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 1077: A Browser AI API? - End of Bug Bounties?
Google is sneaking a massive 4.7GB AI model into Chrome, and Mozilla is fighting back as the future of browsers threatens to turn into an AI arms race. Find out what's really happening behind this push and why it's setting off alarm bells across the web.
- Hackers AI-code a portal, forget to add authentication.
- The UK's NCSC issues a Mythos warning. Where's CISA?
- Another (of many) Linux local privilege escalations.
- AI may be spelling the end of bug bounties.
- Anthropic releases "Claude Security" mini-Mythos.
- ChatGPT gets very serious about login security.
- Syncthing's SyncTrayzor v1 abandoned; v2 created.
- Google drops an AI API into Chrome; Mozilla objects
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1077-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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