SN 1064: Least Privilege - Cybercrime Goes Pro
Security Now (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2026
⏱️ 158 minutes
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Summary
From EU fines that never get paid to cyber warfare grounding missiles mid-battle, this week's episode uncovers the untold stories and real-world consequences shaping today's digital defenses.
- How is the EU's GDPR fine collection going.
- Western democracies are getting serious about offensive cybercrime.
- The powerful cyber component of the Midnight Hammer operation.
- Signs of psychological dependence upon OpenAI's GPT-4o chatbot.
- CISA orders government agencies to unplug end-of-support devices.
- How to keep Windows from annoying us after an upgrade.
- What is OpenClaw, how safe is it to use, what does it mean.
- Another listener uses AI to completely code an app.
- Coinbase suffers another insider breach. What can be done
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1064-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for security now. Steve Gibson is here. We have things to talk about, including the security of OpenClaw. |
| 0:07.3 | I'll give you a hint. There is none. We'll also talk about using AI decode apps, the GDPR fine collection process, and the most powerful cyber component of the Midnight Hammer operation. |
| 0:21.9 | We're talking about cyber offense, offense with Steve Gibson next on Security Now. |
| 0:30.3 | Podcasts you love from people you trust. |
| 0:34.8 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:40.3 | This is Twit. This is Security Now with Steve Gibson. |
| 0:42.3 | Episode 164 recorded Tuesday, February 10th, 2026. |
| 0:48.3 | Least privilege. |
| 0:50.3 | It's time for Security Now, the show where we talk about your security your privacy |
| 0:55.6 | stay in safe online science fiction vitamin d whatever suits this fellow right here then |
| 1:02.8 | man of the hour mr steve gibson of grc dot com hi steve mostly things that concern our |
| 1:09.1 | security and privacy and you, computer tech and things. |
| 1:13.9 | I had a, I got an email from someone saying, you know, I'm in a corporate IT environment and in charge |
| 1:21.2 | of security. And you guys are like talking about AI a lot. And I thought, well, that's true, but it's what's |
| 1:29.7 | happening right now. And it's writing code. And we don't know about the, you know, the security |
| 1:37.2 | implications of that. You know, your comment about, you know, last week, AI would never write a buffer |
| 1:43.8 | overflow. While that's true, |
| 1:45.8 | we also don't know that it would consider all of the tricky things that the bad guys can get up to. |
| 1:51.4 | So, I mean, it's, you know, there's a lot happening. So anyway, I just wanted to assure people, |
| 1:57.3 | I mean, I've got some conversation about AI this week. But, you know, we always end up |
| 2:02.4 | coming back to our central theme. You know, for a while there, we were talking about ransomware all the |
| 2:08.3 | time. Well, it turned out to be really important. You know, I mean, it was what was happening. And then I, |
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