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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2025-03-25 | The dangers of doing things you don't understand.Espressif responds to the claims of an ESP32 backdoor.A widely leveraged mistake Microsoft stubbornly refuses to correct.A disturbingly simple remote takeover of Apache Tomcat servers.A 10/10 vulnerabili... |
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2025-03-18 |
Is YOUR System Vulnerable to RowHammer? - Telegram's Crypto, Twitter Outage, FBI Warning 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... |
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2025-03-11 |
The Bluetooth Backdoor - North Korean Texans, Apple Pushes Back 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.Appl... |
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2025-03-04 |
Spatial-Domain Wireless Jamming - Firefox Privacy Policy, Signal Leaving Sweden? 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.Mo... |
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2025-02-25 |
FREEDOM Administration Login - Apple's UK Privacy Showdown, $1.5 Billion Crypto Heist 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) vulne... |
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2025-02-18 |
Chrome Web Store is a mess - Apple Encryption in the UK, Texas Vs. DeepSeek 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 h... |
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2025-02-11 |
Hiding School Cyberattacks - SparkCat, Decrypting ADP, AI Fuzzing 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 ... |
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2025-02-04 |
Jailbreaking AI - Deepseek, "ROUTERS" Act, Zyxel Vulnerability 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 ho... |
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2025-01-28 | 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 ... |
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2025-01-21 |
Attacking TOTP - Force-Installed Outlook, DJI Firmware Update 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 enfor... |
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