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SN 1081: AI Captured the Flag - Personal AI: Productivity Superpower or Privacy Threat?
AI vulnerability discovery just upended the legendary Capture the Flag competitions, leaving top hackers sidelined while algorithms dominate the scoreboard. Hear why one seasoned researcher says the entire game is over for humans.
- As expected, UnFiOS devices are under attack.
- CISA commands federal agencies to update Drupal.
- Can the largest botnet ever, be killed.
- Defender endpoint can cutoff a PC from the network.
- Charter Communications big account leak.
- Chrome moves device-bound session cookies from beta.
- Anthropic to release Mythos shortly.
- cURL and Daniel Stenberg.
- IBM & RedHat commit to fixing open source with AI.
- LOTS of terrific listener feedback this week.
- AI spells the end of a terrific source of training
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1081-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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SN 1080: Vulnerability Debt Repayment - Will Mythos Change Cybersecurity Forever?
Mozilla found 271 unknown Firefox vulnerabilities in days using AI—bugs that millions of automated test runs had missed for years. Steve Gibson argues this isn't a crisis. It's the industry finally paying down decades of security debt, and for the first time, defenders may have the advantage.
- Cisco meets Mythos
- Can the aging CVE system survive AI
- Patch deployment latency in the AI age
- MSFT's official YellowKey BitLocker bypass mitigation
- Ubiquiti patches 5 serious vulnerabilities
- Drupal attacked by a PostgreSQL injection
- Microsoft terminates SMS as a second factor
- GitHub hacked - all of its source code exfiltrated
- Russia is using very old Western software
- Why to get a no-charge AI chatbot account
- New Sci-Fi on Netflix
- What we learn from Mozilla's use of Mythos
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1080-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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SN 1079: Daybreak and Codename MDASH - Microsoft's Edge Password Blunder
OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google are racing to unleash next-gen AI that hunts for software vulnerabilities and hacks at scale. This episode explores how these advancements could shake up everything we thought we knew about cybersecurity.
- Microsoft rethinks Edge's "intended behavior" after it gets press.
- Chaotic Eclipse hacker strikes again with a Bitlocker bypass.
- Google's threat analysis group documents malicious AI use.
- Canada hasn't learned the lessons of the EU and the UK.
- AI chatbots may be far more addictive than social media.
- Project: Hail Mary now available to stream.
- An apparently-serious zero-point quantum vacuum energy source.
- A bit of listener feedback.
- OpenAI's & Microsoft's vulnerability discovery systems
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1079-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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SN 1078: DigiCert does it right - Hugging Face Under Fire
DigiCert's latest security mishap triggered not just a scramble behind the scenes, but a cascading crisis that briefly wiped trust from millions of Windows systems. Find out how a single support slip, followed by Microsoft's heavy-handed response, left critical infrastructures exposed.
- The FCC decides router firmware updates are useful.
- Netgear applies for and gets a full FCC pass.
- AI uncovers a 21-year old critical FreeBSD RCE.
- What was behind that Let's Encrypt outage.
- AI model repositories are overflowing with malware.
- The CISA 2015 info-sharing act is being renewed.
- Edge leaves ALL usernames and passwords in the clear.
- An examination of DigiCert's breach and their response
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1078-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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