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Cybersecurity guru Steve Gibson joins Leo Laporte every Tuesday. Steve and Leo break down the latest cybercrime and hacking stories, offering a deep understanding of what's happening and how to protect yourself and your business. Security Now is a must listen for security professionals every week.
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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.
You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page.
For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
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SN 1097: Mega Patch Tuesday Fallout - When AI Outsmarts Its Makers
After Microsoft's historic Mega Patch Tuesday, enterprise IT teams worldwide are scrambling as a wave of updates triggers system meltdowns, broken domains, and silent Excel failures. Find out how AI-driven speed collided with real-world chaos.
- Andrew Ng weighs-in on AI Doomsaying.
- The wisdom of outsourcing AI security testing.
- The true risk of an AI-created bioweapon.
- The EU KIDS Act -- this one is even messier.
- "Nightmare Eclipse" finally unmasks himself.
- A whitehat firm used Claude to attack OpenAI.
- Cisco's own massive 77 CVE update.
- What was the fallout from Sept's Patch Tuesday
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1097-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.
You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page.
For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
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SN 1097: Mega Patch Tuesday Fallout - When AI Outsmarts Its Makers
After Microsoft's historic Mega Patch Tuesday, enterprise IT teams worldwide are scrambling as a wave of updates triggers system meltdowns, broken domains, and silent Excel failures. Find out how AI-driven speed collided with real-world chaos.
- Andrew Ng weighs-in on AI Doomsaying.
- The wisdom of outsourcing AI security testing.
- The true risk of an AI-created bioweapon.
- The EU KIDS Act -- this one is even messier.
- "Nightmare Eclipse" finally unmasks himself.
- A whitehat firm used Claude to attack OpenAI.
- Cisco's own massive 77 CVE update.
- What was the fallout from Sept's Patch Tuesday
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1097-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.
You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page.
For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
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SN 1097: Mega Patch Tuesday Fallout - When AI Outsmarts Its Makers
After Microsoft's historic Mega Patch Tuesday, enterprise IT teams worldwide are scrambling as a wave of updates triggers system meltdowns, broken domains, and silent Excel failures. Find out how AI-driven speed collided with real-world chaos.
- Andrew Ng weighs-in on AI Doomsaying.
- The wisdom of outsourcing AI security testing.
- The true risk of an AI-created bioweapon.
- The EU KIDS Act -- this one is even messier.
- "Nightmare Eclipse" finally unmasks himself.
- A whitehat firm used Claude to attack OpenAI.
- Cisco's own massive 77 CVE update.
- What was the fallout from Sept's Patch Tuesday
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1097-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.
You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page.
For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
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SN 1096: Are we the Krell? - 153 Million Driver's Licenses Leaked
Are we charging toward a Krell-style catastrophe with AI, arming ourselves with incomprehensible power while missing the real risks lurking beneath the code?
- The full report on last week's nearly 1,000 Microsoft security fixes.
- Five months after its start, what's the status of Project Glasswing?
- Anthropic's rogue agent escape count reaches four incidents.
- Not to be outdone, OpenAI's count passes 10 and maybe as many as 23!
- Revisiting California's DROP compulsory data broker data deletion.
- Russian criminals get their hands on more than 153 million drivers license scans.
- "Skynet" is the wrong model for the end of the world. The right model is The Krell
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1096-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.
You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page.
For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
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SN 1096: Are we the Krell? - 153 Million Driver's Licenses Leaked
Are we charging toward a Krell-style catastrophe with AI, arming ourselves with incomprehensible power while missing the real risks lurking beneath the code?
- The full report on last week's nearly 1,000 Microsoft security fixes.
- Five months after its start, what's the status of Project Glasswing?
- Anthropic's rogue agent escape count reaches four incidents.
- Not to be outdone, OpenAI's count passes 10 and maybe as many as 23!
- Revisiting California's DROP compulsory data broker data deletion.
- Russian criminals get their hands on more than 153 million drivers license scans.
- "Skynet" is the wrong model for the end of the world. The right model is The Krell
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1096-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.
You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page.
For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
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SN 1096: Are we the Krell? - 153 Million Driver's Licenses Leaked
Are we charging toward a Krell-style catastrophe with AI, arming ourselves with incomprehensible power while missing the real risks lurking beneath the code?
- Worried Anthropic researchers warn that AI 'could kill all humans'
- Anthropic Researchers Raise Alarm Over A.I. Acceleration, Warning of Threat to Humanity
- Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic
- Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
- New Apple Watches to get Siri AI 'Recaps' feature similar to AI wearables
- Apple Unveils the iPhone Duo, a Foldable Phone That Costs $1,999
- Key App Developers Have Yet to Embrace Apple's New Siri A.I.
- Why this month's Microsoft patch release is a doozy
- LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other devices
- LG's Response
- The Flock backlash is coming for retail
- Automobile Camouflage to Hide from Flock Cameras
- A Secretive DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
- Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online
- Some of Dyson's $500 toothbrushes are breaking
- iRobot unveils the Roomba Duo
- Husqvarna gets the first exception to the FCC's foreign robot ban for its mowers.
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1096-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.
You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page.
For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
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