SN 1016: The Bluetooth Backdoor - North Korean Texans, Apple Pushes Back


Mar 11 2025 176 mins   151

  • 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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