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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 […]

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 […]

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: […]

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) […]

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

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. […]

Why was DeepSeek banned by Italian authorities? What internal proprietary DeepSeek data was found online? What is "DeepSeek" anyway? Why do we care, and what does it mean? Did Microsoft just make OpenAI's strong model available for free? Google explains how generative AI can be and is being misused. An actively exploited and unpatched Zyxel router vulnerability. The new US "ROUTERS" Act. Is pirate-site blocking legislation justified or is it censorship? Russia's blocked website count tops 400,000. Microsoft adds "scareware" warnings to Edge. Bitwarden improves account security. What's still my favorite disk imaging tool? And let's take a close look […]

eM Client CAN be purchased outright. An astonishing 5-year-old typo in MasterCard's DNS. An unwelcome surprise received by 18,459 low-level hackers. DDoS attacks continue growing, seemingly without any end in sight. Let's Encrypt clarifies their plans for 6-day "we barely knew you" certificates. SpinRite uncovers a bad brand new 8TB drive. Listener feedback about TOTP, Syncthing and UDP hole punching, email spam, ValiDrive speed, AI neural nets, DJI geofencing, and advertising in the "New" Outlook. A look into the tradeoffs required to obtain privacy for our DNS lookups Show Notes – https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1010-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or […]