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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. You can join Club TWiT for $10 per month and get ad-free audio and video feeds for all our shows plus everything else the club offers...or get just this podcast ad-free for $5 per month. New episodes every Tuesday.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License - Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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  • SN 1080: Vulnerability Debt Repayment - Will Mythos Change Cybersecurity Forever?
    May 27 2026

    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

    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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    2 hrs and 44 mins
  • SN 1081: AI Captured the Flag - Personal AI: Productivity Superpower or Privacy Threat?
    Jun 3 2026

    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

    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.

    Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!
    Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit

    Sponsors:

    • bitwarden.com/twit
    • hoxhunt.com/securitynow
    • zscaler.com/security
    • material.security
    • meter.com/securitynow
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    3 hrs and 20 mins
  • SN 1079: Daybreak and Codename MDASH - Microsoft's Edge Password Blunder
    May 20 2026

    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

    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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    • zscaler.com/security
    • meter.com/securitynow
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    2 hrs and 52 mins
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I look forward to this show every week.

Steve Gibson is legendary and he really knows his stuff - who else could code so well (in assembler) AND develop security solutions which are ahead of their time and GIVE AWAY so many utilities at his site GRC dot com.

Leo Laporte brings some extra spark to the show - as he does across the TWIT (This Week in Technology) network

The only possible non-positive thing to sag might be that they are rather US West Coast - being in California it’s to be expected :)

Thanks to Steve and Leo for informing, educating and entertaining every week for over 1000 shows!

Relatable cyber security for techies and humans too ;)

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Absolutely love this every week. Steve & Leo are hilarious in their delivery of the latest cyber news

Brilliant

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