Steve Gibson, the man who coined the term spyware and created the first anti-spyware program, creator of SpinRite and ShieldsUP, discusses the hot topics in security today with Leo Laporte. Records live every Tuesday at 4:30pm Eastern / 1:30pm Pacific / 21:30 UTC.
SN 1076: FAST16.SYS - Unmasking the NSA's Most Diabolical Digital Sabotage
What if your engineering calculations secretly sabotaged your nation's best efforts? This week, we reveal how a newly uncovered 21-year-old NSA rootkit quietly corrupted scientific research in hostile states and why it changes everything you think you know about cyberwarfare.
- Bitwarden's CLI hit with a supply-chain attack.
- Commercial routers in Iran fail shortly before the war.
- Meta logging all employee activity to train replacement AI.
- GRC's DNS Benchmark Release 5.
- Two miscellaneous AI thoughts.
- A bunch of terrific listener feedback.
- Unraveling the diabolical history of "fast16.sys"
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1076-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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