“Jailbreaking AI” Security Now! #1011 show notes: China's DeepSeek surprise: Blocked by Italy, leaking data, and more. Microsoft "Think Deeper" Copilot toggle. US ROUTERS act. DNS-blocking legislation. How to trick AI into divulging restricted knowledge.

“DNS over TLS” Security Now! #1010 show notes: eM Client CAN be purchased. MasterCard's mega-typo! Mal-malware kits. The biggest DDoS ever. Let's Encrypt's clarification. Lots of feedback and a look at the high cost of encrypting DNS queries for privacy.

“Attacking TOTP” Security Now! #1009 show notes: January Patch Tuesday broke recent records. "New" Outlook to be force-installed. GoDaddy needs better security. More age verification coming. DJI drone lose geofencing. And let's attack TOTP's 80-bit key! :)

“HOTP and TOTP” Will Meta break encryption? Taking over C&C servers. IoT gets "CyberTrust Mark" Encrypting email exchanges. SyncThing updated. ChatGPT recommends Sci-Fi. And how =EXACTLY= do TOTP and HOTP authenticators operate and are they really random?

“A Chat with GPT” Security Now! #1004 show notes: Telecom providers hacked, we're on our own. TPM2 no matter what. MSFT product activation hacked. An Apple AI patent. Data brokers get FTC attention. Tor's “Snowflake” proxy. And how exactly does AI work?

@B_sqrd_B Hi Brandon. That “B04E” division overflow error was sometimes encountered by users of SpinRite v6.0. It was completely eliminated by version 6.1, which all 6.0 owners are entitled to receive (even after 20 years) for free. Just go to: All the best. 👍

“A Light-Day Away” Security Now! #1003 show notes: Microsoft NOT training on Office 365 data. MSFT FTC antitrust. Self-Driving Auto “Seizures”. Tor needs volunteers. Zelllo users change PW. Wireguard open port safety. AI training on AI. What of Voyager 1?

“Disconnected Experiences” Security Now! #1002 show notes: The Nearest Neighbor attack. Let's Encrypt turns 10. Chinese-built crane worries. Pakistan blocks Bluesky. "Swatting" Gits. D-Link VPN routers. Recall returns. Disconnecting Connected Experiences.

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Security Now! #1001 show notes: Microsoft suckered the US government with freebies, Gmail throwaway addresses, Russia vs Internet, Cloudflare Tunnel, TrueCrypt's sucessor, SN search, what is AGI and how far away is it?

“1000!” Yes!... Security Now! #1000 show notes: Bitwarden source closed? Rights of German researchers. Australia social media age restriction law. Free Server 2025! UAC gets more annoying. Russian fines. Synology 0-click. Malicious PyPi and MUCH MORE!! 👍

NEW DNS Benchmark options: The next thing to come from GRC will be two major improvements to GRC's most popular software ever... our DNS Benchmark. We're going to ask the Benchmark to pay for itself with a small one-time lifetime ownership fee. See link.

People here have been asking how they may subscribe to GRC's Software News (not the weekly Security Now! podcast summary email). The link above will get you to the general subscription management page where you can choose your subscriptions. THANKS! 👍

“AI Vulnerability Discovery” Security Now! #999 show notes: Russia fines Google a ridiculous amount. Fake (AI) RT News hosts. Win10 security update SOL or EOL ? .RDP launch files? Huh? FFv132. (More) What will AI probably mean for software vulnerabilities?

A detailed SpinRite Demo Video Walkthrough: In finishing up SpinRite v6.1's documentation I just created a detailed video walkthrough. You can find it on my YouTube channel here: Or directly from GRC here:

Lots of news on the SpinRite front. Industry veteran Dave Plummer (@davepl1968) just did one of his fast-paced information-PACKED videos... about SpinRite v6.1. It has been my hope to bring SpinRite to life, and Dave has really helped! Watch it here:

“The Endless Journey to IPv6” Security Now! #998 show notes: Apple's (bad) 45-day cert lifetime proposal. SEC fines over SolarWinds lies. 5 new Google Messenger features. Could AI solve the E2EE dilemma? The "Session" messenger. Will be ever be IPv6-only?

Subscribe to GRC's weekly Security Now! podcast summary: Sorry! My bad! I forgot to post Tuesday's summary here yesterday. But 11,314 listeners who subscribe to the podcast email received it the night before. I WILL remember to post it here in the future.

“Credential Exchange Protocol” Security Now! #997 show notes: Was RSA crypto broken by Chinese researchers? Extortion fueled by breached data. The EU's new software defect liability law. DJI drone future. And passkey credentials secure transport via CXP.

“BIMI (up Scotty)” Security Now! #996 show notes: Much more on uBlock Origin. NPD goes belly up. Could the .IO domain be removed? Patch Tuesday. A bad FireFox vuln. The Sequence puzzle/game. The best router. Wayback offline. What's BIMI and can it succeed?