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10 episodes

6 days ago

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 / 21:30 UTC.

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SN 1051: Amazon sues Perplexity - Nevada's Ransomware Comeback

Amazon is taking Perplexity AI to court over its agentic browser that shops on your behalf, raising urgent questions about who controls your online buying experience when bots do the heavy lifting.

FFmpeg teaching assembly language for performance.
The state of Nevada recovers after not paying ransom.
A "rounding error" nets a clever attacker $128 million.
Why would Chrome decide to start form-filling driver's licenses.
The UK's six major telecom providers to block number spoofing.
XSLT support being removed from browsers. Will anyone notice.
Firefox introduced paid support options for organizations.
Russia continues to fight against non-Russian Internet.
Google acquires another Internet security company (Wiz).
The EU to finally fix their cookie permission mistake.
More countries drop Microsoft office for open choices.
More countries question and examine Chinese made buses.
Microsoft discovers some information leakage from LLMs.
What does Amazon's lawsuit against Perplexity's agents mean for next-generation browsers

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1051-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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6 days ago

2 hours 44 minutes 3 seconds

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SN 1050: Here Come the AI Browsers - Scareware Blockers

AI-powered web browsers are hitting the scene fast, but Steve and Leo unpack why these smart assistants could usher in an era of security chaos most users aren't ready for. Brace yourself for the wild risks, real-world scams, and the privacy questions no one else is asking.

Secret radios discovered in Chinese-made busses.
Edge & Chrome introduce LLM-based "scareware" blocking.
A perfect example of what scareware blocking hopes to prevent.
Aardvark: OpenAI's new vulnerability scanner for code.
Italy to require age verification from 48 specific sites.
Russia to require the use of only Russian software within Russia.
Russia further clamping down on non-MAX Telegram and WhatsApp messaging.
187 new malicious NPM packages. Could AI help with that?
BadCandy malware has infiltrated Australian Cisco routers.
Github's 2025 report with the dominance of TypeScript.
Windows 11 gets new extra-secure Admin Protection feature.
A bunch of interesting feedback and listener thoughts.
And why the new AI-driven web browsers may be bringing a whole new world of hurt

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1050-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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1 week ago

3 hours 20 minutes 21 seconds

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SN 1049: DNS Cache Poisoning Returns - Ransomware Payments Plummet

Just when you thought DNS cache poisoning was a thing of the past, Steve and Leo reveal why this 17-year-old bug is making a dramatic comeback—and why most DNS resolvers still can't manage high-quality random numbers after all this time.

The unsuspected sucking power of a Linux-based robot vacuum.
Russia to follow China's vulnerability reporting laws.
A pair of Scattered Spider UK teen hackers arrested.
Facebook,Instagram and TikTok violating the EU's DSA.
Microsoft Teams bringing user WiFi tracking bypolicy.
You backed up. That's great. Did you test that backup?
Coveware reports all-time lowransomware payment rate.
Ransomware negotiator reports how the bad guys get in.
Lots of listener thoughts and feedback about NIST passwords.
And against all reason and begging credulity, it seems we still haven't managed to put high-quality random number generators into our DNS resolvers.

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1049-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2 weeks ago

2 hours 55 minutes 51 seconds

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SN 1048: Mic-E-Mouse - AWS Goes Down Hard

Think your mouse is harmless? Steve and Leo uncover how modern optical mice might be secretly "listening" in, and reveal why satellite data pouring down on us is almost entirely unsecured.

The long awaited lawsuit to block Texas SB2420.
Embattled Texas SB2420 also impacts Google Play.
At long last, NIST modernizes their password policy.
Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters demise was exaggerated.
China claims that the NSA has been hacking them.
Half of all geosynchronous satellite traffic is unencrypted.
The AWS outage highlights the rising risk of Internet monoculture.
A terrific collection of listener feedback and...
Could your PC's mousehave much bigger ears than you know?

https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1048-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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3 weeks ago

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SN 1047: RediShell's CVSS 10.0 - The Rise of Mega Botnets

Texas is on the brink of forcing Apple and Google to overhaul app downloads with strict age verification laws—are tech giants ready, or is your privacy about to get caught in the crossfire?

The EU aborted their Chat Control vote knowing it would fail.
Salesforce says it's not going to pay; customer data is released.
Hackers claim Discord breach netted 70,000 government IDs.
Microsoft to move Github to Azure. What could possibly go wrong.
New California law allows universal data sharing opt-out.
OpenAI reports that it's blocking foreign abuse. Who cares.
IE Mode refuses to die, so Microsoft is burying it deeper.
The massive mess created by Texas legislation SB2420.
The BreachForums website gets a makeover.
100,000 strong global botnet attacking U.S. RDP services.
UI experts weigh in on Apple's iOS 26 user-interface.
330,000 publicly exposed REDIS servers are RCE-vulnerable

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1047-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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1 month ago

2 hours 32 minutes 7 seconds

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SN 1046: Google's Developer Registration Decree - The End of Free Android Apps?

