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

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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