SN 1051: Amazon Sues Perplexity - Nevada's Ransomware Comeback

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Leo Laporte

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

4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 164 minutes

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Summary

Amazon is taking Perplexity AI to court over its agentic browser that shops on your behalf, raising urgent questions about who controls your online buying experience when bots do the heavy lifting.

FFmpeg teaching assembly language for performance.
The state of Nevada recovers after not paying ransom.
A "rounding error" nets a clever attacker $128 million.
Why would Chrome decide to start form-filling driver's licenses.
The UK's six major telecom providers to block number spoofing.
XSLT support being removed from browsers. Will anyone notice.
Firefox introduced paid support options for organizations.
Russia continues to fight against non-Russian Internet.
Google acquires another Internet security company (Wiz).
The EU to finally fix their cookie permission mistake.
More countries drop Microsoft office for open choices.
More countries question and examine Chinese made buses.
Microsoft discovers some information leakage from LLMs.
What does Amazon's lawsuit against Perplexity's agents mean for next-generation browsers

Show Notes: https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1051-Notes.pdf

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0:00.0	It's time for security now. Steve Gibson is here. FFMPEG says you ought to be using assembly language.
0:07.1	Steve says, right on. Why would Chrome, the Chrome browser, start to offer to fill in your
0:13.7	driver's licenses? Steve has a theory. Microsoft discovers a wild way you can get information out of LLMs. And finally, Steve
0:22.7	takes a look at the fact that Amazon is suing perplexity because they're using their agentic
0:28.2	browser to buy things on Amazon. What's that all about? That and a whole lot more. Coming up next
0:33.7	on Security Now. Podcasts you love.
0:39.0	From people you trust.
0:41.7	This is Twitter.
0:47.0	This is Security Now with Steve Gibson, episode 151.
0:51.7	Recorded Tuesday, November 11th, 2025.
0:55.1	Amazon Sue's Perplexity.
0:58.4	It's time once again for Security Now, the show you wait, I wait, all week for.
1:04.1	Every Tuesday, we get together with this guy right here, Mr. Steve Gibson, to find out
1:08.9	what's new in the world of security. More than 100,000 people listen every week, Mr. Steve Gibson, to find out what's new in the world of security.
1:11.6	More than 100,000 people listen every week, Steve.
1:15.6	And I wait for it as much as they do.
1:18.2	What is going to happen this week?
1:22.6	Well, let me guess, ransomware, security flaws.
1:30.3	Actually, you've got a story, your big story is a little different than the usual, but I'll let you tease what's coming up.
1:33.9	Well, it is because it's sort of the, well, if you had three feet, it would be the other shoe.
1:41.4	It would be the, it was the shoe after the other shoe. Yeah.
1:46.1	After you run out of your two feet, there's you're still holding this shoe and then you
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