When a popular antivirus and even Notepad++ turn into infection vectors after supply chain breaches, it's clear no software is safe from attack—or from its own update system. Steve and Leo unpack the risks hiding right inside your next auto-update.

• An anti-virus system infects its own users.
• Apple's next iOS release "fuzzes" cellular locations.
• cURL discontinues bug bounties under bogus AI flood.
• AI discovers and fixes 15 CVE-worthy 0-days in OpenSSL.
• Ireland did NOT already pass their spying legislation.
• AI irreversibly deletes all project files. Says it's sorry.
• Windows has a serious global clipboard security problem.
• ISPs have the ability to monetize their subscriber's identities.
• MongoDB has lowered the hacking skill level bar to the floor

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1063-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Can AI really write malware better than hackers ever could? This episode exposes the first real-world case of advanced, fully AI-generated malware and why it signals a seismic shift in cybersecurity risk.

• CISA's uncertain future remains quite worrisome.
• Worrisome is Ireland's new "lawful" interception law.
• The EU's Digital Rights organization pushes back.
• Microsoft acknowledges it turns over user encryption keys.
• Alex Neihaus on AI enterprise usage dangers.
• Gavin confesses he put a database on the Internet.
• Worries about a massive podcast rewinding backlog.
• What does the emergence of AI-generated malware portend?

Show Note - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1062-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Soaring RAM prices are about to hit your security gear where it hurts, and the fallout could change what's protecting your network. Find out who's about to pay and why the AI gold rush is reshaping more than just your server specs.

• RAM pricing to affect enterprise firewall equipment.
• Anthropic provides sizeable support to Python Foundation.
• The FTC clamps down on GM's secret sale of driving data.
• "ANCHOR" replaces "CIPAC" for industry-government sharing.
• Germany planning to legislate total access to global data.
• Grubhub becomes the latest ShinyHunters extortion victim.
• Let's Encrypt's 6-Day certs are available to everyone.
• Iran planning to permanently take itself off the Internet.
• HD Tune before and after a SpinRite Level 3 refresh.
• Some great listener feedback, and
• More trouble from GhostPoster malicious browser extensions

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1061-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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