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What the status of Encrypted Client Hello (ECH)? What radio technology would be best for remote inverter shutdown? Some DNS providers already block newly listed domains. Knowing when not to click a link can take true understanding. Why can losing a small portion of a power grid bring the rest down? Where are we in the "AI Hype Cycle" and is this the first? Speaking of hype: An AI system resorted to blackmail? Why are we so quick to imbue AI with awareness? ChatGPT's latest o3 model ignored the order to shutdown. Copilot may not be making Windows core code any better. Venice.AI is an unfiltered and unrestrained LLM Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1027-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! what you love and get ad-free shows, a -only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: outsystems.com/twit threatlocker.com for Security Now canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT hoxhunt.com/securitynow 1.com/securitynow

Chrome to actively refuse privileges. Android Messenger is getting manual key verification. Pwn2Own to add AI "pwning" as in-scope attack targets. AI has already been found to be replicating. Microsoft not killing off Office on Win10 after October. 23andMe's asset purchaser revealed. Many fun talking points thanks to our listeners. Steve's review of "Andor", season 2. What's been discovered inside the U.S. power grid Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1026-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! what you love and get ad-free shows, a -only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: bigid.com/securitynow material.security deleteme.com/twit promo code TWIT bitwarden.com/twit drata.com/securitynow

The state of Virginia es an age-restriction law that has no chance. New Zealand also tries something similar, citing Australia's lead. A nasty Python package for Discord survived 3 years and 11K s. The FBI says it's a good idea to discard end-of-life consumer routers. What's in WhatsApp? Finding out was neither easy nor certain. The UK's Cyber Centre says AI promises to make things much worse. A bunch of great from our great listeners, then: Is true end-to-end encryption possible when records must be retained? Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1025-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! what you love and get ad-free shows, a -only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: threatlocker.com for Security Now uscloud.com hoxhunt.com/securitynow canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT

Microsoft to officially abandon s and their deletion. Meta's RayBan smart glasses weaken their privacy . 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 creates talking points. A little-known, insecure message archiving service comes to light. Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-1024-notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! what you love and get ad-free shows, a -only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: bitwarden.com/twit deleteme.com/twit promo code TWIT drata.com/securitynow material.security threatlocker.com/twit

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 from our listeners. How malware has taken to hiding inside the Windows Sandbox and what you can do to stop it Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1023-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! what you love and get ad-free shows, a -only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: legatosecurity.com threatlocker.com for Security Now outsystems.com/twit hoxhunt.com/securitynow

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 ed short-life certs. :( A wonderful crosswalk hack hits Silicon Valley. Android to add force restarting ahead of schedule. Maybe. The EFF is never happy. But especially now, about Florida. Interesting research into ransomware payouts. Windows Sandbox: The amazing gem hidden inside all Windows 10 & 11! Show Notesb - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1022-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! what you love and get ad-free shows, a -only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: deleteme.com/twit promo code TWIT drata.com/securitynow bigid.com/securitynow 1.com/securitynow material.security

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 name?) The (in)Security of Programmable Logic Controllers. When LLM's write code and hallucinate non-existent packages. Wordpress core security and PHP gets an important audit. Device-Bound Session Credentials update session cookie technology Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1021-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! what you love and get ad-free shows, a -only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: expressvpn.com/securitynow vanta.com/SECURITYNOW threatlocker.com for Security Now legatosecurity.com bitwarden.com/twit

Canon printer driver vulnerabilities enable Windows kernel exploitation. Astonishing cyber-security awareness from a household appliance manufacturer. 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 ability Act. Now what? AI bots hungry for new data are DDoSing FOSS projects. No Microsoft ? No Microsoft Windows 11. Gmail claims it now offers E2EE. It kinda sorta does. Somewhat. A dreaded CVSS 10.0 was discovered in Apache Parquet. A bunch of terrific listener . What's Multi-Perspective Issuance Corroboration and why must all certificate authorities now do it? Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1020-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! what you love and get ad-free shows, a -only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: material.security threatlocker.com for Security Now canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT deleteme.com/twit promo code TWIT bitwarden.com/twit

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? reuse doesn't appear to be dropping. Cloudflare has numbers. A listener shares his log of malicious Microsoft 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 or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! what you love and get ad-free shows, a -only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: drata.com/securitynow outsystems.com/twit bitwarden.com/twit threatlocker.com for Security Now legatosecurity.com

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 , 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 Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! what you love and get ad-free shows, a -only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: zscaler.com/security legatosecurity.com deleteme.com/twit promo code TWIT

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 , 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 or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! what you love and get ad-free shows, a -only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: vanta.com/SECURITYNOW bitwarden.com/twit threatlocker.com for Security Now veeam.com

Utah es 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 keys? 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? Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1016-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! what you love and get ad-free shows, a -only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: 1.com/securitynow uscloud.com deleteme.com/twit promo code TWIT zscaler.com/security canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT

Firefox amends their -- 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 s the Kaspersky ban. Gmail plans to switch from SMS to QR code authentication. A SpinRite success and some fun . An astonishing new technology for targeted radio jamming Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1015-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! what you love and get ad-free shows, a -only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: legatosecurity.com bitwarden.com/twit veeam.com threatlocker.com for Security Now

