SN 991: RAMBO - Cloned YubiKeys, Telegram vs. Signal, French Elevators, Unix Time
Security Now (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 10 September 2024
⏱️ 140 minutes
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Summary
- Offer to uninstall Recall was a bug, not a feature
- YubiKeys can be cloned
- Miscellany
- Is WhatsApp secure?
- Telegram vs Signal
- French elevators
- Freezing your credit
- The Quiet Canine
- Unix time
- Bobiverse book 5
- Exodus: The Achemedes Engine
- Watching SpinRite
- RAMBO
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-991-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Mikah Sargent
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on, security now, I'm Micah Sergeant Subbing in for Leo Leport as he is on vacation, and we have a great show ahead. |
| 0:08.7 | Steve tells us all about how Yubikis can be cloned and how maybe that's not something you have to worry about but I mean if you |
| 0:17.7 | are you know a leader of a nation state maybe it is something you need to be |
| 0:21.6 | concerned about. |
| 0:22.6 | Plus, we talk about a lot of listener feedback, |
| 0:26.3 | including whether WhatsApp is more secure than telegram. |
| 0:31.1 | What is going on with elevators in Paris? |
| 0:34.0 | And of course, we cover the very interesting Rambo |
| 0:39.0 | and attack that involves air-gapped systems, special encoding, and the ability to read RF signals |
| 0:49.2 | coming from RAM. |
| 0:51.9 | Very interesting stuff coming up on this episode of Security Now. |
| 0:55.2 | Podcasts you love from people you trust. This is Twit. |
| 1:05.0 | This is security now with Steve Gibson and me, Micah Sergeant, episode 991, recorded Tuesday, September 10, |
| 1:16.5 | 2024. |
| 1:17.5 | Rambo. |
| 1:20.3 | It's time for security now, the cyber security show that you tune into every week so you can |
| 1:27.3 | panic and feel anxiety, but then feel better because Steve Gibson is here to help you feel better. |
| 1:33.3 | I am Micah Sergeant subbing in for Leo La Port this week who is enjoying a nice time away on vacation, |
| 1:40.9 | and I am pleased to be joined by the true star of this show Steve |
| 1:45.9 | T Gibson. Hello Steve. |
| 1:48.7 | Hello Mike it's great to be working with you this week and on top of the normal level of anxiety that |
| 1:55.5 | this show tends to induce today's podcast is titled Rambo. So if you were thinking well we're just going to have a calm little nothing |
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