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SN 1019: EU OS - Troy Hunt Phished, Ransomware List, InControl
Kuala Lumpur International Airport says no to a ransom attack, switches to whiteboard.
A tired and jet-lagged Troy Hunt got Phished then listed himself on his own site.
Cloudflare completely pulls the plug on port 80 (HTTP) API access.
Malware is switching to obscure languages to avoid detection. FORTH, anyone?
Password reuse doesn't appear to be dropping. Cloudflare has numbers.
A listener shares his log of malicious Microsoft login attempts. Why no geofencing?
23andMe down for the count (reminder).
A sobering Ransomware attack & victim listing website. Gulp!
"InControl" keeps VR planes aloft.
And the European Union gets serious about a switch to Linux
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1019-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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SN 1018: The Quantum Threat - ESP32 Backdoor Update, RCS E2EE
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 vulnerability affecting some ASUS, ASRock and HPE motherboards.
Google snapped up another cloud security firm but paid a price!
RCS messaging to soon get full end-to-end encryption (done right!).
How did an AI Crypto Chatbot lose $105,000? ...and what is an AI Crypto Chatbot?
Looks like Oracle may take stewardship of TikTok to keep it in-country.
Whoops! 23andMe is sinking — don't let them take your genetics with them!
The White House says "the cyber guys should stay!"
AI project failure rates are on the rise. Anyone surprised?
Listener feedback, and a very interesting update on just how looming is the threat from quantum computing?
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1018-Notes.pdf
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SN 1017: 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, 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
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2:53:50
SN 1016: 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.
Apple pushes back legally against the UK's secret order.
Did someone crack Passkeys?
The UK launches a legal salvo at an innocent security researcher.
The old data breach we witnessed that just keeps on giving.
A bit more Bybit postmortem forensic news.
A lesson to learn from a clever and effective ransomware attack.
And what about that Bluetooth Backdoor discovery everyone is talking about?
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SN 1015: 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.
Mozilla's commitment to Manifest V2 (and the uBlock Origin).
What does the ACM's plea for memory-safe languages mean for developers?
What exactly are memory-safe languages?
Australia joins the Kaspersky ban.
Gmail plans to switch from SMS to QR code authentication.
A SpinRite success and some fun feedback.
An astonishing new technology for targeted radio jamming
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1015-Notes.pdf
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