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  • SN 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

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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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      • 2 hr 19 min
    • SN 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

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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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        • 2 hr 33 min
      • SN 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

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        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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          • 2 hr 27 min
        • SN 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:

          • bitwarden.com/twit
          • threatlocker.com for Security Now
          • flashpoint.io
          • lookout.com

            • 2 hr 18 min
          • SN 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

              • 1 hr 54 min
            • SN 998: The Endless Journey to IPv6 - AI-Driven Encryption, Session Messenger, IPv6
            • Apple proposes 45-day maximum certificate life.
            • SEC fines four companies for downplaying their SolarWinds attack severity.
            • Google adds 5 new features to Messenger including inappropriate content.
            • Does AI-driven local device-side filtering resolve the encryption dilemma forever?
            • The very nice looking "Session" messenger leaves Australia for Switzerland.
            • Another quick look at the question of the EU's software liability moves.
            • Fake North Korean employees WERE found to install backdoor malware.
            • How to speed up an SSD without using SpinRite.
            • Using ChatGPT to review and suggest improvements in code.
            • And Internet governance has been trying to move the Internet to IPv6 for the past 25 years, but the Internet just doesn't want to go. Why not? And will it ever?

              • Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-998-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:

              • canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT
              • e-e.com/twit
              • threatlocker.com for Security Now
              • 1password.com/securitynow

                • 2 hr 54 min
              • SN 997: Credential Exchange Protocol - DJI Sues DoD, Quantum Vs. RSA, Lost MS Logs
              • Did Chinese researchers really break RSA encryption? What did they do?
              • What next-level terror extortion is being powered by the NPD breach data?
              • The EU to hold software companies liable for software security?
              • Microsoft lost weeks of security logs. How hard did the try to fix the problem?
              • The Chinese drone company DJI has sued the DoJ over its ban on DJI's drones.
              • The DoJ wishes to acquire "DeepFake" technology to create fake people.
              • Microsoft has bots pretending to fall for phishing campaigns, then leading the bad guys to their honeypots. It's diabolical and brilliant.
              • A bit of BIMI logo follow-up, then...
              • A look at the operation of the FIDO Alliance's forthcoming Credential Exchange Protocol which promises to create passkey collection portability

                • Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-997-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:

                • threatlocker.com for Security Now
                • flashpoint.io
                • lookout.com
                • bitwarden.com/twit

                  • 2 hr 19 min
                • SN 996: BIMI (up Scotty) - NPD Goes Broke, Firefox Under Attack, .io
                • uBlock Origin to the rescue
                • National Public Data files for bankruptcy
                • Will the .IO top level domain be disappearing?
                • Patch Tuesday
                • Firefox under attack
                • Miscellany
                • Sci-Fi
                • The Sequence
                • uBlock Origin
                • Eero Routers
                • Pep Link Router
                • BIMI (up Scotty)

                  • Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-996-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:

                  • 1password.com/securitynow
                  • threatlocker.com for Security Now
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                    • 2 hr 33 min
                  • SN 995: uBlock Origin & Manifest V3 - DDoS Record, N. Korean Workers, Vitamin D
                  • Facebook's parent Meta not hashing passwords
                  • A New, forthcoming PayPal default opts their users into merchant data sharing
                  • DDoS breaks another record
                  • Speaking of these ASUS routers
                  • Do you know who you're hiring?
                  • Vitamin D
                  • The CUPS vulnerablility
                  • Routers for normal people
                  • uBlock Origin & Manifest V3

                    • Show Notes: https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-995-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:

                    • bitwarden.com/twit
                    • Melissa.com/twit
                    • threatlocker.com for Security Now
                    • flashpoint.io

                      • 2 hr 36 min
                    • SN 994: Recall's Re-Rollout - Domain Security, Tor + Tails, VLC Update
                    • The Linux remote code execution flaw
                    • The CRUCIAL importance of Domain Control Security
                    • Roskomnadzor strikes a discordant note
                    • VLC gets a security update
                    • Tor and Tails Merge
                    • Telegram changes its long-standing "zero cooperation" policy
                    • Enshittification
                    • Bobiverse book 5
                    • Windows 10 notifications
                    • Experian woes
                    • Nuevomailer
                    • SpinRite
                    • Peter F. Hamilton
                    • Recall's Re-Rollout

                      • Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-994-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:

                      • vanta.com/SECURITYNOW
                      • bitwarden.com/twit
                      • joindeleteme.com/twit promo code TWIT
                      • threatlocker.com for Security Now

                        • 2 hr 17 min

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