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SN 1065: Attestation - Code Signing Gets Tough

Security Now (Audio)

Leo Laporte

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

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 161 minutes

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Summary

How secure are your Chrome extensions and certificate signings really? This episode pulls back the curtain on a massive spyware discovery and exposes the convoluted hoops developers must jump through to prove their identity in 2026.

  • Websites can place high demands upon limited CPU resources.
  • Microsoft appears to back away from its security commitment.
  • What's Windows 11 26H1 and where do I get it.
  • Chrome 145 brings Device Bound Session Credentials.
  • More countries are moving to ban underage social media use.
  • The return of Roskomnadzor.
  • Discord to require proof of adulthood for adult content.
  • Might you still be using WinRAR 7.12 -- I was.
  • Paragon's Graphite can definitely spy on all instant messaging.
  • 30 malicious Chrome Extensions.
  • 287 Chrome extensions from spying on 37.4 million users.
  • The first malicious Outlook add-in steals 4000 user's credentials.
  • Some AI "vibe" coding thoughts.
  • What I just went through to obtain a new code signing certificate

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1065-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 lots to talk about. A big change to Chrome,

0:07.7

bringing something called device-bound session credentials to your browser. Steve's going to talk about

0:13.4

how you can prove you are who you say you are when it comes to your code signing. And bad news

0:20.2

about more than 200 Chrome extensions that were spying on more than 34

0:25.1

million people that more coming up next on security now podcasts you love from people you

0:34.6

trust this is Twit.

0:41.6

This is Security Now with Steve Gibson.

0:44.5

Episode 16, 2005, recorded Tuesday, February 17, 26.

0:51.1

Attestation.

0:52.7

It's time for Security Now, the show we cover the latest in security, privacy,

0:57.7

how things work, sci-fi, and whatever else this guy here is up to. Mr. Steve Gibson, welcome.

1:06.7

I do try to keep us mostly on track, though, you know, the world is not monotonic.

1:13.7

So, you know, lots of things are going on.

1:17.4

You're a polyglot, a polyglot, you know everything.

1:22.1

So it's nice to talk about all these things.

1:25.1

Certainly don't know everything.

1:26.3

I do.

1:27.1

There are things I know a lot about and things that I'm interested in learning more about. But yeah, I'm definitely curious. I just from my first moments of awareness, I wanted to know how things work. That's what I want to know the important mindset. Yeah. Yeah.

1:45.8

And so I lost my fear of, you know, looking inside to go, oh, look, that little cam goes

1:53.1

this way and that pushes that lever over here and that causes that to drop down. And, you know,

1:58.1

I was very good at the game, the board game mouse trap for that reason

2:02.4

back in our youth. Okay, the elephant in the room is the 28 page security research paper that

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