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SN 1016: The Bluetooth Backdoor - North Korean Texans, Apple Pushes Back
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 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
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2:56:45
SN 1015: Spatial-Domain Wireless Jamming - Firefox Privacy Policy, Signal Leaving Sweden?
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 languages?
Australia joins the Kaspersky ban.
Gmail plans to switch from SMS to QR code authentication.
A SpinRite success and some fun feedback.
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
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2:52:47
SN 1014: FREEDOM Administration Login - Apple's UK Privacy Showdown, $1.5 Billion Crypto Heist
Apple disables Advanced Data Protection for new UK users.
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
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2:39:37
SN 1013: The Chrome Web Store is a mess - Apple Encryption in the UK, Texas Vs. DeepSeek
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
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2:31:28
SN 1012: Hiding School Cyberattacks - SparkCat, Decrypting ADP, AI Fuzzing
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.
France 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
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