Episodes

  • SN 972: Passkeys: A Shattered Dream? - IoT Default Passwords, Passkeys
    May 1 2024
    • GCHQ: No more default passwords for consumer IoT devices!
    • What happened with Chrome and 3rd-party cookies?
    • Race conditions and multi-threading
    • GM "accidentally" enrolled millions into "OnStar Smart Driver +" program
    • Steve recommends Ryk Brown's "Frontiers Saga"
    • SpinRite update
    • Passkeys: A Shattered Dream?

    Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-972-Notes.pdf

    Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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    2 hrs and 11 mins
  • SN 971: Chat (out of) Control - Fuxnet, Android Quarantine, Gentoo
    Apr 24 2024
    • What do you call "Stuxnet on steroids"??
    • Voyager 1 update
    • Android 15 to quarantine apps
    • Thunderbird & Microsoft Exchange
    • China bans Western encrypted messaging apps
    • Gentoo says "no" to AI
    • Cars collecting diving data
    • Freezing your credit
    • Investopedia
    • Computer Science Abstractions
    • Lazy People vs. Secure Systems
    • Actalis issues free S/MIME certificates
    • PIN Encryption
    • DRAM and GhostRace
    • AT&T Phishing Scam
    • Race Conditions and Multi-core processors
    • An Alternative to the Current Credit System
    • SpinRite Updates
    • Chat (out of) Control

    Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-971-Notes.pdf

    Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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    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.

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    2 hrs and 16 mins
  • SN 970: GhostRace - AT&T Breach Update, Cookie Notices, Router Buttons
    Apr 17 2024
    • An update on the AT&T data breach
    • 340,000 social security numbers leaked
    • Cookie Notice Compliance
    • The GDPR does enforce some transparency
    • Physical router buttons
    • Wifi enabled button pressers
    • Netsecfish disclosure of Dlink NAS vulnerability
    • Chrome bloat
    • SpinRite update
    • GhostRace

    Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-970-Notes.pdf

    Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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    1 hr and 53 mins
  • SN 969: Minimum Viable Secure Product - Dlink NAS Backdoor, Privnote, Crowdefense
    Apr 10 2024

    Out-of-support DLink NAS devices contain hard coded backdoor credentials

    Privnote is not so "Priv"

    Crowdfense is willing to pay millions

    Engineers Pinpoint Cause of Voyager 1 Issue, Are Working on Solution

    SpinRite Update

    Minimum Viable Secure Product

    Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-969-Notes.pdf

    Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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    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.

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    1 hr and 51 mins
  • SN 968: A Cautionary Tale - XZ Outbreak, AT&T Data Breach
    Apr 3 2024
    • A near-Universal (Local) Linux Elevation of Privilege vulnerability
    • TechCrunch informed AT&T of a 5 year old data breach
    • Signal to get very useful cloud backups
    • Telegram to allow restricted incoming
    • HP exits Russia ahead of schedule
    • Advertisers are heavier users of Ad Blockers than average Americans!
    • The Google Incognito Mode Lawsuit
    • Canonical fights malicious Ubuntu store apps
    • Spinrite update
    • A Cautionary Tale

    Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-968-Notes.pdf

    Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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    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.

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    1 hr and 46 mins
  • SN 967: GoFetch - Apple vs. DOJ, ".INTERNAL" TLD
    Mar 27 2024
    • Apple vs U.S. DOJ
    • G.M.'s Unbelievably Horrible Driver Data Sharing Ends
    • Super Sushi Samurai
    • Apple has effectively abandoned HomeKit Secure Routers
    • The forthcoming ".INTERNAL" TLD
    • The United Nations vs AI.
    • Telegram now blocked throughout Spain
    • Vancouver Pwn2Own 2024
    • China warns of incoming hacks
    • Annual Tax Season Phishing Deluge
    • SpinRite update
    • Authentication without a phone
    • Are Passkeys quantum safe?
    • GoFetch: The Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chips

    Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-967-Notes.pdf

    Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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    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.

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    • bitwarden.com/twit
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    2 hrs and 2 mins
  • SN 966: Morris The Second - Voyager 1, The Web Turns 35
    Mar 20 2024
    • Voyager 1 update
    • The Web turned 35 and Dad is disappointed
    • Automakers sharing driving data with insurance companies
    • A flaw in Passkey thinking
    • Passkeys vs 2fa
    • Sharing accounts with Passkeys
    • Passkeys vs. Passwords/MFA
    • Workaround to sites that block anonymous email addresses
    • Open Bounty programs on HackerOne
    • Steve on Twitter
    • Ways to disclose bugs publicly
    • Security by obscurity
    • Something you have/know/are vs Passkeys
    • Passkeys vs TOTP
    • Inspecting Chrome extensions
    • Passkey transportability
    • Morris the Second

    Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-966-Notes.pdf

    Hosts: Steve Gibson and Mikah Sargent

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    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.

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    • zscaler.com/zerotrustAI
    • robinhood.com/boost
    • GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT
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    2 hrs and 8 mins
  • SN 965: Passkeys vs. 2FA - Unhelpful CERT, VMware patch, Signal 7.0 Beta
    Mar 13 2024
    • VMware needs immediate patching
    • Midnight Blizzard still on the offensive
    • China is quietly "de-American'ing" their networks
    • Signal Version 7.0, now in beta
    • Meta, WhatsApp, and Messenger -meets- the EU's DMA
    • The Change Healthcare cyberattack
    • SpinRite update
    • Telegram's end-to-end encryption
    • KepassXC now supports passkeys
    • Login accelerators
    • Sites start rejecting @duck.com emails
    • Tool to detect chrome extensions change owners
    • Sortest SN title
    • Passkeys vs 2FA

    Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-965-Notes.pdf

    Hosts: Steve Gibson and Mikah Sargent

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    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.

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    • vanta.com/SECURITYNOW
    • joindeleteme.com/twit promo code TWIT
    • kolide.com/securitynow
    • business.eset.com/twit
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    2 hrs and 23 mins