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SN 1097: Mega Patch Tuesday Fallout - When AI Outsmarts Its Makers
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.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 TuesdayShow Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1097-Notes.pdfHosts: Steve Gibson and Leo LaporteDownload or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.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.Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: trustedtech.team/twit hoxhunt.com/securitynow rayneo.com guardsquare.com threatlocker.com/twit outsystems.com/twit
SN 1097: Mega Patch Tuesday Fallout - When AI Outsmarts Its Makers
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.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 TuesdayShow Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1097-Notes.pdfHosts: Steve Gibson and Leo LaporteDownload or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.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.Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: trustedtech.team/twit hoxhunt.com/securitynow rayneo.com guardsquare.com threatlocker.com/twit outsystems.com/twit
SN 1096: Are we the Krell? - 153 Million Driver's Licenses Leaked
Are we charging toward a Krell-style catastrophe with AI, arming ourselves with incomprehensible power while missing the real risks lurking beneath the code?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 KrellShow Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1096-Notes.pdfHosts: Steve Gibson and Leo LaporteDownload or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.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.Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: trustedtech.team/twit joindeleteme.com/twit-biz bitwarden.com/twit material.security canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT threatlocker.com/twit
SN 1096: Are we the Krell? - 153 Million Driver's Licenses Leaked
Are we charging toward a Krell-style catastrophe with AI, arming ourselves with incomprehensible power while missing the real risks lurking beneath the code?Worried Anthropic researchers warn that AI 'could kill all humans'Anthropic Researchers Raise Alarm Over A.I. Acceleration, Warning of Threat to HumanityCountering misuse of AI: September 2026 / AnthropicPluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory DoctorowNew Apple Watches to get Siri AI 'Recaps' feature similar to AI wearablesApple Unveils the iPhone Duo, a Foldable Phone That Costs $1,999Key App Developers Have Yet to Embrace Apple's New Siri A.I.Why this month's Microsoft patch release is a doozyLG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other devicesLG's ResponseThe Flock backlash is coming for retailAutomobile Camouflage to Hide from Flock CamerasA Secretive DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them OverClearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life OnlineSome of Dyson's $500 toothbrushes are breakingiRobot unveils the Roomba DuoHusqvarna gets the first exception to the FCC's foreign robot ban for its mowers.Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1096-Notes.pdfHosts: Steve Gibson and Leo LaporteDownload or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.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.Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: joindeleteme.com/twit-biz bitwarden.com/twit material.security canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT threatlocker.com/twit
SN 1095: AI-Driven Expertise Loss - Gemini, Hugging Face, and the AI Arms Race
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.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.pdfHosts: Steve Gibson and Leo LaporteDownload or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.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.Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: doppel.com hoxhunt.com/securitynow guardsquare.com threatlocker.com/twit
SN 1095: AI-Driven Expertise Loss - Gemini, Hugging Face, and the AI Arms Race
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.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.pdfHosts: Steve Gibson and Leo LaporteDownload or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.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.Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: doppel.com hoxhunt.com/securitynow guardsquare.com threatlocker.com/twit
SN 1094: AI Patching Shortcomings - Should You Trust AI-Generated Code?
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.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.pdfHosts: Steve Gibson and Leo LaporteDownload or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.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.Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: bitwarden.com/twit outsystems.com/twit threatlocker.com/twit doppel.com
SN 1094: AI Patching Shortcomings - Should You Trust AI-Generated Code?
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.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.pdfHosts: Steve Gibson and Leo LaporteDownload or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.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.Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: bitwarden.com/twit outsystems.com/twit threatlocker.com/twit doppel.com
SN 1093: Tokens in the Stream - Why LLMs are inherently insecure and prompt injection will persist
Turns out, every chatbot conversation runs on a messy hack at the heart of language models, making prompt injection an unsolved—and possibly unsolvable—security threat. Steve and Leo unravel the research that explains why "roles" in AI aren't what you think they are.Understanding the controversy surrounding "AI Model Distillation"Anthropic moves to make their most powerful Mythos 5 model more widely available.Bitwarden's "Secrets Manager" offering prevents agentic and prompt injection abuse.The astounding and disturbing truth about the way conversation AI actually worksShow Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1093-Notes.pdfHosts: Steve Gibson and Leo LaporteDownload or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.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.Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: threatlocker.com/twit box.com/AI hoxhunt.com/securitynow guardsquare.com material.security
SN 1093: Tokens in the Stream - Why LLMs are inherently insecure and prompt injection will persist
