Security Now (Audio)

Security Now (Audio)

Cybersecurity guru Steve Gibson joins Leo Laporte every Tuesday. Steve and Leo break down the latest cybercrime and hacking stories, offering a deep understanding of what's happening and how to protect yourself and your business. Security Now is a must listen for security professionals every week. Records live every Tuesday at 4:30pm Eastern / 1:30pm Pacific / 20:30 UTC.

Episodes

May 6, 2025 166 mins
  • Microsoft to officially abandon passwords and support their deletion.
  • Meta's RayBan smart glasses weaken their privacy terms.
  • 30% of Microsoft code is now being written by AI.
  • Google says prying Chrome from it will damage its security.
  • Nearly 1,000 six-year-old eCommerce backdoors spring to life.
  • eM Client moves to version 10.3
  • A bunch of terrific listener feedback creates talking points.
  • A little-known, insecure mess...
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  • Why did a mysterious empty "inetpub" directory appear after April's Patch Tuesday?
  • And what new Windows Update crashing hack did this also create?
  • North Korea is now creating fake US companies to lure would-be employees.
  • The "Inception" attack subverts all GPT conversational AIs.
  • New information about data loss in unpowered SSD mass storage.
  • Lots of terrific feedback from our listeners.
  • How malware has taken to hiding ...
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  • Enabling Firefox's Tab Grouping.
  • Recalled Recall Re-Rolls out.
  • The crucial CVE program nearly died. It's been given new life.
  • China confesses to hacking the US (blames our stance on Taiwan).
  • CISA says what Oracle still refuses to.
  • Brute force attacks on the (rapid) rise.
  • An AI/ML Python package rates a 9.8 (again!)
  • The CA/Browser forum passed short-life certs. :(
  • A wonderful crosswalk hack hits Silicon Valley.
  • Andro...
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  • Android to get "Lockdown Mode".
  • What's in the new editions of Chrome and Firefox?
  • Why did Apple silently re-enable automatic updates?
  • My new iPhone 16, Chinese tariffs and electronics.
  • Dynamic "hotpatching" coming to Win11 Enterprise & Edu.
  • Why is it so difficult for Oracle to fess up?
  • Another multi-year breach inside US Treasury.
  • An Apple -vs- the UK update.
  • "Thundermail" (Can't someone come up with a better nam...
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  • Canon printer driver vulnerabilities enable Windows kernel exploitation.
  • Astonishing cyber-security awareness from a household appliance manufacturer.
  • France tries to hook 2.5 million school children with a Phishing test.
  • Wordpress added an abuse prone feature in 2022. Guess what happened?
  • Oracle? Is there something you'd like to tell us?
  • Utah's governor just signed the App Store Accountability Act. Now what?
  • AI bots h...
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  • 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 M...
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  • 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 encrypt...
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  • 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.
  • ...
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  • 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 breac...
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  • 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 lang...
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