Security Now (Audio)

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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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March 18, 2025SN 1017: Is YOUR System Vulnerable to RowHammer? - Telegram's Crypto, Twitter Outage, FBI Warning
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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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 54min
March 11, 2025SN 1016: The Bluetooth Backdoor - North Korean Texans, Apple Pushes Back
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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2h 57min
March 04, 2025SN 1015: Spatial-Domain Wireless Jamming - Firefox Privacy Policy, Signal Leaving Sweden?
Firefox amends their privacy policy -- the world melts down.

Signal threatens to leave Sweden.

Aftermath of the massive $1.5 billion Bybit ETH heist.

It turns out that it wasn't actually Bybit's fault.

"The Lazarus Bounty" monitoring and management site.

Mozilla's commitment to Manifest V2 (and the uBlock Origin).

What does the ACM's plea for memory-safe languages mean for developers?

What exactly are memory-safe languages?

Australia joins the Kaspersky ban.

Gmail plans to switch from SMS to QR code authentication.

A SpinRite success and some fun feedback.

An astonishing new technology for targeted radio jamming

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1015-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2h 53min
February 25, 2025SN 1014: FREEDOM Administration Login - Apple's UK Privacy Showdown, $1.5 Billion Crypto Heist
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

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2h 40min
February 18, 2025SN 1013: The Chrome Web Store is a mess - Apple Encryption in the UK, Texas Vs. DeepSeek
US lawmakers respond to the UK's outrageous demand about Apple's encryption.

What, exactly, is a "backdoor", and can a "backdoor" NOT be secret?

Highlights from last week's Windows' Patch Tuesday.

A look into RansomHub: The latest king of the Ransomware hill.

"TOAD": Telephone-Oriented Attack Delivery.

The state of Texas -versus- DeepSeek.

Disabling Apple's "Restricted Mode".

Where did I put that $800 million in Bitcoin?

A Sci-Fi author update.

And a deep dive into the misoperation of Chrome's critically important Web Extension Store

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1013-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 32min
February 11, 2025SN 1012: Hiding School Cyberattacks - SparkCat, Decrypting ADP, AI Fuzzing
New "SparkCat" secret-stealing AI image scanner discovered in App and Play stores.

The UK demands that Apple does the impossible: decrypting ADP cloud data.

France moves forward on legislation to require backdoors to encryption.

Firefox moves to 135 with a bunch of useful new features.

The Five Eyes alliance publishes edge-device security guidance.

Six NetGear routers contain CVSS 9.6 and 9.8 vulnerabilities.

Sysinternals utilities allow malicious Windows DLL injection.

Google removes restrictive do-gooder language from AI application policies.

"AI Fuzzing" successfully jailbreaks the most powerful ChatGPT o3 model.

Examining the well and deliberately hidden truth behind ransomware cyberattacks on U.S. K-12 schools

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1012-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 42min
February 04, 2025SN 1011: Jailbreaking AI - Deepseek, "ROUTERS" Act, Zyxel Vulnerability
Why was DeepSeek banned by Italian authorities?

What internal proprietary DeepSeek data was found online?

What is "DeepSeek" anyway? Why do we care, and what does it mean?

Did Microsoft just make OpenAI's strong model available for free?

Google explains how generative AI can be and is being misused.

An actively exploited and unpatched Zyxel router vulnerability.

The new US "ROUTERS" Act.

Is pirate-site blocking legislation justified or is it censorship?

Russia's blocked website count tops 400,000.

Microsoft adds "scareware" warnings to Edge.

Bitwarden improves account security.

What's still my favorite disk imaging tool?

And let's take a close look into the extraction of proscribed knowledge from today's AI

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1011-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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3h 2min
January 28, 2025SN 1010: DNS Over TLS - Record DDoS, Hackers Get Hacked
eM Client CAN be purchased outright.

An astonishing 5-year-old typo in MasterCard's DNS.

An unwelcome surprise received by 18,459 low-level hackers.

DDoS attacks continue growing, seemingly without any end in sight.

Let's Encrypt clarifies their plans for 6-day "we barely knew you" certificates.

SpinRite uncovers a bad brand new 8TB drive.

Listener feedback about TOTP, Syncthing and UDP hole punching, email spam, ValiDrive speed, AI neural nets, DJI geofencing, and advertising in the "New" Outlook.

A look into the tradeoffs required to obtain privacy for our DNS lookups

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1010-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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2h 41min
January 21, 2025SN 1009: Attacking TOTP - Force-Installed Outlook, DJI Firmware Update
What do we learn from January's record breaking 0-day critical Patch Tuesday?

Microsoft to "force-install" a new Outlook into all Windows 10 and 11 desktops?

GoDaddy required to get much more serious about its hosting security.

More age verification enforcement is coming, including globally.

What another instance of a widely exposed management interface teaches us.

DJI drone's official firmware update lifts geofencing for unrestricted flight.

CISA's efforts pay off with MUCH improved critical infrastructure security.

Listener feedback about TOTP, HOTP and age-verification.

And we take a deep dive into cracking authenticator keys

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1009-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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3h 8min
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

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

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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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2h 50min

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