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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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2 hr 54 min
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

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3 hr 15 min
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

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3 hr 9 min
April 01, 2025SN 1019: EU OS - Troy Hunt Phished, Ransomware List, InControl
Kuala Lumpur International Airport says no to a ransom attack, switches to whiteboard.

A tired and jet-lagged Troy Hunt got Phished then listed himself on his own site.

Cloudflare completely pulls the plug on port 80 (HTTP) API access.

Malware is switching to obscure languages to avoid detection. FORTH, anyone?

Password reuse doesn't appear to be dropping. Cloudflare has numbers.

A listener shares his log of malicious Microsoft login attempts. Why no geofencing?

23andMe down for the count (reminder).

A sobering Ransomware attack & victim listing website. Gulp!

"InControl" keeps VR planes aloft.

And the European Union gets serious about a switch to Linux

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1019-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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3 hr 6 min
March 25, 2025SN 1018: The Quantum Threat - ESP32 Backdoor Update, RCS E2EE
The dangers of doing things you don't understand.

Espressif responds to the claims of an ESP32 backdoor.

A widely leveraged mistake Microsoft stubbornly refuses to correct.

A disturbingly simple remote takeover of Apache Tomcat servers.

A 10/10 vulnerability affecting some ASUS, ASRock and HPE motherboards.

Google snapped up another cloud security firm but paid a price!

RCS messaging to soon get full end-to-end encryption (done right!).

How did an AI Crypto Chatbot lose $105,000? ...and what is an AI Crypto Chatbot?

Looks like Oracle may take stewardship of TikTok to keep it in-country.

Whoops! 23andMe is sinking — don't let them take your genetics with them!

The White House says "the cyber guys should stay!"

AI project failure rates are on the rise. Anyone surprised?

Listener feedback, and a very interesting update on just how looming is the threat from quantum computing?

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1018-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2 hr 53 min
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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2 hr 54 min
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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2 hr 57 min
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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2 hr 53 min
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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2 hr 40 min
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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2 hr 32 min

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