Security Now
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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SN 1100: Booby Trapping LLMs - AI Frenzy in Cybercrime
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
Think your open-source AI model is safe? This episode uncovers how LLMs can be secretly booby-trapped with undetectable backdoors, raising the stakes for anyone deploying AI in serious environments.
- Anthropic cuts live Internet access during testing.
- Will LLM technology turn out to be an uncontrollable dead end?
- What alternative AI technologies are underway?
- Anthropic offers free AI vulnerability scanning for open source.
- South Korean banks hit by Claude-driven cyberattacks.
- Japan declares a state of cyber-emergency due to attacks.
- For one listener, agentic coding has taken the joy out of coding.
- A listener is having way too much fun with AI and Halloween.
- Some listeners believe I'm downplaying the dangers of AI.
- We carefully examine the consequences of maliciously trained AI
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1100-Notes.pdf
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SN 1099: An Alien Mind - From RSA Weakness to Agentic Attacks
As AI becomes startlingly capable, top minds at OpenAI admit they can't always control what their own creations do—or even fully understand how they think. This episode dives into the real-world tension between rapid progress and the growing challenge of keeping AI truly aligned.
- GLM-5.3 can be and has been abliterated. What does that mean?
- Firefox 157 repairs a large number of high-impact vulnerabilities.
- A surprising reduction in RSA crypto strength has been discovered.
- Powerful agentic AI is being used to attack merchants.
- A new and potent Spectre-style processor attack has been designed.
- A neighbor falls victim to a Bitcoin scam. What can be done?
- A new and surprising use was found for GRC's DNS Benchmark.
- An examination of the growing alignment challenges created by more intelligent AI
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1099-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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SN 1098: How worried should we be? - Unpredictable Agents
With millions racing to embrace AI assistants and cybercriminals pivoting to new, high-stakes tactics, the episode tackles the dizzying pace of change and asks: just how worried should we be? The discussion pulls back the curtain on AI's unpredictable power, the escalation of digital extortion, and why the next breach may hit closer to home than you think.
- Muse has a bad 0-day
- The regularity of "Irregular"
- More rogue OpenAI breaches
- The Seven Deadly Sins (TSDS) hacker group
- Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) cargo ship hacked
- The FBI offended ShinyHunters's delicate sensibilities
- Canonical switches to an every–2-weeks release cadence
- Axios' AI 101: AI Explainer for normal people
- How worried should we be?
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1098-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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SN 1098: How worried should we be? - Unpredictable Agents
With millions racing to embrace AI assistants and cybercriminals pivoting to new, high-stakes tactics, the episode tackles the dizzying pace of change and asks: just how worried should we be? The discussion pulls back the curtain on AI's unpredictable power, the escalation of digital extortion, and why the next breach may hit closer to home than you think.
- Muse has a bad 0-day
- The regularity of "Irregular"
- More rogue OpenAI breaches
- The Seven Deadly Sins (TSDS) hacker group
- Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) cargo ship hacked
- The FBI offended ShinyHunters's delicate sensibilities
- Canonical switches to an every–2-weeks release cadence
- Axios' AI 101: AI Explainer for normal people
- How worried should we be?
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1098-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.
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