and a good one) replacement term for "backdoor".

A look at a pathetic access control system that begs to be hacked (and will be).

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1014-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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February 25, 2025

Security Now 1014: FREEDOM Administration Login

Listen Later

2 hours 39 minutes

Apple disables Advanced Data Protection for new UK users.

Paying ransoms is not as cut and dried as we might imagine.

Elon Musk's "X" social media blocks "Signal.me" links.

Spain's soccer league blocks Cloudflare and causes a mess.

Two new (and rare) vulnerabilities discovered in OpenSSH.

The U.S. seems unable to evict Chinese attackers from its Telecom systems.

What are those Chinese "Salt Typhoon" hackers doing to get in?

The largest (by far) cryptocurrency heist in history occurred Friday.

Ex-NSA head says the U.S. is falling behind on the cyber front lines.

We have the winner (and a good one) replacement term for "backdoor".

A look at a pathetic access control system that begs to be hacked (and will be).

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1014-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.

Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!

Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Sponsors:

zscaler.com/security

joindeleteme.com/twit promo code TWIT

uscloud.com

canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT

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