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Steve Gibson, the man who coined the term spyware and created the first anti-spyware program, creator of SpinRite and ShieldsUP, discusses the hot topics in security today with Leo Laporte.
Records live every Tuesday at 4:30pm Eastern / 1:30pm Pacific / 20:30 UTC.
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Picture of the Week.
HP = "Huge Pile"
The ".ZIP" TLD — What could possibly go wrong?
PyPI gets more serious about security AND privacy.
"No logs saved anywhere"???
Twitter in the EU?
Bitwarden's support for Passkeys.
A €1.2 billion fine will grab your attention.
Editing WhatsApp messages.
A new Google Bug Bounty.
SpinRite.
Brave's Brilliant Off the Record Request.
Show Notes: https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-925-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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Picture of the Week.
Tracker Follow-Up.
Automatic IoT device updating.
HP 9020e - error code 83C0000B.
Section 230 Stands.
The KeePass Vulnerability.
Apple joins Samsung, Amazon and Verizon in banning ChatGPT.
Google's Privacy Sandbox moves forward.
The FBI heavily misused FISA powers.
Supply Chain Nightmare.
SpinRite.
VCaaS – Voice Cloning as a Service.
Show Notes: https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-924-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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Picture of the Week.
SpinRite.
Location Tracker Behavior.
Formal definitions from the specification.
Bluetooth LE devices have MAC addresses and therein lies a problem.
All devices are serialized.
And now, that "pairing registry".
Privacy considerations.
Show Notes: https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-923-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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Picture of the Week.
Google & Passkeys.
TP-Link routers DO auto-update.
US Marshals Service: Where's the backup??
T-Mobile keeps getting breached.
Chrome: No more LOCK icon.
Apple's new "Rapid Security Response" system.
Elon Musk, making friends wherever he goes...
A quick Mastodon aside.
Here come the fake AI-generated "news" sites.
Russia to replace "American" TCP/IP with "Russian Internet".
Vint Serf's 3 mistakes.
Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers.
Show Notes: https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-922-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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Picture of the Week.
The Encryption Debate.
Age does matter...
Age Verification.
WhatsApp: Rather be blocked in UK than weaken security.
Exposing Side-Channel Monitoring.
Closing the Loop.
A new UDP reflection attack vector.
Google Authenticator Updated.
Does Israel use NSO Group commercial spyware?
A Russian OS?
TP-Link routers compromised.
A pre-release security audit.
Another Intel side-channel attack.
Windows users: Don't remove cURL!
AI comes to VirusTotal.
Show Notes https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-921-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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Picture of the Week.
Lockdown Mode seen succeeding.
A growing black market for ChatGPT accounts.
Decommissioned Corporate Routers Leak Secrets.
Jaguar Tooth: Cisco router vulnerabilities.
Security Research Legal Defense Fund.
A quick Firefox fix.
Kubernetes security audit.
Google Chrome zero-day.
An End-to-End Encryption Proposal.
Show Notes https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-920-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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Picture of the Week.
Patch Tuesday Review.
Risky Business News.
Google Assured Open Source Software.
WhatsApp Improvements.
Bad Security? Go to jail!
Forced Entry.
Show Notes https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-919-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Jason Howell
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Picture of the Week.
Microsoft and Fortra go on the offensive.
Can ChatGPT keep a secret?
Apple updates their OS's.
Wordpress under attack... again.
Mozilla's Site Breach Monitor.
Another ChatGPT investigation.
Samsung handsets reaching EoL.
Less access for loan apps.
The right to be forgotten.
SpinRite.
A Dangerous Interpretation.
Show Notes: https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-918-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Jason Howell
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Picture of the Week
So... Not an attack, then?
AI Overlord Hysteria
Italy says NO to ChatGPT
It's illegal... How much will that be?
The U.S. FDA & medical device security
Hack the Pentagon
Firefox 3dr-party DLL check-up
Microsoft's Extortion?
The Silver Ships
Zombie Software
Show Notes: https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-917-notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Ant Pruitt
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Picture of the Week.
Synacktiv wins this year's CanSecWest Pwn2Own
GitHub: Mistakes happen
DDoS for Hire. . .Or Not
144,000 malicious packages published
No iPhones For Russian Presidential Staff
I NUIT
Edge Gets Crypto
Microsoft's Email Extortion
Show Notes: https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-916-notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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Picture of the Week.
Multiple Exploitable Samsung 0-Days.
A good idea for NPM.
The TikTok Tick Tock.
Google pushes for 90-day TLS certificate life.
CHESS is safe.
