• 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 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

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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.
• 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

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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 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

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