SN 1033: Going on the Offensive - The Digital Arms Race

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Leo Laporte

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

4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 185 minutes

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Summary

Another Israeli spyware vendor surfaces.
Win11 to delete restore points more quickly.
The EU accelerates its plans to abandon Microsoft Azure.
The EU sets timelines for Post-Quantum crypto adoption.
Russia to create a massive IMEI database.
Canada and the UK create the "Common Good Cyber Fund".
U.S. states crack down on Bitcoin ATMs amid growing scams.
Congressional staffers cannot use WhatsApp on gov devices.
LibXML2 and the problems with commercial use of OSS.
A(nother) remote code execution vulnerability in WinRAR.
Have-I-Been-Pwned gets a cool data visualization site.
How is ransomware getting in?
Windows to offer "safe" non-kernel endpoint security?
Proactive age verification coming to porn sites. How?
Canada (also) says "bye bye" to Hikvision.
Germany will be banning DeekSeek. The whole EU may follow.
Cloudflare throttled in Russia?
What must the U.S. do to compete in global exploit acquisition?

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0:00.0	It's time for security now. Steve Gibson is here. We'll talk about zero days. And what we're doing
0:06.9	is the United States to stockpile them and what Israeli companies are doing using their zero days to
0:12.8	attack journalists in Italy. Also, now that the Supreme Court has decided, it's okay to have
0:19.1	age verification, how will that impact the
0:22.1	internet? That and a lot more coming up next on Security Now.
0:28.1	Podcasts you love from people you trust. This is Twitter.
0:37.9	This is Security Now with Steve Gibson, episode 133, recorded Tuesday, July 8th, 2025.
0:47.0	Going on the Offensive.
0:49.4	It's time for security now, the show we cover the latest in security privacy how computers work the
0:54.8	greatest science fiction in the world and whatever else steve gibson is into he is a polymath
1:00.9	and we all give you the salute live long and prosper never knows we're all counting on it i'm gonna
1:07.5	have to bring you up to speed soon.
1:11.7	What's that?
1:12.8	Oh, what's that?
1:14.9	That's a little buzzer?
1:20.8	That's the evolution of the device that you and Lisa experimented with. We were putting electrolyte gel on our temples.
1:24.6	Your forehead.
1:25.7	And on our forehead.
1:26.6	No, I didn't ever do the tongue with you I do that
1:29.1	with and then and then oh cool I know Lori uses this right in her practice uh she does I couldn't
1:39.8	sleep if I didn't it's just completely resolved my, I need something to help me sleep. I've
1:45.2	done everything under the sun. And I meant to ask you, how's the GLP1? It's going, it's going well.
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