Feb 11th 2025
Security Now 1012
Hiding School Cyberattacks
Hosted by
Steve Gibson,
Leo Laporte
SparkCat, Decrypting ADP, AI Fuzzing
Records live every Tuesday at 4:30pm Eastern / 1:30pm Pacific / 21:30 UTC.
- New "SparkCat" secret-stealing AI image scanner discovered in App and Play stores.
- The UK demands that Apple does the impossible: decrypting ADP cloud data.
- France moves forward on legislation to require backdoors to encryption.
- Firefox moves to 135 with a bunch of useful new features.
- The Five Eyes alliance publishes edge-device security guidance.
- Six NetGear routers contain CVSS 9.6 and 9.8 vulnerabilities.
- Sysinternals utilities allow malicious Windows DLL injection.
- Google removes restrictive do-gooder language from AI application policies.
- "AI Fuzzing" successfully jailbreaks the most powerful ChatGPT o3 model.
- Examining the well and deliberately hidden truth behind ransomware cyberattacks on U.S. K-12 schools
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1012-Notes.pdf
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