CISA has begun scanning!
Flying Trojan Horses.
Show Notes: https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-915-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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Picture of the Week.
Another Malicious Chrome Extension.
Germany to join the Huawei & ZTE ban.
Putting "phishing" into perspective.
The Polynonce attack.
Plex's RCE now in CISA's KEV.
Sci-Fi: Andor.
Sony Sues Quad9.
Show Notes: https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-914-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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Picture of the Week.
DDoS'ing Fosstodon.
DDoS for Hire takedowns.
TikTok Insanity.
Illegal Warrantless Surveillance.
Strategic Objective 3.3.
GitHub Secret Scanning.
CISA's Covert Red-Team.
What's left?
What's old is new again.
TCG TPM vulnerabilities.
WordPress "All In One SEO".
Russia fines Wikipedia.
A Fowl Incident.
Show Notes: https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-913-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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Picture of the Week.
Windows 11? ... anyone?
As Plain as Ever.
Edge's new built-in VPN?
LastPass Incident Update.
Signal says NO to the UK.
More PyPI troubles.
The QNAP bug bounty program.
SpinRite.
The NSA @ Home.
Show Notes: https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-912-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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GoneDaddy, Section 230, NPM malware, Hyundai Kia mess, Meta Verified
Picture of the Week.
GoneDaddy.
Section 230.
No Blue, No SMS-based 2FA.
Bitwarden gets Argon.
"Meta Verified".
Emsisoft Fake Code Signing.
Attacks breaking records.
More Mirai.
NPM malware.
Patch Tuesday.
Samsung announces "Message Guard".
The Hyundai & Kia mess.
A Clever Regurgitator.
Show Notes https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-911-notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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Picture of the Week
ESXiArgs follow-up
ChatGPT's Malicious Use
Google Security Key Giveaway
Brave goes HTTPS-by-default
1Password Makes Another Passkeys Move
Russian Patriotic Hackers
Amazon to FINALLY Secure Its AWS S3 Instances
More Anti-Chinese Camera Removals
Microsoft to embed Adobe Acrobat PDF reader into Edge
Password Exhaustion
One Time Passowrd OTPAuth
Password Exhaustion
Ascon
Show Notes https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-910-notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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Picture of the Week.
The European Union's Internet Surveillance Proposal.
30,000 patient records online?
.DEV is always HTTPS!
Google changes Chrome's release strategy.
Russia shoots the messenger.
A fool and his Crypto...
QNAP is back.
CVSS severity discrepancy.
Closing the Loop.
How ESXi Fell.
Show Notes: https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-909-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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Android to start blocking old and unsafe apps.
Microsoft to block Internet sourced Excel add-ins.
An example of saying "no" even when it may hurt.
Hacked Wormhole funds on the move.
Kevin Rose Hacked.
Facebook will be moving more users into E2EE.
iOS 6.3 and FIDO.
Scan thy Citizenry.
The Hive ransomware organization takedown.
Errata.
Closing the Loop.
SpinRite.
Data Operand Independent Timing.
Show Notes: https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-908-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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Picture of the Week.
PayPal Credential Stuffing.
iOS 16.3 : Cloud encryption for all.
InfoSecurity Magazine: "ChatGPT Creates Polymorphic Malware".
CheckPoint Research: OPWNAI : Cybercriminals Starting to Use ChatGPT.
"Meta" fined for the third time.
Bitwarden acquires "Passwordless.dev".
Closing the Loop.
SpinRite.
Credential Reuse.
Show Notes: https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-907-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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Picture of the Week
About Password Iterations
EBC or CB
Norton Lifelock Troubles
Chrome Follows Microsoft and Firefox
Chromium is Beginning to Rust
BYOVD and Windows Defender Failures
Closing the Loop (feedback)
The Rule of Two
Show notes: https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-906-notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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Bester Security Podcast IMHO
I really love listening to your podcasts and I love how enthusiastic Steve gets over some news and his voice is really cute 😍 I just wish you guys would give a short definitions of some acronyms or techniques you're talking about, so I won't need to pause and Google, specially when the room is dark 😀
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Listen to this podcast, if you want to be entertained and updated on important Cybersecurity news
I love you Steve but PISS OFF on the vaccine proof. not happening. you didn't do voting did you ?
Seagate label: Koolhovenlaan is a street in the city of Tilburg, the Netherlands
I'm offended by the ignorance displayed in the thumbnail with the masq. now I'm wondering how ignorant the rest of the information is installing a petry dish in your airway is irresponsible and dangerous.
