Security Now

• Meta winds down 3rd-party content filtering. Is encryption soon to follow?
• Taking over abandoned Command & Control server domains (strictly for research purposes only).
• IoT devices to get the "Cyber Trust Mark" — Will anyone notice or care?
• "SyncThing" receives a (blessedly infrequent) update.
• Government email is not using encryption? Really?
• Email relaying prevents point-to-point end-to-end encryption and authentication.
• Just because Let's Encrypt doesn't support email doesn't mean it's impossible.
• What Sci-Fi does ChatGPT think I (Steve) should start reading next?
• To auto-update or not to auto-update? — is that one question or two?
• And, until today, we've never taken a deep dive into the technology of time-varying 6-digit one time tokens.

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1008-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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• The consequences of Internet content restriction.
• The measured risks of 3rd-party browser extensions.
• The consequences of SonicWall's unpatched 9.8 firewall severity.
• The incredible number of still-unencrypted email servers.
• SonicWall vulnerability patching
• Shadowserver Foundation & eMail Encryption
• Salt Typhoon Evicted
• HIPAA gets a long-needed cybersecurity upgrade.
• The EU standardizes on USB-C for power charging. What?
• Believe it or not, a CATCHA you solve by playing DOOM.
• And... what I learned from three weeks of study of AI

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1007-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.

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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.

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