• How Microsoft lured the US Government into a far deeper and expensive dependency upon its cybersecurity solutions.
• Gmail to offer native throwaway email aliases like Apple and Mozilla.
• Russia to ban several additional hosting companies and give its big Internet disconnect switch another test.
• Russia uses a diabolical Windows flaw to attack Ukrainians.
• The value of old Security Now episodes.
• TrueCrypt's successor.
• Using Cloudflare's Tunnel service for remote network access.
• How to make a local server appear to be on a remote public IP.
• How to share an 'impossible to type' password with someone.
• How to find obscure previous references in the Security Now podcast.
• What are the parameters for the expected and widely anticipated next generation Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)? What do those in the industry and academia expect? And is OpenAI's Sam Altman completely nuts for predicting it next year? Is it just a stock ploy?

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1001-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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• Bitwarden reaffirms it's commitment to open source.
• The rights of German security researchers are clarified.
• Australia to impose age limits on social media.
• Free Windows Server 2025 anyone?
• UAC wasn't getting in the way enough, so they're fixing that.
• "From Russia with fines" -- obey or else.
• South Korea fines Meta over serious user privacy violations.
• Synology's (very) critical zero-click RCE flaw.
• Malicious Python packages invoked by typos.
• Google to enforce full MFA for all cloud service users.
• Mozilla Foundation lays off 30%? Is Firefox safe?
• Some feedback from Dave's Garage (https://grc.sc/dave)
• GRC email
• CTL: AI Debugging
• CTL: Chat GPT vs YouTube Shorts
• CTL: Update on the "Train Tracks" Pic of the Week
• CTL: DNS Benchmark compatibility
• CTL: The accuracy of AI
• CTL: Exposing NAS to the Internet
• CTL: Congrats on 1000!

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1000-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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• Google's record-breaking fine by Russia. (How many 0's is that?)
• RT's editor-in-chief admits that their TV hosts are AI-generated.
• Windows 10 security updates set to end next October... or are they?
• When a good Chrome extension goes bad.
• Windows .RDP launch config files. What could possibly go wrong?
• Firefox 132 just received some new features.
• Chinese security cameras being removed from the UK.
• I know YOU wouldn't fall for this social engineering attack.
• What's GRC's next semi-commercial product going to be?
• And what's the prospect for AI being used to analyze code to eliminate security vulnerabilities?

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-999-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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• Apple proposes 45-day maximum certificate life.
• SEC fines four companies for downplaying their SolarWinds attack severity.
• Google adds 5 new features to Messenger including inappropriate content.
• Does AI-driven local device-side filtering resolve the encryption dilemma forever?
• The very nice looking "Session" messenger leaves Australia for Switzerland.
• Another quick look at the question of the EU's software liability moves.
• Fake North Korean employees WERE found to install backdoor malware.
• How to speed up an SSD without using SpinRite.
• Using ChatGPT to review and suggest improvements in code.
• And Internet governance has been trying to move the Internet to IPv6 for the past 25 years, but the Internet just doesn't want to go. Why not? And will it ever?

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-998-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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• Did Chinese researchers really break RSA encryption? What did they do?
• What next-level terror extortion is being powered by the NPD breach data?
• The EU to hold software companies liable for software security?
• Microsoft lost weeks of security logs. How hard did the try to fix the problem?
• The Chinese drone company DJI has sued the DoJ over its ban on DJI's drones.
• The DoJ wishes to acquire "DeepFake" technology to create fake people.
• Microsoft has bots pretending to fall for phishing campaigns, then leading the bad guys to their honeypots. It's diabolical and brilliant.
• A bit of BIMI logo follow-up, then...
• A look at the operation of the FIDO Alliance's forthcoming Credential Exchange Protocol which promises to create passkey collection portability

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-997-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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• uBlock Origin to the rescue
• National Public Data files for bankruptcy
• Will the .IO top level domain be disappearing?
• Patch Tuesday
• Firefox under attack
• Miscellany
• Sci-Fi
• The Sequence
• uBlock Origin
• Eero Routers
• Pep Link Router
• BIMI (up Scotty)

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-996-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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• Facebook's parent Meta not hashing passwords
• A New, forthcoming PayPal default opts their users into merchant data sharing
• DDoS breaks another record
• Speaking of these ASUS routers
• Do you know who you're hiring?
• Vitamin D
• The CUPS vulnerablility
• Routers for normal people
• uBlock Origin & Manifest V3

Show Notes: https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-995-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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• The Linux remote code execution flaw
• The CRUCIAL importance of Domain Control Security
• Roskomnadzor strikes a discordant note
• VLC gets a security update
• Tor and Tails Merge
• Telegram changes its long-standing "zero cooperation" policy
• Enshittification
• Bobiverse book 5
• Windows 10 notifications
• Experian woes
• Nuevomailer
• SpinRite
• Peter F. Hamilton
• Recall's Re-Rollout

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-994-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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