Security Now 1016: The Bluetooth Backdoor

• 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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