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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 protec... more

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January 14, 2025SN 1008: HOTP and TOTP - SyncThing, Auto-Updates, Sci-Fi Recs
Meta winds down 3rd-party content filtering. Is encryption soon to follow?

Taking over abandoned Command & Control server domains (strictly for research purposes only).

IoT devices to get the "Cyber Trust Mark" — Will anyone notice or care?

"SyncThing" receives a (blessedly infrequent) update.

Government email is not using encryption? Really?

Email relaying prevents point-to-point end-to-end encryption and authentication.

Just because Let's Encrypt doesn't support email doesn't mean it's impossible.

What Sci-Fi does ChatGPT think I (Steve) should start reading next?

To auto-update or not to auto-update? — is that one question or two?

And, until today, we've never taken a deep dive into the technology of time-varying 6-digit one time tokens.

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1008-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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2h 50min
January 07, 2025SN 1007: AI Training & Inference - Unencrypted Email, Doom Captcha
The consequences of Internet content restriction.

The measured risks of 3rd-party browser extensions.

The consequences of SonicWall's unpatched 9.8 firewall severity.

The incredible number of still-unencrypted email servers.

SonicWall vulnerability patching

Shadowserver Foundation & eMail Encryption

Salt Typhoon Evicted

HIPAA gets a long-needed cybersecurity upgrade.

The EU standardizes on USB-C for power charging. What?

Believe it or not, a CATCHA you solve by playing DOOM.

And... what I learned from three weeks of study of AI

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1007-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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

Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

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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2h 47min
December 23, 2024SN 1006: Best of 2024 - Apple's Secret Backdoor, CrowdStrike Catastrophe, Recall's Privacy Nightmare
Leo revisits some of the year's top Security Now segments of 2024.
956. Apple's Hardware Backdoor: Steve reflects on the previous week's 'The Mystery of CVE-2023-38606' deep-dive. Did Apple deliberately designed a secure backdoor?

960. Unforeseen Consequences of Google's 3rd-party Cookie Cutoff: As Google moves to phase out third-party cookies, the advertising industry scrambles to find new ways to track users, potentially leading to more intrusive methods like requiring users to create accounts on websites.

961. Bitlocker: Chipped or Cracked?: A clever hacker demonstrates how BitLocker-encrypted drives can be compromised on systems using separate TPM chips, highlighting the importance of integrating TPM functionality directly into the CPU.

964. So, What Is Apple's PQ3?: Steve analyzes Apple's new "PQ3" post-quantum safe iMessaging protocol, uestioning whether it truly offers superior security compared to Signal's existing solution.

976. Recall - The 50 Gigabyte Privacy Bomb: Examining Microsoft's new "Recall" feature that records users' screens every few seconds, raising significant privacy concerns.

984. CrowdStruck: A look at the disastrous global IT outage caused by a faulty CrowdStrike Falcon update, affecting airports, hospitals, banks, and more.

1000. Steve and Leo reflect on 1000 episodes of Security Now.

1001. Artificial General Intelligence: Steve and Leo discuss the challenges in achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI) and the debate surrounding its potential timeline and societal impact.

Host: 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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2h 33min
December 17, 2024SN 1005: 6-Day Certificates? Why? - Android Anti-Tracking, MFA lLogin Bypass, BIMI
Is AI the Wizard of Oz? Or is it more?

Microsoft's long standing effective MFA login bypass.

Is TPM 2.0 not required after all for Windows 11?

Meet 14 North Korean IT workers who made $88 million from the West.

Android updates its Bluetooth tracking with anti-tracking.

The NPM package manager repository has had 540,000 malicious packages discovered hiding in plain sight.

The AskWoody site remains alive, well, and terrific.

My iPhone is linked to Windows and it's wonderful. Yay.

How has email been finding logos before BIMI?

If we use Him and Her for people, how about Hal for AI?

Another very disturbing conversation with ChatGPT.

What's going on with the new ChatGPT o1 model? It wants to escape? What??

Let's Encrypt plans to reduce its certificate lifetime from 90 to just 6 days. Why in the world?

And all the best holiday wishes. See you in January

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1005-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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

Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

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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2h 25min
December 10, 2024SN 1004: A Chat with GPT - China's Telecom Hack, Microsoft Activation Cracked, Coding with ChatGPT 4o
This week, Steve and Leo discuss the recent 'Salt Typhoon' hack of U.S. telecom providers by China, TPM 2.0 requirement for Windows 11, Microsoft's newly hacked Windows activation system, Apple patenting AI facial and body recognition, and much more. Steve also shares an intriguing conversation he had with the ChatGPT 4o AI system while working on an update to GRC's DNS Benchmark tool.
All telecom providers have been hacked and may still not be safe to use. So now the government is recommending that we use our own encrypted communications.

The plan to obsolete all non-TPM 2.0 PCs remains well underway. Microsoft must be feeling the heat, so they're taking time to not apologize.

Whoops. Microsoft's product activation system has been fully hacked. All Windows and Office products may now be easily activated without any licensing.

Here come the AI patents. Apple patents AI recognizing people by what they're wearing after earlier seeing their faces and noting what they're wearing.

Zoom wasn't encrypting their early video conferencing. They're still trying to get out from under the mess their lies created for them.

AWS introduces physical data terminal locations where users can go to perform massive data transfers to and from the cloud.

The FTC has set its sights on data brokers. Let's hope something comes of it.

GRC's email finally gets BIMI. (Can you see the Ruby-G logo?)

Lot's a terrific listener feedback about authenticator policy, a new and free point-to-point link service, Tor's "Snowflake", linking PCs and Smartphones, and even recharging spent SodaStream canisters.

