Security Now (Audio)

Mar 18 2025 10 ep. 169 mins 67.8k
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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 1017: Is YOUR System Vulnerable to RowHammer? - Telegram's Crypto, Twitter Outage, FBI Warning

Mar 18 2025 173 mins  
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 w

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

Mar 11 2025 176 mins  
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 inn

SN 1015: Spatial-Domain Wireless Jamming - Firefox Privacy Policy, Signal Leaving Sweden?

Mar 04 2025 172 mins  
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

SN 1014: FREEDOM Administration Login - Apple's UK Privacy Showdown, $1.5 Billion Crypto Heist

Feb 25 2025 159 mins  
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 th

SN 1013: The Chrome Web Store is a mess - Apple Encryption in the UK, Texas Vs. DeepSeek

Feb 18 2025 151 mins  
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

SN 1012: Hiding School Cyberattacks - SparkCat, Decrypting ADP, AI Fuzzing

Feb 11 2025 161 mins  
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 contai

SN 1011: Jailbreaking AI - Deepseek, "ROUTERS" Act, Zyxel Vulnerability

Feb 04 2025 181 mins  
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

SN 1010: DNS Over TLS - Record DDoS, Hackers Get Hacked

Jan 28 2025 160 mins  
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, Sync

SN 1009: Attacking TOTP - Force-Installed Outlook, DJI Firmware Update

Jan 21 2025 187 mins  
What do we learn from January's record breaking 0-day critical Patch Tuesday? Microsoft to "force-install" a new Outlook into all Windows 10 and 11 desktops? GoDaddy required to get much more serious about its hosting security. More age verification enforcement is coming, including globally. What another instance of a widely exposed management interface teaches us. DJI drone

SN 1008: HOTP and TOTP - SyncThing, Auto-Updates, Sci-Fi Recs

Jan 14 2025 169 mins  
Meta winds down 3rd-party content filtering. Is encryption soon to follow? Taking over abandoned Command & Control server domains (strictly for research purposes only). IoT devices to get the "Cyber Trust Mark" — Will anyone notice or care? "SyncThing" receives a (blessedly infrequent) update. Government email is not using encryption? Really? Email relaying prevents po