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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2025-01-14 | 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... |
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2025-01-07 | The consequences of Internet content restriction.The measured risks of 3rd-party browser extensions.The consequences of SonicWall's unpatched 9.8 firewall severity.The incredible number of still-unencrypted email servers.SonicWall vulnerability patchin... |
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2024-12-23 |
Best of 2024 - Apple's Secret Backdoor, CrowdStrike Catastrophe, Recall's Privacy Nightmare Leo revisits some of the year's top Security Now segments of 2024.956. Apple's Hardware Backdoor: Steve reflects on the previous week's 'The Mystery of CVE-2023-38606' deep-dive. Did Apple deliberately designed a secure backdoor?960. Unforeseen Consequ... |
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2024-12-17 |
6-Day Certificates? Why? - Android Anti-Tracking, MFA lLogin Bypass, BIMI Is AI the Wizard of Oz? Or is it more?Microsoft's long standing effective MFA login bypass.Is TPM 2.0 not required after all for Windows 11?Meet 14 North Korean IT workers who made $88 million from the West.Android updates its Bluetooth tracking with a... |
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2024-12-10 |
A Chat with GPT - China's Telecom Hack, Microsoft Activation Cracked, Coding with ChatGPT 4o This week, Steve and Leo discuss the recent 'Salt Typhoon' hack of U.S. telecom providers by China, TPM 2.0 requirement for Windows 11, Microsoft's newly hacked Windows activation system, Apple patenting AI facial and body recognition, and much more. S... |
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2024-12-03 | Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte discuss Microsoft's clarification about AI training data usage, a fascinating breakthrough in understanding autonomous vehicle vulnerabilities, and an urgent call for help from the Tor Network. The show culminates in an in-... |
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2024-11-26 |
Disconnected Experiences - 'Nearest Neighbor' Attack, Repo Swatting, the Return of Recall What's the new "nearest neighbor" attack and how do you defend against it?Let's Encrypt just turned 10. What changes has it wrought?Now the Coast Guard is worried about Chinese built ship-to-shore cranes.Pakistan becomes the first country to block Blue... |
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2024-11-19 |
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) - Gmail Temp Addresses, Russia's Internet Off Switch How Microsoft lured the US Government into a far deeper and expensive dependency upon its cybersecurity solutions.Gmail to offer native throwaway email aliases like Apple and Mozilla.Russia to ban several additional hosting companies and give its big I... |
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2024-11-12 | Did Bitwarden go closed-source?The rights of German security researchers are clarified.Australia to impose age limits on social media.Free Windows Server 2025 anyone?UAC wasn't getting in the way enough, so they're fixing that."From Russia with fines" ... |
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2024-11-05 |
AI Vulnerability Discovery - RT's AI TV Hosts, Windows 10 Updates Google's record-breaking fine by Russia. (How many 0's is that?)RT's editor-in-chief admits that their TV hosts are AI-generated.Windows 10 security updates set to end next October... or are they?When a good Chrome extension goes bad.Windows .RDP launc... |
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