About this episode

The episode discusses a 21-year-old NSA rootkit that has implications for cyberwarfare and includes various technology-related topics.

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
• GRC
• DNS Benchmark

Sponsors

doppel.com, threatlocker.com, material.security, cyberhoot.com, guardsquare.com

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NSA, Bitwarden, Meta, GRC, Club TWiT

Products: Spinrite 6

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