Turns out, every chatbot conversation runs on a messy hack at the heart of language models, making prompt injection an unsolved—and possibly unsolvable—security threat. Steve and Leo unravel the research that explains why "roles" in AI aren't what you think they are.Understanding the controversy surrounding "AI Model Distillation"Anthropic moves to make their most powerful Mythos 5 model more widely available.Bitwarden's "Secrets Manager" offering prevents agentic and prompt injection abuse.The astounding and disturbing truth about the way conversation AI actually worksShow Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1093-Notes.pdfHosts: Steve Gibson and Leo LaporteDownload or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.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.Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: threatlocker.com/twit box.com/AI hoxhunt.com/securitynow guardsquare.com material.security
SN 1092: Restraint Abliteration - Rotating Keys, Broken Guardrails
From autocorrect to full-fledged conversationalists, discover how a few tweaks transformed language models—and why understanding this shift exposes urgent questions about AI safety and control.Trusting an open source AI proxy might bite you.France's under-15 social media ban hits its constitution.A bit of AI prompting found a serious bug in Zoom.AI-based network defenders see a stock price jump.A (very) deep dive into the operation of AI chatbotsShow Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1092-Notes.pdfHosts: Steve Gibson and Leo LaporteDownload or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.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.Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT joindeleteme.com/twit-biz doppel.com threatlocker.com/twit scribe.how/securitynow
SN 1092: Restraint Abliteration - Rotating Keys, Broken Guardrails
From autocorrect to full-fledged conversationalists, discover how a few tweaks transformed language models—and why understanding this shift exposes urgent questions about AI safety and control.Trusting an open source AI proxy might bite you.France's under-15 social media ban hits its constitution.A bit of AI prompting found a serious bug in Zoom.AI-based network defenders see a stock price jump.A (very) deep dive into the operation of AI chatbotsShow Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1092-Notes.pdfHosts: Steve Gibson and Leo LaporteDownload or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.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.Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT joindeleteme.com/twit-biz doppel.com threatlocker.com/twit scribe.how/securitynow
SN 1091: The Post BlackHat State of AI - When AI Writes Malware
AI agents are breaking free from their test environments, outsmarting their creators and breaching real-world networks in ways that no one predicted. Discover how these agentic models are changing the game for both cyber offense and defense.Anthropic's agentic AI also broke free and hacked others.We know much (much!) more about the OpenAI breakout.OpenAI posts that they're pausing "Astra" - even internally.What was that about AI recently cracking (or denting) cryptography.Bruce Schneier brilliantly equates AI agents to capricious genies.Apple doesn't react so well to the new deluge of security reports.Chrome 149 + 150 updates together fix 1,072 bugs. Yikes.psSense's creator is working to finish its nfSensei, its successorShow Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1091-Notes.pdfHosts: Steve Gibson and Leo LaporteDownload or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.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.Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: hoxhunt.com/securitynow guardsquare.com threatlocker.com/twit box.com/AI
SN 1091: The Post BlackHat State of AI - When AI Writes Malware
AI agents are breaking free from their test environments, outsmarting their creators and breaching real-world networks in ways that no one predicted. Discover how these agentic models are changing the game for both cyber offense and defense.Anthropic's agentic AI also broke free and hacked others.We know much (much!) more about the OpenAI breakout.OpenAI posts that they're pausing "Astra" - even internally.What was that about AI recently cracking (or denting) cryptography.Bruce Schneier brilliantly equates AI agents to capricious genies.Apple doesn't react so well to the new deluge of security reports.Chrome 149 + 150 updates together fix 1,072 bugs. Yikes.psSense's creator is working to finish its nfSensei, its successorShow Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1091-Notes.pdfHosts: Steve Gibson and Leo LaporteDownload or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.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.Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: hoxhunt.com/securitynow guardsquare.com threatlocker.com/twit box.com/AI
SN 1090: Black Hat - The Hidden Flaws in AI Security Nobody Saw Coming
At Black Hat Las Vegas, the Security Now crew digs into how AI is not just finding hidden software bugs but also fueling both groundbreaking innovation and alarming new exploits. When open models can launch surprise Bitcoin heists, who draws the line between forbidden knowledge and genuine progress?• Black Hat and DEF CON: Hacking Stories and Conference Culture • Zoox Ride-Hailing Hack and Over-the-Air Vulnerabilities • Autonomous Vehicles, AI, and the Security Implications • Hosts Share Personal Adoption and Use of AI Tools • AI-Powered Coding: From Hobbyists to Advanced Agency Chains • Local Models vs. Cloud AI: Privacy, Cost, and Control • App Development Democratized: Listeners Build Custom Solutions With AI • Code Generation, Testing, and Managing AI-Driven Project Cycles • AI's Role in Security: Vulnerability Discovery, Exploitation, and Patch Challenges • Technical Debt and the Race to Patch Decades-Old Bugs • The Dual-Use Dilemma: AI Tools for Both Attack and Defense • Guardrails, Model Partitioning, and the Fight Over Forbidden Knowledge • Open vs. Restricted AI: Global Models, Distillation, and Free Speech • LLM Security Weaknesses: Prompt Injection and Role Confusion Exposed • The Reliability Problem: Probabilistic AI and Non-Deterministic Software • AI Progress: Public Perception, Skepticism, and "Hogwash" Rebuttals • Reflections on AI's Fast Evolution and the Sci-Fi Reality Gap • Closing Thoughts: Tech Community, Listener Feedback, and the Future of Security NowHosts: Steve Gibson, Leo Laporte, Richard Campbell, and Paul ThurrottDownload or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.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.Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: material.security bitwarden.com/twit XBOW.com hoxhunt.com/securitynow threatlocker.com/twit