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SN 1017: Is YOUR System Vulnerable to RowHammer? - Telegram's Crypto, Twitter Outage, FBI Warning
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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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
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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
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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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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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