SN 1061: More GhostPosting - RAM Crisis Hits Firewalls
Security Now (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 164 minutes
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Summary
Soaring RAM prices are about to hit your security gear where it hurts, and the fallout could change what's protecting your network. Find out who's about to pay and why the AI gold rush is reshaping more than just your server specs.
- RAM pricing to affect enterprise firewall equipment.
- Anthropic provides sizeable support to Python Foundation.
- The FTC clamps down on GM's secret sale of driving data.
- "ANCHOR" replaces "CIPAC" for industry-government sharing.
- Germany planning to legislate total access to global data.
- Grubhub becomes the latest ShinyHunters extortion victim.
- Let's Encrypt's 6-Day certs are available to everyone.
- Iran planning to permanently take itself off the Internet.
- HD Tune before and after a SpinRite Level 3 refresh.
- Some great listener feedback, and
- More trouble from GhostPoster malicious browser extensions
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1061-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 RAM pricing. We're going to talk about Claude code and vibe coding. |
| 0:10.0 | The six-day certificates are now out from Let's Encrypt. And yes, it's the return of ghost poster, malicious browser extensions you need to watch out for. |
| 0:20.7 | All that coming up next on Security Now. |
| 0:25.5 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:27.3 | From people you trust. |
| 0:29.9 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:35.2 | This is Security Now with Steve Gibson. |
| 0:37.8 | Episode 161 recorded Tuesday, January 20th, 2026. |
| 0:43.0 | More ghost posting. |
| 0:45.2 | It's time for security now. |
| 0:47.1 | The show we cover your security, your privacy, how computers work, the best sci-fi, vitamins, magnesium, and more with this man right here mr stephen gibson hello |
| 0:58.4 | stein am i bored or what leo no you're what you are is a polymath that's the word you have many |
| 1:06.9 | diverse interests and you are a very quick learner and you like sharing what you've learned |
| 1:13.5 | with us and that's we're grateful that's i have to say i like that probably that sure fits i'll |
| 1:20.1 | tell i'll go yeah well i was always an enthusiast i would like get really excited about something |
| 1:25.7 | for six months and then lose interest and move on to the next thing. |
| 1:30.1 | You're a little bit more, thank goodness, devoted. |
| 1:33.9 | A little less, what is that? |
| 1:35.2 | Is that ADHD or ADD or do they have some initials for that? |
| 1:39.9 | There's probably some diagnosis. |
| 1:41.9 | I'm sure there is. |
| 1:43.0 | We're all on the spectrum somewhere. |
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