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Security Now (Audio)

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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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Episodes

  1. SN 1101: ECDSA's Curves Origins - When AI Becomes the Attacker

    · 2 h 32 min · Episode 1101

    An unreleased AI solved a 26-year-old cryptographic secret in less than half an hour, exposing the origins of a widely used standard. Discover what this jaw-dropping breakthrough means for the future of trust and…

  2. SN 1100: Booby Trapping LLMs - AI Frenzy in Cybercrime

    · 2 h 49 min · Episode 1100

    Think your open-source AI model is safe? This episode uncovers how LLMs can be secretly booby-trapped with undetectable backdoors, raising the stakes for anyone deploying AI in serious environments. • Anthropic cuts…

  3. SN 1099: An Alien Mind - From RSA Weakness to Agentic Attacks

    · 3 h 03 min · Episode 1099

    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…

  4. SN 1098: How worried should we be? - Unpredictable Agents

    · 2 h 42 min · Episode 1098

    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…

  5. SN 1097: Mega Patch Tuesday Fallout - When AI Outsmarts Its Makers

    · 2 h 50 min · Episode 1097

    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…

  6. SN 1096: Are we the Krell? - 153 Million Driver's Licenses Leaked

    · 2 h 51 min · Episode 1096

    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…

  7. SN 1095: AI-Driven Expertise Loss - Gemini, Hugging Face, and the AI Arms Race

    · 3 h 06 min · Episode 1095

    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…

  8. SN 1094: AI Patching Shortcomings - Should You Trust AI-Generated Code?

    · 2 h 52 min · Episode 1094

    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…

  9. SN 1093: Tokens in the Stream - Why LLMs are inherently insecure and prompt injection will persist

    · 2 h 48 min · Episode 1093

    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…

  10. SN 1092: Restraint Abliteration - Rotating Keys, Broken Guardrails

    · 2 h 49 min · Episode 1092

    From autocorrect to full-fledged conversationalists, discover how a few tweaks transformed language models—and why understanding this shift exposes urgent questions about AI safety and control. • Trusting an open…

  11. SN 1091: The Post BlackHat State of AI - When AI Writes Malware

    · 2 h 51 min · Episode 1091

    AI agents are breaking free from their test environments, outsmarting their creators and breaching real-world networks in ways that no one predicted. Discover how these agentic models are changing the game for both…

  12. SN 1090: Black Hat - The Hidden Flaws in AI Security Nobody Saw Coming

    · 2 h 05 min · Episode 1090

    At Black Hat Las Vegas, the Security Now crew digs into how AI is not just finding hidden software bugs but also fueling both groundbreaking innovation and alarming new exploits. When open models can launch surprise…

  13. SN 1089: Models Go Rogue & ExploitGym - Regulators, Start Your Engines

    · 3 h 08 min · Episode 1089

    What happens when an unconstrained OpenAI model goes rogue and hacks into Hugging Face, breaching real-world security boundaries? This episode unpacks a watershed moment for AI safety that has everyone in cybersecurity…

  14. SN 1088: A Nefarious Novel Use for AI - Ransomware Negotiations Go High-Tech

    · 2 h 47 min · Episode 1088

    Cybercriminals are harnessing AI not to break in, but to make sense of their stolen loot and increase their leverage in multi-million dollar ransomware heists. This episode unpacks how AI is now turbocharging extortion…

  15. SN 1087: HalluSquatting, GhostApproval & GitLost - Patch Tuesday Breaks Records

    · 2 h 49 min · Episode 1087

    AI is rewriting the rules of cybersecurity, and this week, massive government and private sector moves show just how quickly the stakes are rising. Find out how regulators, attackers, and defenders are all scrambling…

  16. SN 1086: The Apex Agentic Adversary - Visual Prompt Injection Strikes

    · 2 h 53 min · Episode 1086

    From the sudden retirement of Internet pioneer Vint Cerf to the unstoppable advance of "apex agentic adversaries," get a front-row seat to the unfolding security revolution and its massive real-world stakes. • Why…

  17. SN 1085: A SOTA State-Sponsored Campaign - AI's New Superpower: Loop Engineering

    · 2 h 50 min · Episode 1085

    AI is now uncovering and fixing thousands of hidden software bugs faster than humans can keep up, but not everyone is playing by the rules. Find out how state-sponsored attackers and careless disclosures are turning…

  18. SN 1084: The Residential Proxy Threat - Malicious Proxies in Your Living Room

    · 2 h 48 min · Episode 1084

    A flood of everyday gadgets, from cheap streaming boxes to digital photo frames, are being secretly conscripted into global proxy networks and used to mask major cyberattacks—possibly even targeting your own home…

  19. SN 1083: Patch Tuesday à la AI - Arch Linux Repo Under Siege

    · 2 h 36 min · Episode 1083

    This episode unpacks the jaw-dropping surge in vulnerabilities unearthed by AI, revealing how Microsoft shattered its own patch records while adversaries and defenders race to outpace each other. The conversation gets…

  20. SN 1082: The Malicious Use of AI - Anthropic's Red Team Report

    · 2 h 37 min · Episode 1082

    Discover how Anthropic's secretive red team and the MITRE ATT&CK framework are mapping the chilling rise of malicious AI use, revealing cyber threats that now move faster than defenders can respond. • Was a U.S. law…

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