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The episode discusses how AI is transforming Capture the Flag competitions and the implications for cybersecurity.
AI vulnerability discovery just upended the legendary Capture the Flag competitions, leaving top hackers sidelined while algorithms dominate the scoreboard. Hear why one seasoned researcher says the entire game is over for humans. As expected, UnFiOS devices are under attack. CISA commands federal agencies to update Drupal. Can the largest botnet ever, be killed. Defender endpoint can cutoff a PC from the network. Charter Communications big account leak. Chrome moves device-bound session cookies from beta. Anthropic to release Mythos shortly. cURL and Daniel Stenberg. IBM & RedHat commit to fixing open source with AI. LOTS of terrific listener feedback this week. AI spells the end of a terrific source of training Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1081-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…
People in this episode
Hosts: Steve Gibson, Leo Laporte
Topics covered
- AI vulnerability discovery
- Capture the Flag competitions
- cybersecurity
- federal agency updates
- botnets
- listener feedback
- open source
Keywords
- AI
- Capture the Flag
- cybersecurity
- CISA
- botnet
- Drupal
- open source
- listener feedback
- UnFiOS
- Defender
Sponsors
Bitwarden, Hoxhunt, Zscaler, Material Security
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: CISA, Charter Communications, IBM, RedHat
Products: UnFiOS, Defender, cURL, Mythos, Spinrite 6
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