SN 1078: DigiCert does it right - Hugging Face Under Fire
Security Now (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 161 minutes
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Summary
DigiCert's latest security mishap triggered not just a scramble behind the scenes, but a cascading crisis that briefly wiped trust from millions of Windows systems. Find out how a single support slip, followed by Microsoft's heavy-handed response, left critical infrastructures exposed.
- The FCC decides router firmware updates are useful.
- Netgear applies for and gets a full FCC pass.
- AI uncovers a 21-year old critical FreeBSD RCE.
- What was behind that Let's Encrypt outage.
- AI model repositories are overflowing with malware.
- The CISA 2015 info-sharing act is being renewed.
- Edge leaves ALL usernames and passwords in the clear.
- An examination of DigiCert's breach and their response
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1078-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. The FCC has backed down a little bit, and that's good news for router manufacturers. |
| 0:08.5 | AI has found a 21-year-old critical flaw in, well, the most secure operating system I know about. |
| 0:15.8 | We'll talk about the let's-encrypt outage and then how DigiCert responded to its recent breach. |
| 0:22.2 | Steve said A plus to DigiCert. |
| 0:24.5 | That's coming up next on Security Now. |
| 0:29.5 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:31.2 | From people you trust. |
| 0:33.8 | This is Twit. |
| 0:39.1 | This is Security Now with Steve Gibson. |
| 0:41.7 | Episode 178, recorded Tuesday, May 12th, 2026. |
| 0:47.4 | Digisert does it right. |
| 0:50.0 | It's time for security now. |
| 0:51.8 | Let's show we cover your security, your privacy, and how computers work, and maybe a little sci-fi and vitamin D thrown in with this guy right here. |
| 0:58.8 | Because basically, this is the show where Steve talks about the stuff he cares most about. |
| 1:04.1 | Hello, Steve Gibson. |
| 1:05.3 | Which I'm not sure if it was self-selecting, but our listeners tend to agree. |
| 1:09.9 | Yes. |
| 1:10.1 | So they're like, I mean, I'm getting vitamin |
| 1:12.8 | D email and sleep supplement questions. And so I know that our listeners are, you know, focused. |
| 1:19.5 | And Steve, we should add coffee to this, because Steve is, as we well know, a five-shot venty latte drinker. |
| 1:26.5 | There it is in the giant mug I had some wonderful coffee |
| 1:30.8 | and Kona they grow Kona coffee on the side of the volcano that's how they named it actually |
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