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1. SN 1103: Exposing Bad Consumer Crypto - AI vs. Encrypted Drives

   4 november 2026 · 2 uur 49 min

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   What happens when a 27-year-old gets handed the keys to completely refactor nearly all of Cisco's code? This week's episode dives into tech's strangest management bets and the friction brewing inside one of the industry's giants. Lees meer

   Cisco gives a 27-year old the task of recoding 98% of their software with AI.

   A serious but not earth shaking vulnerability found in PXE booting.

   The largest ($6.3 BILLION) financial heist in history (with crypto).

   710 Polymarket gambling wallets emptied of $2.7 million.

   A new robots.txt control for AI bots, and agreement to obey it.

   Google generates haiku from the first orbital AI.

   From our listeners: Does stealth updating make sense, how to move web servers off the Internet, books don't contain knowledge, a small company attacked by powerful AI, how would an "AI kill switch" be implemented.

   Another new and worrisome application of reverse-engineering AI

   Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1103-Notes.pdf

   Hosts: Steve Gibson and Mikah Sargent

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2. SN 1102: A Strategic Plug Pull - Lessons From a Global Patch-and-Panic Fire Drill

   28 oktober 2026 · 2 uur 54 min

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   A newly uncovered PHP vulnerability put nearly 70% of the internet at risk, sending governments and enterprises into a frenzy as AI-powered attackers raced to exploit a flaw that had lurked unnoticed for 14 years. Hear why this could be just the start of an unrelenting wave of security crises. Lees meer

   We take a detailed look at the many facets and aspects of last week's wild PHP ride:

   What happened.

   How it happened.

   Why it happened.

   How it could have been prevented.

   How it impacted many of our listeners.

   We consider the implications of what is said to be coming next and the idea of temporary "strategic disconnection" from the Internet

   Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1102-Notes.pdf

   Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Steve Gibson

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

   21 oktober 2026 · 2 uur 32 min

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   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 transparency in cybersecurity. Lees meer

   Another record smashing Patch Tuesday.

   But again, all those updates were not without consequences.

   Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 reports on an agentic attack.

   A mass-compromised hardware cryptocurrency wallet attack.

   How to create your own known-safe crypto wallet.

   Feedback about AI, coding and SpinRite from a listener.

   What the reverse-engineering of the ECDSA curves means for security

   Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1101-Notes.pdf

   Hosts: Steve Gibson and Mikah Sargent

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

   14 oktober 2026 · 2 uur 49 min

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   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. Lees meer

   Anthropic cuts live Internet access during testing.

   Will LLM technology turn out to be an uncontrollable dead end?

   What alternative AI technologies are underway?

   Anthropic offers free AI vulnerability scanning for open source.

   South Korean banks hit by Claude-driven cyberattacks.

   Japan declares a state of cyber-emergency due to attacks.

   For one listener, agentic coding has taken the joy out of coding.

   A listener is having way too much fun with AI and Halloween.

   Some listeners believe I'm downplaying the dangers of AI.

   We carefully examine the consequences of maliciously trained AI

   Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1100-Notes.pdf

   Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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

   7 oktober 2026 · 3 uur 3 min

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   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 progress and the growing challenge of keeping AI truly aligned. Lees meer

   GLM-5.3 can be and has been abliterated. What does that mean?

   Firefox 157 repairs a large number of high-impact vulnerabilities.

   A surprising reduction in RSA crypto strength has been discovered.

   Powerful agentic AI is being used to attack merchants.

   A new and potent Spectre-style processor attack has been designed.

   A neighbor falls victim to a Bitcoin scam. What can be done?

   A new and surprising use was found for GRC's DNS Benchmark.

   An examination of the growing alignment challenges created by more intelligent AI

   Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1099-Notes.pdf

   Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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

   30 september 2026 · 2 uur 42 min

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   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 the curtain on AI's unpredictable power, the escalation of digital extortion, and why the next breach may hit closer to home than you think. Lees meer

   Muse has a bad 0-day

   The regularity of "Irregular"

   More rogue OpenAI breaches

   The Seven Deadly Sins (TSDS) hacker group

   Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) cargo ship hacked

   The FBI offended ShinyHunters's delicate sensibilities

   Canonical switches to an every–2-weeks release cadence

   Axios' AI 101: AI Explainer for normal people

   How worried should we be?

   Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1098-Notes.pdf

   Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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

   23 september 2026 · 2 uur 50 min

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   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 collided with real-world chaos. Lees meer

   Andrew Ng weighs-in on AI Doomsaying.

   The wisdom of outsourcing AI security testing.

   The true risk of an AI-created bioweapon.

   The EU KIDS Act -- this one is even messier.

   "Nightmare Eclipse" finally unmasks himself.

   A whitehat firm used Claude to attack OpenAI.

   Cisco's own massive 77 CVE update.

   What was the fallout from Sept's Patch Tuesday

   Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1097-Notes.pdf

   Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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

   16 september 2026 · 2 uur 51 min

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   Are we charging toward a Krell-style catastrophe with AI, arming ourselves with incomprehensible power while missing the real risks lurking beneath the code? Lees meer

   The full report on last week's nearly 1,000 Microsoft security fixes.

   Five months after its start, what's the status of Project Glasswing?

   Anthropic's rogue agent escape count reaches four incidents.

   Not to be outdone, OpenAI's count passes 10 and maybe as many as 23!

   Revisiting California's DROP compulsory data broker data deletion.

   Russian criminals get their hands on more than 153 million drivers license scans.

   "Skynet" is the wrong model for the end of the world. The right model is The Krell

   Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1096-Notes.pdf

   Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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

   9 september 2026 · 3 uur 6 min

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   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. Lees meer

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

    2 september 2026 · 2 uur 52 min

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    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. Lees meer

    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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