Cybersecurity guru Steve Gibson joins Leo Laporte every Tuesday. Steve and Leo break down the latest cybercrime and hacking stories, offering a deep understandi...
SN 1010: DNS Over TLS - Record DDoS, Hackers Get Hacked
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 feedback 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
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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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SN 1009: Attacking TOTP - Force-Installed Outlook, DJI Firmware Update
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 feedback about TOTP, HOTP and age-verification.
And we take a deep dive into cracking authenticator keys
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SN 1008: HOTP and TOTP - SyncThing, Auto-Updates, Sci-Fi Recs
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 support 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.
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SN 1007: AI Training & Inference - Unencrypted Email, Doom Captcha
The consequences of Internet content restriction.
The measured risks of 3rd-party browser extensions.
The consequences of SonicWall's unpatched 9.8 firewall severity.
The incredible number of still-unencrypted email servers.
SonicWall vulnerability patching
Shadowserver Foundation & eMail Encryption
Salt Typhoon Evicted
HIPAA gets a long-needed cybersecurity upgrade.
The EU standardizes on USB-C for power charging. What?
Believe it or not, a CATCHA you solve by playing DOOM.
And... what I learned from three weeks of study of AI
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SN 1006: Best of 2024 - Apple's Secret Backdoor, CrowdStrike Catastrophe, Recall's Privacy Nightmare
Leo revisits some of the year's top Security Now segments of 2024.
956. Apple's Hardware Backdoor: Steve reflects on the previous week's 'The Mystery of CVE-2023-38606' deep-dive. Did Apple deliberately designed a secure backdoor?
960. Unforeseen Consequences of Google's 3rd-party Cookie Cutoff: As Google moves to phase out third-party cookies, the advertising industry scrambles to find new ways to track users, potentially leading to more intrusive methods like requiring users to create accounts on websites.
961. Bitlocker: Chipped or Cracked?: A clever hacker demonstrates how BitLocker-encrypted drives can be compromised on systems using separate TPM chips, highlighting the importance of integrating TPM functionality directly into the CPU.
964. So, What Is Apple's PQ3?: Steve analyzes Apple's new "PQ3" post-quantum safe iMessaging protocol, uestioning whether it truly offers superior security compared to Signal's existing solution.
976. Recall - The 50 Gigabyte Privacy Bomb: Examining Microsoft's new "Recall" feature that records users' screens every few seconds, raising significant privacy concerns.
984. CrowdStruck: A look at the disastrous global IT outage caused by a faulty CrowdStrike Falcon update, affecting airports, hospitals, banks, and more.
1000. Steve and Leo reflect on 1000 episodes of Security Now.
1001. Artificial General Intelligence: Steve and Leo discuss the challenges in achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI) and the debate surrounding its potential timeline and societal impact.
Host: Leo Laporte
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