SN 1024: Don't Blame Signal - The Real Story Behind the TM SGNL Breach

Security Now (Audio)

Leo Laporte

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

4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 166 minutes

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Summary

Microsoft to officially abandon passwords and support their deletion.
Meta's RayBan smart glasses weaken their privacy terms.
30% of Microsoft code is now being written by AI.
Google says prying Chrome from it will damage its security.
Nearly 1,000 six-year-old eCommerce backdoors spring to life.
eM Client moves to version 10.3
A bunch of terrific listener feedback creates talking points.
A little-known, insecure message archiving service comes to light.

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0:00.0	It's time for security. Now, Steve Gibson is here for the 1K episode. He's very excited about that.
0:06.5	Coming up, Microsoft has a solution, a plan even to get rid of passwords. We'll talk about
0:13.2	AI code generation. And then the signal controversy, turns out the National Security Advisor was using a kind of signal knockoff that has been hacked.
0:25.6	Steve explains all of that coming up next on Security Now.
0:31.4	Podcasts you love.
0:33.2	From people you trust.
0:35.7	This is Twitter.
0:41.4	Thank you. from people you trust. This is Twitter. This is Security Now with Steve Gibson.
0:44.3	Episode 1024 recorded Tuesday, May 6th, 2025.
0:50.3	Don't blame Signal.
0:52.6	It's time for Security Now, the show we take a look at your privacy your security
0:57.4	online and we learn every week so much about what's going on in the world out there thanks to this
1:03.6	guy right here mr steve gibson of the gibson research corporation our security guru hi ste. Leo, it is great to be with you again.
1:13.1	I was telling you before we began recording that today's show almost has more significance,
1:19.9	more salience for me than did, well, of course, okay, the 1,000th show, because we were hearing
1:26.6	so much about 9-99 for many years, that was going to be it because I, you know, my technology didn't do four digits.
1:33.6	But you're not a decimal guy either.
1:36.0	I'm not.
1:36.9	I'm not.
1:37.2	Ten fingers, ten toes kind of guy.
1:40.0	No.
1:40.5	So, episode 1024.
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