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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Security Now (Audio) episodes:

June 10, 2025SN 1029: The Illusion of Thinking - Meta Apps and JavaScript Collusion
In memoriam: Bill Atkinson

Meta native apps & JavaScript collude for a localhost local mess.

The EU rolls out its own DNS4EU filtered DNS service.

Ukraine DDoS's Russia's Railway DNS ... and... so what?

The Linux Foundation creates an alternative Wordpress package manager.

Court tells OpenAI it must NOT delete ANYONE's chats. Period! :(

A CVSS 10.0 in Erlang/OTP's SSH library.

Can Russia intercept Telegram? Perhaps.

Spain's ISPs mistakenly block Google sites.

Reddit sues Anthropic.

Twitter's new encrypted DM's are as lame as the old ones.

The Login.gov site may not have any backups.

Apple explores the question of recent Large Reasoning Models "thinking"

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1029-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 46min
June 03, 2025SN 1028: AI Vulnerability Hunting - The End of Jailbreaking
Pwn2Own 2025, Berlin results.

PayPal seeks a "newly registered domains" patent.

An expert iOS jailbreak developer gives up.

The rising abuse of SVG images, via JavaScript.

Interesting feedback from our listeners.

Four classic science fiction movies not to miss.

How OpenAI's o3 model discovered a 0-day in the Linux kernel

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1028-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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3h 9min
May 27, 2025SN 1027: Artificial Intelligence - The Status of Encrypted Client Hello
What the status of Encrypted Client Hello (ECH)?

What radio technology would be best for remote inverter shutdown?

Some DNS providers already block newly listed domains.

Knowing when not to click a link can take true understanding.

Why can losing a small portion of a power grid bring the rest down?

Where are we in the "AI Hype Cycle" and is this the first?

Speaking of hype: An AI system resorted to blackmail?

Why are we so quick to imbue AI with awareness?

ChatGPT's latest o3 model ignored the order to shutdown.

Copilot may not be making Windows core code any better.

Venice.AI is an unfiltered and unrestrained LLM

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1027-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2h 55min
May 20, 2025SN 1026: Rogue Comms Tech Found in US Power Grid - Is AI Replicating Itself?
Chrome to actively refuse admin privileges.

Android Messenger is getting manual key verification.

Pwn2Own to add AI "pwning" as in-scope attack targets.

AI has already been found to be replicating.

Microsoft not killing off Office on Win10 after October.

23andMe's asset purchaser revealed.

Many fun talking points thanks to our listeners.

Steve's review of "Andor", season 2.

What's been discovered inside the U.S. power grid

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1026-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2h 48min
May 13, 2025SN 1025: Secure Conversation Records Retention - FBI Says to Toss Your Old Router
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

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2h 45min
May 06, 2025SN 1024: Don't Blame Signal - The Real Story Behind the TM SGNL Breach
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

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2h 47min
April 29, 2025SN 1023: Preventing Windows Sandbox Abuse - Microsoft Says "Don't Delete This Folder"
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

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2h 45min
April 22, 2025SN 1022: The Windows Sandbox - Short-life Certs, Ransomware Payout Stats
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

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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
April 15, 2025SN 1021: Device Bound Session Credentials - Hotpatching in Win 11, Apple vs. UK
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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3h 15min
April 08, 2025SN 1020: Multi-Perspective Issuance Corroboration - IoT Done Right, France Phishes, Gmails E2EE
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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3h 9min

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