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Expert Steve Gibson discusses the current threats, risks, and tech breaches everyone is facing in security today.

2 hours 17 minutes

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

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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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13 November 2024, 2:18 am
1 hour 53 minutes

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

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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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6 November 2024, 2:21 am
2 hours 53 minutes

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

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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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30 October 2024, 2:33 am
2 hours 18 minutes

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

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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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23 October 2024, 1:49 am
2 hours 32 minutes

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

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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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16 October 2024, 2:28 am
2 hours 35 minutes

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

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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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9 October 2024, 2:00 am
2 hours 16 minutes

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

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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 October 2024, 2:03 am
2 hours 27 minutes

SN 993: Kaspersky exits the U.S. - Exploding Pagers, Passkeys in Chrome
- The case of the exploding pagers and walkie-talkies
- "Ford seeks patent for tech that listens to driver conversations to serve ads"
- Another large chunk of personal data exposed
- Passkeys takes a big step forward: Now supported by Chrome
- A nascent 9.9 Linux Unauthenticated RCE?
- Freezing Credit
- Credit Bureaus
- Drobo 5N
- SN email labeled as spam
- Public Wi-fi saftey
- SN for Certs
- Windows Defender
- Kaspersky exits the U.S.
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-993-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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25 September 2024, 2:51 am
2 hours 23 minutes

SN 992: Password Manager Injection Attacks - Aging Media, Naval Starlink, adam:ONE
- Windows Endpoint Security Ecosystem Summit
- Aging storage media does NOT last forever
- How Navy chiefs conspired to get themselves illegal warship Wi-Fi
- adam:ONE named the #1 best Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solution
- AI Talk
- Password Manager Injection Attacks
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-992-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Mikah Sargent

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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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18 September 2024, 2:29 am
2 hours 19 minutes

SN 991: RAMBO - Cloned YubiKeys, Telegram vs. Signal, French Elevators, Unix Time
- Offer to uninstall Recall was a bug, not a feature
- YubiKeys can be cloned
- Miscellany
- Is WhatsApp secure?
- Telegram vs Signal
- French elevators
- Freezing your credit
- The Quiet Canine
- Unix time
- Bobiverse book 5
- Exodus: The Achemedes Engine
- Watching SpinRite
- RAMBO
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-991-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Mikah Sargent

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.

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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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11 September 2024, 2:16 am
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