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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 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
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SN 1095: AI-Driven Expertise Loss - Gemini, Hugging Face, and the AI Arms Race
OpenAI's latest advances have the rumor mill buzzing about "hidden thoughts" and unsupervisable models, but are AI safety experts panicking over the wrong threat? Get the clear-headed take behind the headlines.
- We start out with a classic old school hack against Dropbox.
- Next Patch Tuesday will be enabling "Memory Integrity" for many.
- Firefox moved to 155 and obtained a dumb Smart Window.
- CISA is terminating 6 most valuable cybersecurity services.
- OpenAI advanced to topof the heap with GPT-6 Astra.
- But... is it now hiding some of its thinking from monitoring?
- Nvidia is acquiring Hugging Face. Who's that good for?
- Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash and Cyber. Is it good?
- Chinese cyberespionage is using AI to become more slippery.
- Matthew Green proposes a fascinating take on AI bug drought.
- A lifelong safety engineer contemplates AI-driven loss of expertise.
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1095-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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SN 1094: AI Patching Shortcomings - Should You Trust AI-Generated Code?
AI-generated code is flooding the industry, but researchers reveal that almost half of it contains critical vulnerabilities. This week, we unpack what happens when the race for automation outpaces security best practices.
- A possible means for preventing prompt injection abuse.
- Clear evidence of Chinese-made router malicious intent.
- A cool before and after SpinRite graph of SSD performance.
- How about adding unpredictable hashes to role tags?
- What did Claude make of last week's podcast?
- Could much better harnesses prevent prompt injection?
- A listener wants us to stop saying AI "thinks".
- AI designers ignore well-understood security concepts.
- Can we explain LLM AI using conventional computer terms?
- A listener strongly dislikes the term "rotating credentials".
- The land of AI is being filled with "meat proxies".
- Researchers exhaustively test frontier model vulnerability remediation. (hint: It does not go well.)
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1094-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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SN 1093: Tokens in the Stream - Why LLMs are inherently insecure and prompt injection will persist
Turns out, every chatbot conversation runs on a messy hack at the heart of language models, making prompt injection an unsolved—and possibly unsolvable—security threat. Steve and Leo unravel the research that explains why "roles" in AI aren't what you think they are.
- Understanding the controversy surrounding "AI Model Distillation"
- Anthropic moves to make their most powerful Mythos 5 model more widely available.
- Bitwarden's "Secrets Manager" offering prevents agentic and prompt injection abuse.
- The astounding and disturbing truth about the way conversation AI actually works
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1093-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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