Security Now
SN 1104: The hole in OpenSSH - Password Bypass in Plain Sight
From hacked French refrigerators igniting fires to a massive OpenSSH authentication bug hiding in plain sight for a decade, this week's stories expose how lapses in basic security ripple into chaos—and why AI is now both a weapon and shield.
- TA surprising announcement regarding SpinRite.
- What is being "AI-pilled" and how does it happen.
- OpenAI just released GPT-6 Cyber. What does that mean.
- An irresponsible hacker published 30+ N-Able 0-days.
- 700 French refrigerators hacked. What's next.
- Lots of listener feedback about the Cloudflare tunneling solution, Voyager 1, true hardware drive encryption, the random number 4 and the amount of debris in orbit
- Then we look at a 10-year old serious SSH authentication bug (that's kinda wonderful)
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1104-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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SN 1103: Exposing Bad Consumer Crypto - AI vs. Encrypted Drives
What happens when a 27-year-old gets handed the keys to completely refactor nearly all of Cisco's code? This week's episode dives into tech's strangest management bets and the friction brewing inside one of the industry's giants.
- Cisco gives a 27-year old the task of recoding 98% of their software with AI.
- A serious but not earth shaking vulnerability found in PXE booting.
- The largest ($6.3 BILLION) financial heist in history (with crypto).
- 710 Polymarket gambling wallets emptied of $2.7 million.
- A new robots.txt control for AI bots, and agreement to obey it.
- Google generates haiku from the first orbital AI.
- From our listeners: Does stealth updating make sense, how to move web servers off the Internet, books don't contain knowledge, a small company attacked by powerful AI, how would an "AI kill switch" be implemented.
- Another new and worrisome application of reverse-engineering AI
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1103-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Mikah Sargent
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SN 1102: A Strategic Plug Pull - Lessons From a Global Patch-and-Panic Fire Drill
A newly uncovered PHP vulnerability put nearly 70% of the internet at risk, sending governments and enterprises into a frenzy as AI-powered attackers raced to exploit a flaw that had lurked unnoticed for 14 years. Hear why this could be just the start of an unrelenting wave of security crises.
- We take a detailed look at the many facets and aspects of last week's wild PHP ride:
- What happened.
- How it happened.
- Why it happened.
- How it could have been prevented.
- How it impacted many of our listeners.
- We consider the implications of what is said to be coming next and the idea of temporary "strategic disconnection" from the Internet
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1102-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Steve Gibson
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SN 1101: ECDSA's Curves Origins - When AI Becomes the Attacker
An unreleased AI solved a 26-year-old cryptographic secret in less than half an hour, exposing the origins of a widely used standard. Discover what this jaw-dropping breakthrough means for the future of trust and transparency in cybersecurity.
- Another record smashing Patch Tuesday.
- But again, all those updates were not without consequences.
- Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 reports on an agentic attack.
- A mass-compromised hardware cryptocurrency wallet attack.
- How to create your own known-safe crypto wallet.
- Feedback about AI, coding and SpinRite from a listener.
- What the reverse-engineering of the ECDSA curves means for security
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1101-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Mikah Sargent
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