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How Salt Typhoon Gets In

3 days ago | twit.tv | Steve Gibson |Leo Laporte

China's Salt Typhoon claims another victim (or two). State healthcare portals are tracking and leaking. No kidding. Apple adopts FIDO's Passkeys and other credentials transport. Facebook gets Passkey logon. TikTok continues ticking for at least another 90 days. Canadian telco admits they were infiltrated by Salt Typhoon. Microsoft to remove unwanted (and hopefully unneeded) hardware drivers. The Austrian government legislates court-warranted message decryption.
Internet Foreground Radiation

1 week ago | twit.tv | Steve Gibson |Leo Laporte

An exploited iOS iMessage vulnerability Apple denies? The NPM repository is under siege with no end in sight. Were Comcast and Digital Realty compromised? Don't ask them. Matthew Green agrees: XChat does not offer true security. We may know how Russia is convicting Telegram users. Microsoft finally decides to block two insane Outlook file types. 40,000 openly available video camera are online. Who owns them? Running SpinRite on encrypted drives.
The Illusion of Thinking

2 weeks ago | twit.tv | Steve Gibson |Leo Laporte

In memoriam: Bill AtkinsonMeta native apps & JavaScript collude for a localhost local mess. The EU rolls out its own DNS4EU filtered DNS service. Ukraine DDoS's Russia's Railway DNS ... and... so what? The Linux Foundation creates an alternative Wordpress package manager. Court tells OpenAI it must NOT delete ANYONE's chats. Period! :(A CVSS 10.0 in Erlang/OTP's SSH library. Can Russia intercept Telegram? Perhaps. Spain's ISPs mistakenly block Google sites. Reddit sues Anthropic.
AI Vulnerability Hunting

3 weeks ago | twit.tv | Steve Gibson |Leo Laporte

Pwn2Own 2025, Berlin results. PayPal seeks a "newly registered domains" patent. An expert iOS jailbreak developer gives up. The rising abuse of SVG images, via JavaScript. Interesting feedback from our listeners. Four classic science fiction movies not to miss. How OpenAI's o3 model discovered a 0-day in the Linux kernelShow Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1028-Notes.pdfDownload or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.
Artificial Intelligence

1 month ago | twit.tv | Steve Gibson |Leo Laporte

What the status of Encrypted Client Hello (ECH)? What radio technology would be best for remote inverter shutdown? Some DNS providers already block newly listed domains. Knowing when not to click a link can take true understanding. Why can losing a small portion of a power grid bring the rest down? Where are we in the "AI Hype Cycle" and is this the first? Speaking of hype: An AI system resorted to blackmail? Why are we so quick to imbue AI with awareness?
Rogue Comms Tech Found in US Power Grid

1 month ago | twit.tv | Steve Gibson |Leo Laporte

Chrome to actively refuse admin privileges. Android Messenger is getting manual key verification. Pwn2Own to add AI "pwning" as in-scope attack targets. AI has already been found to be replicating. Microsoft not killing off Office on Win10 after October. 23andMe's asset purchaser revealed. Many fun talking points thanks to our listeners. Steve's review of "Andor", season 2.
Secure Conversation Records Retention

1 month ago | twit.tv | Steve Gibson |Leo Laporte

The state of Virginia passes an age-restriction law that has no chance. New Zealand also tries something similar, citing Australia's lead. A nasty Python package for Discord survived 3 years and 11K downloads. The FBI says it's a good idea to discard end-of-life consumer routers. What's in WhatsApp? Finding out was neither easy nor certain. The UK's Cyber Centre says AI promises to make things much worse.
Don’t Blame Signal

1 month ago | twit.tv | Steve Gibson |Leo Laporte

Microsoft to officially abandon passwords and support their deletion. Meta's RayBan smart glasses weaken their privacy terms. 30% of Microsoft code is now being written by AI. Google says prying Chrome from it will damage its security. Nearly 1,000 six-year-old eCommerce backdoors spring to life. eM Client moves to version 10.3A bunch of terrific listener feedback creates talking points. A little-known, insecure message archiving service comes to light.
Preventing Windows Sandbox Abuse

1 month ago | twit.tv | Steve Gibson |Leo Laporte

Why did a mysterious empty "inetpub" directory appear after April's Patch Tuesday? And what new Windows Update crashing hack did this also create? North Korea is now creating fake US companies to lure would-be employees. The "Inception" attack subverts all GPT conversational AIs.New information about data loss in unpowered SSD mass storage. Lots of terrific feedback from our listeners.
The Windows Sandbox

2 months ago | twit.tv | Steve Gibson |Leo Laporte

Enabling Firefox's Tab Grouping. Recalled Recall Re-Rolls out. The crucial CVE program nearly died. It's been given new life. China confesses to hacking the US (blames our stance on Taiwan). CISA says what Oracle still refuses to. Brute force attacks on the (rapid) rise. An AI/ML Python package rates a 9.8 (again!)The CA/Browser forum passed short-life certs. :(A wonderful crosswalk hack hits Silicon Valley. Android to add force restarting ahead of schedule. Maybe. The EFF is never happy.