SN 961: Bitlocker: Chipped or Cracked? - Honeypots, Toothbrush Botnet, Bitlocker Cracked

Security Now (Audio)

Leo Laporte

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

4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

Toothbrush Botnet
"There are too many damn Honeypots!"
Remotely accessing your home network securely
Going passwordless as an ecommerce site
Facebook "old password" reminders
Browsers on iOS
More UPnP Issues
A password for every website?
"Free" accounts
Keeping phones plugged in
Running your own email server in 2024
iOS app sizes
SpinRite 6.1 running on an iMac
SpinRite update
Bitlocker's encryption cracked in minutes

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-961-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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0:00.0	It's time for security now.
0:01.0	Steve Gibson is here, lots to talk about.
0:03.7	Yeah, that 3 million toothbrush, D-D-D-D-D-D-D-Sattac thing, maybe that wasn't exactly how it happened.
0:10.3	Steve has the details on that. Why is password security really just
0:15.8	security theater? Yikes. And then we're going to talk about what probably many of
0:20.9	you heard about the the bit locker hack.
0:25.1	Is it something you should worry about and what can you do about it?
0:27.4	Steve's got a very simple fix.
0:29.4	You'll want to listen to this episode for sure.
0:31.2	Security now is next.
0:33.0	Podcasts you love.
0:37.0	From people you trust.
0:39.0	This is Twit.
0:48.0	This is security now with Steve Gibson. Episode 961, recorded Tuesday, February 13th, 2024.
0:55.0	Bitlocker, chipped or cracked.
0:58.6	Security now is brought to you by,
1:00.6	Delete me.
1:01.4	Have you ever searched for your name online? Oh, don't. It's a nightmare. You will not
1:06.7	like to see how much of your personal information is there in public. That's why you need delete me. Not just for your own personal use. It does reduce
1:16.6	the risk of identity fraud or credit card fraud, robocalls, harassment, unwanted communications, but it's also good for
1:23.4	cyber security in fact if if you asked me every executive every manager in your
1:29.9	business should have a delete me account. We found out the hard way before we
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