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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

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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

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DigiCert's latest security mishap triggered not just a scramble behind the scenes, but a cascading crisis that briefly wiped trust from millions of Windows systems. Find out how a single support slip, followed by Microsoft's heavy-handed response, left critical infrastructures exposed.

The FCC decides router firmware updates are useful.

Netgear applies for and gets a full FCC pass.

AI uncovers a 21-year old critical FreeBSD RCE.

What was behind that Let's Encrypt outage.

AI model repositories are overflowing with malware.

The CISA 2015 info-sharing act is being renewed.

Edge leaves ALL usernames and passwords in the clear.

An examination of DigiCert's breach and their response

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1078-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Google is sneaking a massive 4.7GB AI model into Chrome, and Mozilla is fighting back as the future of browsers threatens to turn into an AI arms race. Find out what's really happening behind this push and why it's setting off alarm bells across the web.

Hackers AI-code a portal, forget to add authentication.

The UK's NCSC issues a Mythos warning. Where's CISA?

Another (of many) Linux local privilege escalations.

AI may be spelling the end of bug bounties.

Anthropic releases "Claude Security" mini-Mythos.

ChatGPT gets very serious about login security.

Syncthing's SyncTrayzor v1 abandoned; v2 created.

Google drops an AI API into Chrome; Mozilla objects

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1077-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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What if your engineering calculations secretly sabotaged your nation's best efforts? This week, we reveal how a newly uncovered 21-year-old NSA rootkit quietly corrupted scientific research in hostile states and why it changes everything you think you know about cyberwarfare.

Bitwarden's CLI hit with a supply-chain attack.

Commercial routers in Iran fail shortly before the war.

Meta logging all employee activity to train replacement AI.

GRC's DNS Benchmark Release 5.

Two miscellaneous AI thoughts.

A bunch of terrific listener feedback.

Unraveling the diabolical history of "fast16.sys"

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1076-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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