• 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

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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

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• Canon printer driver vulnerabilities enable Windows kernel exploitation.
• Astonishing cyber-security awareness from a household appliance manufacturer.
• France 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 Accountability Act. Now what?
• AI bots hungry for new data are DDoSing FOSS projects.
• No Microsoft Account? 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 feedback.
• 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

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• 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?
• Password reuse doesn't appear to be dropping. Cloudflare has numbers.
• A listener shares his log of malicious Microsoft login 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

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• 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 feedback, 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

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• 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 feedback, 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

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• 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

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