Google's new demand for developer registration could spell the end for open-source app stores, while Europe's controversial chat control vote threatens privacy for everyone—Steve and Leo break down what's at stake for devs and users alike.

Qantas says no one can releak their stolen data.
Brave's usage is up. But is it really 3 times faster.
Next Tuesday the EU votes on "Chat Control".
Microsoft formally launches a "Security Store".
Outlook moves to block JavaScript in SVG's.
A new release of Chrome.
Gmail will no longer pull external email via POP.
Googe Drive starts blocking ransomware encryptions.
The UK issues another order to Apple.
Researchers create a "Battering RAM" attack device.
HackerOne's significant bug bounty payouts.
The Imgur service goes dark across the UK. Guess why.
The Netherlands plans to say NO to "Chat Control."
Discord was breached and government IDs leaked.
Salesforce says it's not another new breach.
Signal introduces a new post-quantum ratchet.
Your motherboard MIGHT support TPM 2.0.
Google to force Android app devs to register and pay

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1046-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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1 month ago

2 hours 31 minutes 21 seconds

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SN 1045: News and Listener Views - 2.3 Million Cisco Devices Exposed

Cisco's routers just exposed more than two million networks thanks to a "security optional" SNMP setup that's being actively exploited—Steve and Leo break down why this is a worst-case scenario for the industry and how easily it could have been avoided.

Gmail's spam filtering false-positive spree.
iOS 26's Safari randomizes its fingerprint by default.
Cisco's SNMP stands for "Security Not My Problem".
Windows' "stuck" Extended Security Updates (ESU).
Europe complains, gets 1-year of ESU with no strings.
Where to get $6 TLS certs (really) while they last.
The lessons to learn from Jaguar Land Rover's mess.
The NEON app: get paid to have your voice recorded.
Bluesky's age verification, now coming to Ohio.
What is "Kids Web Services" for age verification.
More than 10K Ollama instances publicly exposed.
GRC's DNS Benchmark reaches "release candidate"

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1045-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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1 month ago

2 hours 49 minutes 39 seconds

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SN 1044: The EU's Online Age Verification - Consumer Reports vs. Microsoft

Consumer Reports on Windows 10 updates.
Waste (not fraud or abuse) within DoD Cyberoperations.
China's DeepSeek produces deliberately flawed code.
WebAssembly v3.0 officially released.
Firefox v143 updates and new features.
Firefox for Android now offers DoH.
A nearly terminal flaw in Microsoft's Entra ID.
Chrome hits its 6th 0-day this year. Emergency update.
DRAM (now DDR5) still vulnerable to RowHammer.
SAMSUNG kitchen refrigerators begin showing ads.
China says no to NVIDIA.
300 more (new) NPM maliciouspackages found and removed.
The EU is already testing proper online age verification.

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1044-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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1 month ago

Security Now (Video)

SN 1043: Memory Integrity Enforcement - Crypto ATM Scam Epidemic

Apple just rewrote the rules of device security with a chip-level upgrade that could wipe out most iPhone vulnerabilities overnight. Find out how "memory integrity enforcement" aims to make exploits a thing of the past—and why it took half a decade to pull off.

Are Bitcoin ATMs anything more than scamming terminals.
Ransomware hits the Uvalde school district and Jaguar.
Did "Scattered LapSus Hunters" just throw in the towel.
Germany, for one, to vote "no" on Chat Control.
Russia's new MAX messenger has startup troubles.
Samsung follows Apple's WhatsApp patch chain.
Shocker: UK school hacks are mostly by students.
HackerOne was hacked.
Connected washing machines in Amsterdam hacked.
DDoS breaks another record.
Bluesky to implement conditional age verification.
Enforcement actions for Global Privacy Control.
Might Apple have finally beaten vulnerabilities

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1043-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2 months ago

2 hours 51 minutes 21 seconds

Security Now (Video)

SN 1042: Letters of Marque - 1.1.1.1 Certificate Snafu

Is the U.S. on the verge of legalizing "hack back" missions, turning private companies into sanctioned cyber warriors? Steve and Leo unpack Google's plan for a cyber disruption unit and why the lines between defense and digital retaliation are suddenly blurring.

My experience with 'X' vs email.
Google TIG blackmailed to fire two security researchers.
1.1.1.1 DNS TLS certificate mis-issued.
Artists blackmailed with threats of training AI on their art.
Firefox extended end-of-life for Windows 7 to next March.
Is the renewal of cybersecurity info sharing coming soon.
Should security analysis be censored due to vibe-coding.
UK versus Apple may not be settled after all.
Another very serious supply chain attack.
Can the software supply-chain ever be trustworthy.
Why did BYTE Magazine die.
What happens if Google and others go on the attack

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1042-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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2 months ago