Evil M(a)IT attack
Tracking is ridiculous and turning off your phone or factory resetting it defeats efforts which are not needed. Deaths while under the treatment of respirators should not be counted as this virus steals iron from the blood, it does not fill your lungs with fluids I am reading from doctors, which is necessary to use a ventilator! They give you paralyzing drugs and if your lungs are dry that machine has a 50% it will kill you, and your body will immediately cremated, nothing for trial lawyers to exhume? Epidemiological experts say this is just another flu, do not let these political hacks kill you as they ignore warnings mitigation efforts prolong the virus? That is why the bat lady from China on day one said try malaria drugs, they open a channel into the virus so zinc or something else can bind instead of oxygen robbing iron stolen from your body? Would you help politicians round up people to put them in killing machines they could blame on a virus? I don't think so. You delay respiratory virus long enough to pump the supply chain and put out a warning to the weak (2 weeks) then let it rip through the population in about 4 weeks it is done with 99% of the people getting a runny nose, that's it. Mass immunity. Drip drip drip drip mitigation efforts prolong the time 80+ year olds (those suspected most at risk) have to hide. A 30 year old vegan is not going to do well if not taking iron supplements and other vitamins, are they? We need common sense, not a dry run of the Chinese social credit scoring system.
stop taking long breakkkkkk
I used to enjoy this show. Now it's become the "I like to insert my politics into everything - Leo" show. Stick to the core subject! Even Steve sounds uncomfortable.
A great tech podcast thanks to Steve Gibson. Leo Laporte lets him speak in depth without getting in the way unlike some of the other TWIT podcasts.
How about Syncthing?
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Another poorly done show discussing constitutional rights. The fifth amendment and right to remain silent is not affected by a judge issuing a warrant. Encryption is a right, and the movie `Breach' and historical events such as WWII demonstrate not all politicians or government employees can be trusted, establishing the need for such protections. This requires we do things like not have open borders, or limit the damage from crime like carry a concealed weapon. No encryption should be considered secure, as even so called heavily reviewed open source programs have existed for years with flaws. But conceptually, the 5th amendment affirms the fourth and adds another layer of protection. This is a serious concept to understand as it requires we label decrypted documents as violations of the fifth amendment, as the act of decryption is compelling a person to testify against one self. Par for course in an age of amnesia by so many public servants? Review of the facebook bug was fake news as Facebook claimed they did not know which users were affected when servers have logs? Steve just shoved that under the carpet? palm face. children photos are not poker cards.
great show. no no no no google. If you want native apps that can read and write files, develop a native app. You can not remove the sandbox, in fact they need to fix Android shared spaces, especially sd cards. If you did try this, it would have to be a folder for each web site sand boxed to no execute, no wildcard or directory tranversal. folder www.google.com pic.jpg doc.pdf no system files no java script sub folder adsense.www.google.com So just like you delete cookies, poof! you can erase folders (they want cookies users can not delete). great show pointing this stuff out. also perms specific to not only web sites but web pages. you may not want softcondomsfakesite.com access to mail.google.com! why am i writing this, are we all that stupid now?
so if steve posts 1 gigabyte video on grc.com he should be forced to host to 4 billion ip addresses if they want it @ $5000 a day or would he want to 'throttle' that? Twisting fcc and doj rules as described in podcast demonstrate steve does not understand legal language. sad.
I like the long format that allows a sense of humor and there is not someone screaming "abandon ship" every five minutes. Steve does a great foundation up approach, and that takes hand holding sometimes. The latest episode with Chrome (I am actually thinking banning that browser on my websites), highlights that auto updates can be more dangerous than traditional malware attacks. The autoupdate pushed malware into systems unkown to the attackers that were clean. Even worse, we dont know if or when malware is rolled back, horrors, if one not paying attention. So something like a password manager, that auto updates itself, could disable certificate protections, phone back to home base, then roll back changes, as even code signing, can be part of the vector for clever attacks. We need out of the box security, and a nice bon fire of all the published document "worse is better". Google is off the rails with subdomains and search bar formatting. None of their business, and created security problems, such as "what am I looking at". Years ago I not only deleted the executible for Google product updates on Windows, but other vendors too. I need to know when updates are done so I can do the backup of the system. Very sloppy practices by tech people who develop code in insecure environments, lack of training, etc. Stop expecting to update products, and dont package the entire C language in your interperters when all I need are simple graphics, text handling, and no object based, or network tools. A web browser should not have any scripting language in my opinion, as people are abusing that system, running up to 120 scripts per page ( especially support pages of Chinese firms)! I would rather have server overhead, then broken trust and crippled networks.