Then we look at a recent conversation Steve had with "ChatGPT 4o with canvas" and the new plan that resulted

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1004-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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

Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

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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2h 34min
December 03, 2024SN 1003: A Light-Day Away - Digital Epileptic Seizures, Tor Needs You, Zello Password Panic, Wireguard's Open Port Debate
Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte discuss Microsoft's clarification about AI training data usage, a fascinating breakthrough in understanding autonomous vehicle vulnerabilities, and an urgent call for help from the Tor Network. The show culminates in an in-depth exploration of NASA's incredible Voyager 1 mission, which continues to communicate with Earth from nearly a light-day away despite increasing technical challenges.
Microsoft clarifies they are NOT using customer data from Office apps to train AI models

"Digital epileptic seizures" caused by flashing emergency vehicle lights can confuse automated driving systems, posing crash risks

Tor Network issues urgent call for volunteers to run new WebTunnel bridges to circumvent censorship in Russia

Zello asks its 140 million users to change passwords as a precautionary measure, hinting at a possible data breach

FTC opens broad antitrust investigation into Microsoft's business practices across software, cloud, cybersecurity, and AI

New Android scareware tactic simulates a seriously cracked and malfunctioning smartphone screen

Steve argues it's likely safe to leave Wireguard VPN ports open, but he prefers not to out of an abundance of caution

Research shows AI training on AI-generated content can lead to homogeneity and loss of diversity in outputs

Australia passes world-first law banning children under 16 from social media, with hefty fines for non-compliant platforms

NASA's Voyager 1 probe, nearly a light-day from Earth, resumes operations after a communications scare but faces mounting technical challenges as it nears the end of its life

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1003-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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

Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

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.
Sponsors:
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2h 19min
November 26, 2024SN 1002: Disconnected Experiences - "Nearest Neighbor" Attack, Repo Swatting, the Return of Recall
What's the new "nearest neighbor" attack and how do you defend against it?

Let's Encrypt just turned 10. What changes has it wrought?

Now the Coast Guard is worried about Chinese built ship-to-shore cranes.

Pakistan becomes the first country to block Bluesky.

There's a new way to get Git repos "swatted" and removed.

Who's to blame for Palo Alto Networks' serious new 0-day vulnerabilities?

If you have any of these six D-Link VPN routers, unplug them immediately!

It turns out that VPN apps are against Shariah Law. Who knew?

The Return of Windows Recall. What are we learning now?

How many of today's systems remain vulnerable to last year's most popular exploits?

We share and respond to a bunch of terrific feedback from our listeners.

What are Microsoft's "Connected Experience" and why might you choose to disconnect from them?

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1002-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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

Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

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.
Sponsors:
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2h 33min
November 19, 2024SN 1001: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) - Gmail Temp Addresses, Russia's Internet Off Switch
How Microsoft lured the US Government into a far deeper and expensive dependency upon its cybersecurity solutions.

Gmail to offer native throwaway email aliases like Apple and Mozilla.

Russia to ban several additional hosting companies and give its big Internet disconnect switch another test.

Russia uses a diabolical Windows flaw to attack Ukrainians.

The value of old Security Now episodes.

TrueCrypt's successor.

Using Cloudflare's Tunnel service for remote network access.

How to make a local server appear to be on a remote public IP.

How to share an 'impossible to type' password with someone.

How to find obscure previous references in the Security Now podcast.

What are the parameters for the expected and widely anticipated next generation Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)? What do those in the industry and academia expect? And is OpenAI's Sam Altman completely nuts for predicting it next year? Is it just a stock ploy?

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1001-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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

Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

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.
Sponsors:
bigid.com/securitynow
joindeleteme.com/twit promo code TWIT
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2h 27min
November 12, 2024SN 1000: One Thousand - Windows Server 2025, Malicious Python Typos
Bitwarden reaffirms it's commitment to open source.

The rights of German security researchers are clarified.

Australia to impose age limits on social media.

Free Windows Server 2025 anyone?

UAC wasn't getting in the way enough, so they're fixing that.

"From Russia with fines" -- obey or else.

South Korea fines Meta over serious user privacy violations.

Synology's (very) critical zero-click RCE flaw.

Malicious Python packages invoked by typos.

Google to enforce full MFA for all cloud service users.

Mozilla Foundation lays off 30%? Is Firefox safe?

Some feedback from Dave's Garage (https://grc.sc/dave)

GRC email

CTL: AI Debugging

CTL: Chat GPT vs YouTube Shorts

CTL: Update on the "Train Tracks" Pic of the Week

CTL: DNS Benchmark compatibility

CTL: The accuracy of AI

CTL: Exposing NAS to the Internet

CTL: Congrats on 1000!

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1000-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.

Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

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.
Sponsors:
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threatlocker.com for Security Now
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2h 18min
November 05, 2024SN 999: AI Vulnerability Discovery - RT's AI TV Hosts, Windows 10 Updates
Google's record-breaking fine by Russia. (How many 0's is that?)

RT's editor-in-chief admits that their TV hosts are AI-generated.

Windows 10 security updates set to end next October... or are they?

When a good Chrome extension goes bad.

Windows .RDP launch config files. What could possibly go wrong?

Firefox 132 just received some new features.

Chinese security cameras being removed from the UK.

I know YOU wouldn't fall for this social engineering attack.

What's GRC's next semi-commercial product going to be?

And what's the prospect for AI being used to analyze code to eliminate security vulnerabilities?

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-999-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.

Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

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.
Sponsors:
joindeleteme.com/twit promo code TWIT
1password.com/securitynow
bigid.com/securitynow
Melissa.com/twit
...more
1h 54min

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