SN 1014: FREEDOM Administration Login - Apple's UK Privacy Showdown, $1.5 Billion Crypto Heist

Security Now (Audio)

Leo Laporte

Cyber Crime, Malware, Technology, Encryption, Steve Gibson, Security, Hacking, Twit, Spyware, Leo Laporte

4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 161 minutes

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Summary

Apple disables Advanced Data Protection for new UK users.
Paying ransoms is not as cut and dried as we might imagine.
Elon Musk's "X" social media blocks "Signal.me" links.
Spain's soccer league blocks Cloudflare and causes a mess.
Two new (and rare) vulnerabilities discovered in OpenSSH.
The U.S. seems unable to evict Chinese attackers from its Telecom systems.
What are those Chinese "Salt Typhoon" hackers doing to get in?
The largest (by far) cryptocurrency heist in history occurred Friday.
Ex-NSA head says the U.S. is falling behind on the cyber front lines.
We have the winner (and a good one) replacement term for "backdoor".
A look at a pathetic access control system that begs to be hacked (and will be).

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1014-Notes.pdf

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0:00.0	It's time for security now. Steve Gibson is here. We're going to talk about Apple.
0:06.4	I don't know, giving in on the UK request for a backdoor. Maybe they were playing 3D chess.
0:15.4	Steve has some opinions. We'll also talk about why it might be illegal to pay that ransomware, how the Spanish
0:22.9	soccer league is blocking cloud flare and causing quite a bit of a mess, and then why your
0:29.6	apartment building access control system might not be all that secure.
0:33.9	It's all coming up next.
0:35.5	It's security now.
0:39.3	Podcasts you love. From people you trust.
0:43.7	This is Twitter.
0:49.0	This is Security Now with Steve Gibson. Episode 2014,014, recorded Tuesday, February 25th, 2025.
0:58.3	Freedom Administration Login.
1:01.4	It's time for security now.
1:03.8	The show will we protect you and your privacy and your security online.
1:07.5	Did I say we, pardon me.
1:09.6	He protects you. Mr. Steve Gibson Gibson the man of the hour you are
1:14.8	inseparable from the podcast from the network from you know yeah but in this case
1:19.9	it will not go on without you I am a member of the audience in this case I listen to Steve and
1:25.8	I hope I hope you all do. What's coming up this week?
1:29.1	So I stumbled upon a, it started off as just a regular sort of like security announcement, but the more I looked into it, the more astonishingly, wow, too much caffeine,
1:49.4	the more I was astonished.
1:51.4	Too many adverbs.
1:52.6	That anybody could be producing a system like this, and it is something that our listeners are going to be able to experience for
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