Apple disables Advanced Data Protection for new UK s. Paying ransoms is not as cut and dried as we might imagine. Elon Musk's "X" social media blocks "Signal.me" links. Spain's soccer league blocks Cloudflare and causes a mess. Two new (and rare) vulnerabilities discovered in OpenSSH. The U.S. seems unable to evict Chinese attackers from its Telecom systems. What are those Chinese "Salt Typhoon" hackers doing to get in? The largest (by far) cryptocurrency heist in history occurred Friday. Ex-NSA head says the U.S. is falling behind on the cyber front lines. We have the winner (and a good one) replacement term for "backdoor". A look at a pathetic access control system that begs to be hacked (and will be). Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1014-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! what you love and get ad-free shows, a -only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: zscaler.com/security deleteme.com/twit promo code TWIT uscloud.com canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT

US lawmakers respond to the UK's outrageous demand about Apple's encryption. What, exactly, is a "backdoor", and can a "backdoor" NOT be secret? Highlights from last week's Windows' Patch Tuesday. A look into RansomHub: The latest king of the Ransomware hill. "TOAD": Telephone-Oriented Attack Delivery. The state of Texas -versus- DeepSeek. Disabling Apple's "Restricted Mode". Where did I put that $800 million in Bitcoin? A Sci-Fi author update. And a deep dive into the misoperation of Chrome's critically important Web Extension Store Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1013-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! what you love and get ad-free shows, a -only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: veeam.com legatosecurity.com threatlocker.com for Security Now bitwarden.com/twit vanta.com/SECURITYNOW

New "SparkCat" secret-stealing AI image scanner discovered in App and Play stores. The UK demands that Apple does the impossible: decrypting ADP cloud data. moves forward on legislation to require backdoors to encryption. Firefox moves to 135 with a bunch of useful new features. The Five Eyes alliance publishes edge-device security guidance. Six NetGear routers contain CVSS 9.6 and 9.8 vulnerabilities. Sysinternals utilities allow malicious Windows DLL injection. Google removes restrictive do-gooder language from AI application policies. "AI Fuzzing" successfully jailbreaks the most powerful ChatGPT o3 model. Examining the well and deliberately hidden truth behind ransomware cyberattacks on U.S. K-12 schools Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1012-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! what you love and get ad-free shows, a -only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: deleteme.com/twit promo code TWIT canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT zscaler.com/security uscloud.com 1.com/securitynow

Why was DeepSeek banned by Italian authorities? What internal proprietary DeepSeek data was found online? What is "DeepSeek" anyway? Why do we care, and what does it mean? Did Microsoft just make OpenAI's strong model available for free? Google explains how generative AI can be and is being misused. An actively exploited and unpatched Zyxel router vulnerability. The new US "ROUTERS" Act. Is pirate-site blocking legislation justified or is it censorship? Russia's blocked website count tops 400,000. Microsoft adds "scareware" warnings to Edge. Bitwarden improves security. What's still my favorite disk imaging tool? And let's take a close look into the extraction of proscribed knowledge from today's AI Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1011-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! what you love and get ad-free shows, a -only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: threatlocker.com for Security Now veeam.com bitwarden.com/twit

eM Client CAN be purchased outright. An astonishing 5-year-old typo in MasterCard's DNS. An unwelcome surprise received by 18,459 low-level hackers. DDoS attacks continue growing, seemingly without any end in sight. Let's Encrypt clarifies their plans for 6-day "we barely knew you" certificates. SpinRite uncovers a bad brand new 8TB drive. Listener about TOTP, Syncthing and UDP hole punching, email spam, ValiDrive speed, AI neural nets, DJI geofencing, and advertising in the "New" Outlook. A look into the tradeoffs required to obtain privacy for our DNS lookups Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1010-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: uscloud.com deleteme.com/twit promo code TWIT bitwarden.com/twit zscaler.com/security

What do we learn from January's record breaking 0-day critical Patch Tuesday? Microsoft to "force-install" a new Outlook into all Windows 10 and 11 desktops? GoDaddy required to get much more serious about its hosting security. More age verification enforcement is coming, including globally. What another instance of a widely exposed management interface teaches us. DJI drone's official firmware update lifts geofencing for unrestricted flight. CISA's efforts pay off with MUCH improved critical infrastructure security. Listener about TOTP, HOTP and age-verification. And we take a deep dive into cracking authenticator keys Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1009-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: vanta.com/SECURITYNOW bitwarden.com/twit threatlocker.com for Security Now veeam.com

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" receives a (blessedly infrequent) update. Government email is not using encryption? Really? Email relaying prevents point-to-point end-to-end encryption and authentication. Just because Let's Encrypt doesn't email doesn't mean it's impossible. What Sci-Fi does ChatGPT think I (Steve) should start reading next? To auto-update or not to auto-update? — is that one question or two? And, until today, we've never taken a deep dive into the technology of time-varying 6-digit one time tokens. Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1008-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.