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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 protect yourself and your business. Security Now is a must listen for security professionals every week.

Records live every Tuesday at 4:30pm Eastern / 1:30pm Pacific / 20:30 UTC.

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• 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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SN 1012: Hiding School Cyberattacks - SparkCat, Decrypting ADP, AI Fuzzing

• 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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SN 1013: The Chrome Web Store is a mess - Apple Encryption in the UK, Texas Vs. DeepSeek

• 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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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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SN 1014: FREEDOM Administration Login - Apple's UK Privacy Showdown, $1.5 Billion Crypto Heist

• 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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SN 1015: Spatial-Domain Wireless Jamming - Firefox Privacy Policy, Signal Leaving Sweden?

• 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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SN 1016: The Bluetooth Backdoor - North Korean Texans, Apple Pushes Back

• 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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SN 1017: Is YOUR System Vulnerable to RowHammer? - Telegram's Crypto, Twitter Outage, FBI Warning

• 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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SN 1018: The Quantum Threat - ESP32 Backdoor Update, RCS E2EE

• 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
 

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

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SN 1019: EU OS - Troy Hunt Phished, Ransomware List, InControl

• 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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SN 1020: Multi-Perspective Issuance Corroboration - IoT Done Right, France Phishes, Gmails E2EE

• 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.
 

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SN 1021: Device Bound Session Credentials - Hotpatching in Win 11, Apple vs. UK

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