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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

Introducing Sara Al Madani: Stop Falling for “Potential” (Look for THIS Instead So You Don’t Waste Months on the Wrong Person) from On Purpose with Jay Shetty. Follow the show: On Purpose with Jay Shetty In this deeply honest conversation, Jay sits down with Sara Al Madani where she opens up about surviving toxic relationships, rebuilding her identity, and learning that love should never require abandoning yourself. Through pain, healing, and radical self-awareness, Sara shares how inner work became the foundation for every part of her life, from relationships to faith to self-love. Jay and Sara explore why we often confuse chemistry for compatibility, why we repeat familiar relationship patterns, and how healing starts the moment we stop blaming others and start taking responsibility for our choices. This episode is a reminder that love isn’t about chasing validation or fixing people, it’s about knowing yourself deeply enough to stop settling for less.  In this episode you'll learn: How to Stop Settling for Less How to Heal Before Dating Again How to Tell The Difference Between Want and Need  How to Break Toxic Relationship Patterns How to Choose Compatibility Over Chemistry How to Rebuild Self-Worth After Heartbreak How to Become the Love You Seek The moment you stop chasing validation, stop settling for breadcrumbs, and start choosing your peace, your life begins to change in ways you never imagined. Grab a copy of Sara’s book, Dear Narcissist: F*ck You, a bold, direct, and unfiltered guide to understanding narcissists in real life, just visit https://www.amazon.com/Dear-Narcissist-Spotting-Escaping-Narcissistic/dp/B0F54NB6LP  With Love and Gratitude, Jay Shetty JAY’S DAILY WISDOM DELIVERED STRAIGHT TO YOUR INBOX Join 900,000+ readers discovering how small daily shifts create big life change with my free newsletter. Subscribe https://news.jayshetty.me/subscribe   Check out our Apple subscription to unlock bonus content of On Purpose! https://lnk.to/JayShettyPodcast  What We Discuss: 00:00 Intro 02:07 The One Question to Ask Before Dating 04:15 Are You Looking for Love or Filling a Void? 05:57 What Are Your Dating Non-Negotiables? 08:56 Chemistry Is Not the Same as Compatibility 12:01 What Does Inner Work Actually Look Like? 15:41 The First Step Toward Healing 19:25 How to Raise Your Relationship Standards 22:33 Don’t Ignore These Dating Deal-Breakers! 27:37 Knowing When It’s Time to Leave 31:32 The Cost of Staying in a Toxic Relationship 34:42 Finding the Courage to Walk Away 39:10 Healing Through Your Relationship with God 42:49 What to Do When Someone Suddenly Ghosts You 45:58 Stop Falling in Love with Potential 47:00 You Can’t Force Someone to Change 49:51 Stop Waiting for Someone to Become Better 53:05 Don’t Abandon Self-Love For a Relationship 57:58 Manifestation Starts with Surrender 58:54 Is There Truth to These Popular Love Clichés? 01:00:52 Forgiveness Is Essential For Healing 01:03:13 How to Rewire and Train Your Mind 01:05:28 Sara on Final Five Episode Resources: Website | https://saraalmadani.com/  Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/iamsaraalmadani/  Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/saraalmadani/  TikTok | https://www.tiktok.com/@saraalmadani  X | https://x.com/sara_almadani See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. DISCLAIMER: Please note, this is an independent podcast episode not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced in conjunction with the host podcast feed or any of its media entities. The views and opinions expressed in this episode are solely those of the creators and guests. For any concerns, please reach out to [email protected].

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. 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: guardsquare.com doppel.com cyberhoot.com/securitynow trustedtech.team/securitynow365 XBOW.com

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. 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: outsystems.com/twit hoxhunt.com/securitynow zscaler.com/security meter.com/securitynow canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT joindeleteme.com/twit promo code TWIT

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 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: cyberhoot.com/securitynow guardsquare.com doppel.com outsystems.com/twit threatlocker.com/twit

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 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: outsystems.com/twit zscaler.com/security meter.com/securitynow bitwarden.com/twit hoxhunt.com/securitynow trustedtech.team/securitynow365

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 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: doppel.com threatlocker.com/twit material.security cyberhoot.com/securitynow guardsquare.com

Security leaders warn the era of AI-driven bug hunting has arrived, with Mythos uncovering hundreds of overlooked vulnerabilities in code bases as trusted as Firefox. Are defenders ready for the avalanche of exploits and the frantic race to patch? A disgruntled developer discloses multiple Windows 0-days. Microsoft purchases its own bugs in massive campaign. VeraCrypt & Wireshark suddenly lost their dev accounts. A serious problem with re-captured domain names. How might AI help to secure open source repositories. A listener wonders what we thought of Project Hail Mary. Cyber security professionals tell us What Mythos Means Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1075-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: canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT joindeleteme.com/twit promo code TWIT hoxhunt.com/securitynow meter.com/securitynow zscaler.com/security

We may already be living through the most consequential hundred days in cyber history, and the arrival of AI that can autonomously chain zero-day vulnerabilities into working exploits means the software industry's long-standing "ship it and patch it later" era is officially over. Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1074-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: guardsquare.com hoxhunt.com/securitynow zscaler.com/security

The FCC has banned all new consumer routers made outside the US, leaving networks stuck with aging, insecure hardware while blocking innovation. Find out why this sweeping move is raising eyebrows and lawsuits—and why it makes zero sense for cybersecurity. Apple's 26.4 age queries catches many by surprise. LinkedIn's 2.7 MB of privacy-invading javascript. Microsoft starts forcing Win11 24H2 to 25H2. Cisco loses source code to the Trivy supply-chain mess. Proton introduces privacy-first voice and video "Meet." GitHub to fix lagging security of its Actions feature. Cloudflare reaffirms the privacy of its 1.1.1.1 DNS. Cloudflare uses AI to re-code better secure Wordpress. The FCC drops a ban on all new consumer-grade routers. Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1073-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: meter.com/securitynow zscaler.com/security material.security bitwarden.com/twit hoxhunt.com/securitynow

An explosive supply chain hack in Light LLM nearly unleashed catastrophic malware across millions of AI systems, and it took a coder's quick thinking to catch it before it snowballed into disaster. Will California require Linux to verify its user's age. Apple's iOS 26.4 requires UK users to prove their age. Russia chooses to use home grown 5G mobile encryption. Ukraine knew the webcam was installed by Russian spies. Google moves quantum computing "Q Day" to 2029. At RSA, UK's NCSC CEO warns of vibe-coded SaaS replacements. More information about nasty ClickFix campaigns. More than one in seven Reddit postings are an AI-bot. The story behind the LiteLLM disaster that was averted. Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1072-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: threatlocker.com/twit adaptivesecurity.com guardsquare.com meter.com/securitynow