Security Now (Audio)

Security Now (Audio)

Cybersecurity guru Steve Gibson joins Leo Laporte every Tuesday. Steve and Leo break down the latest cybercrime and hacking stories, offering a deep understanding of what's happening and how to protect yourself and your business. Security Now is a must listen for security professionals every week. Records live every Tuesday at 4:30pm Eastern / 1:30pm Pacific / 20:30 UTC.

Episodes

April 22, 2025 173 mins
  • 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.
  • Andro...
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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 nam...
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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 h...
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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 M...
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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 encrypt...
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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.
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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 breac...
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  • 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 lang...
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  • 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 ge...
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  • 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 Bitco...
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