SN 1017: Is YOUR System Vulnerable to RowHammer? - Telegram's Crypto, Twitter Outage, FBI Warning


Mar 18 2025 173 mins   145

  • 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 of great listener feedback, some Sci-Fi content reviews and...

  • A new tool allows YOU to test YOUR PCs for their RowHammer susceptibility

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1017-Notes.pdf


Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte


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