SN 1031: How Salt Typhoon Gets In - What "AI" Really Means

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Leo Laporte

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

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🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 181 minutes

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Summary

China's Salt Typhoon claims another victim (or two).
State healthcare portals are tracking and leaking. No kidding.
Apple adopts FIDO's Passkeys and other credentials transport.
Facebook gets Passkey logon.
TikTok continues ticking for at least another 90 days.
Canadian telco admits they were infiltrated by Salt Typhoon.
Microsoft to remove unwanted (and hopefully unneeded) hardware drivers.
The Austrian government legislates court-warranted message decryption.
I (Steve) finally get full clarity on what today's "AI" means.
A deep dive into the Salt Typhoon's operation and how they got in

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1031-Notes.pdf

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0:00.0	It's time for security now. Steve Gibson is here. We are going to talk about, as usual,
0:05.6	some terrifying security issues on the internet. Your state health care portal may be leaking
0:11.8	information about you to data brokers and others. We'll talk about Facebook getting a PASki login,
0:20.2	Apple adopting the new PASCII portability, which is great.
0:23.9	And then a deep dive into how Chinese government hackers got into our phone system.
0:30.3	Turns out there's one American company that's at fault.
0:33.1	Steve has the Deets next on Security Now.
0:37.9	Podcasts you love.
0:39.7	From people you trust.
0:42.4	This is Twit.
0:47.9	This is Security Now with Steve Gibson, episode 131,ed Tuesday, June 24th, 2025.
0:56.8	How Salt Typhoon gets in.
0:59.9	It's time for security now.
1:02.0	Oh, the show you wait for all week long.
1:04.4	Every Tuesday, we get together with this guy right here, Mr. Steve Gibson, and we learn
1:09.8	about all the nasty, horrible, terrible, no good, very bad things that are happening on the internet. Hello, Mr. Steve Gibson, and we learn about all the nasty, horrible, terrible, no good,
1:12.7	very bad things that are happening on the internet. Hello, Steve. And ever so often,
1:17.5	other stuff. Yeah, and all the other stuff too. That's great to be with you for episode
1:21.9	131 for this last episode of, wait, is this no No, the 31st, July. This is June 24th. Yeah. So the next one will be
1:34.5	June 30. No, it'll be July 1st. Right. Because 30 days, half September, April, June,
1:39.3	and November. Yep. All the rest have 31 except for February, which is all messed.
1:44.8	I can never remember the rest of that rhyme.
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