About this episode
The episode discusses a newly uncovered NSA rootkit and its implications for cyberwarfare, along with various technology news and listener feedback.
What if your engineering calculations secretly sabotaged your nation's best efforts? This week, we reveal how a newly uncovered 21-year-old NSA rootkit quietly corrupted scientific research in hostile states and why it changes everything you think you know about cyberwarfare. Bitwarden's CLI hit with a supply-chain attack. Commercial routers in Iran fail shortly before the war. Meta logging all employee activity to train replacement AI. GRC's DNS Benchmark Release 5. Two miscellaneous AI thoughts. A bunch of terrific listener feedback. Unraveling the diabolical history of "fast16.sys" Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1076-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now . 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 . Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit…
People in this episode
Hosts: Steve Gibson, Leo Laporte
Topics covered
- cyberwarfare
- NSA rootkit
- supply-chain attack
- AI
- listener feedback
- scientific research
Keywords
- NSA
- rootkit
- cyberwarfare
- Bitwarden
- Meta
- AI
- listener feedback
- fast16.sys
Sponsors
doppel.com, threatlocker.com, material.security, cyberhoot.com, guardsquare.com
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: NSA, Bitwarden, Meta, GRC, Club TWiT, Spinrite
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