meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Security Now (Audio)

SN 936: When Heuristics Backfire - OpenSUSE, SanDisk and Western Digital, 8Base, TSSHOCK

Security Now (Audio)

Leo Laporte

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

4.62.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 133 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

  • OpenSUSE goes private.
  • Android to get satellite comms.
  • SanDisk and Western Digital in hot water.
  • You're asking for it: YouTube children's privacy.
  • Whoopsie! 8Base.
  • Where the money is.
  • The TSSHOCK vulnerability.
  • BitForge.
  • A Quantum resilient security key.
  • Removed Chrome extensions notifications.
  • HTTPS by default?
  • WinRAR 6.23 final released.
  • Closing the Loop.
  • When Heuristics Backfire.

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-936-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.

Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page.

For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.

Sponsors:

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

It's time for security. Now Steve Gibson is here. He's going to talk about the Linux

0:04.1

distro that's being bought by private equity. Oh no! We'll also talk about what's

0:10.1

going on with those Sandisk and Western digital SSDs and why you should not buy

0:14.6

them and then a fascinating case study of a problem Microsoft has. Maybe you've

0:20.2

heard about it with setting server clocks to ridiculous values and maybe

0:27.9

why it's happening. Steve does a deep dive that's fascinating all that more

0:31.3

coming up next on Security Now. Podcasts you love. From people you trust. This is

0:41.5

Twit.

0:45.7

There's a security now with Steve Gibson. Episode 936 recorded Tuesday, August 22nd,

0:52.8

2023, when heuristics backfired. This episode of Security Now is brought to you

1:00.2

by Panoptica. Reduce the complexity protecting your workloads and

1:04.9

applications in a multi-cloud environment. Panoptica provides comprehensive

1:09.4

cloud workload protection integrated with API security to protect the

1:14.2

entire application life cycle. Learn more about Panoptica at Panoptica. app. And by

1:21.2

collide. Collide is a device trust solution for companies with Octa. Collide

1:27.0

ensures if a device isn't trusted and secured it can't log on to your cloud

1:31.9

apps. Visit collide.com slash security now to book an on-demo demo today. And

1:38.2

by delete me reclaim your privacy by removing personal data from online

1:44.1

sources protect yourself and reduce the risk of fraud spam cyber security

1:49.6

threats and more by going to join deleteme.com slash twit and using the code

1:55.6

twit we're 20% off. It's time for Security Now. The show we cover the latest

2:00.7

news from the security eco sphere with this guy right here. Mr. Steve Gibson

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Leo Laporte, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Leo Laporte and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.