Security Now 1031: How Salt Typhoon Gets In

• 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.
• I (Steve) finally get full clarity on what today's "AI" means.
• A deep dive into the Salt Typhoon's operation and how they got in

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1031-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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