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TWiT 10 Episodes Jul 21, 2026

Cybersecurity guru Steve Gibson joins Leo Laporte every Tuesday to break down the latest cybercrime and hacking stories, offering a deep understanding of what's happening and how to protect yourself and your business. Security Now is a must listen for security professionals every week. New episodes every Tuesday.

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SN 1088: A Nefarious Novel Use for AI - Ransomware Negotiations Go High-Tech Jul 21, 2026 2:47:29 Cybercriminals are harnessing AI not to break in, but to make sense of their stolen loot and increase their leverage in multi-million dollar ransomware heists. This episode unpacks how AI is now turbocharging extortion and negotiations on the dark side. The "bone crushing" didn't happen this month. Revisiting and inspecting July's Patch Tuesday. A widespread and worrisome flaw in OpenSSL. Cla

SN 1087: HalluSquatting, GhostApproval & GitLost - Patch Tuesday Breaks Records Jul 14, 2026 2:48:51 AI is rewriting the rules of cybersecurity, and this week, massive government and private sector moves show just how quickly the stakes are rising. Find out how regulators, attackers, and defenders are all scrambling to keep up as vulnerabilities surface at record speed. Europe warns their largest banks to prepare for AI attack. The EU launches an action plan for AI Cybersecurity. China consid

SN 1086: The Apex Agentic Adversary - Visual Prompt Injection Strikes Jul 7, 2026 2:53:23 From the sudden retirement of Internet pioneer Vint Cerf to the unstoppable advance of "apex agentic adversaries," get a front-row seat to the unfolding security revolution and its massive real-world stakes. Why Fable5's re-release has disappointed. Opera becomes the first browser to offer "Paste Protect." Microsoft BlueHammer exploit is "hammering" systems. Industry legend (TCP creator) Vint

SN 1085: A SOTA State-Sponsored Campaign - AI's New Superpower: Loop Engineering Jun 30, 2026 2:50:15 AI is now uncovering and fixing thousands of hidden software bugs faster than humans can keep up, but not everyone is playing by the rules. Find out how state-sponsored attackers and careless disclosures are turning the cybersecurity playbook upside down. Win10's popularity forces another year of free updates. CISA directs all federal agencies to update their UniFi OS devices. CISA gave federa

SN 1084: The Residential Proxy Threat - Malicious Proxies in Your Living Room Jun 23, 2026 2:47:32 A flood of everyday gadgets, from cheap streaming boxes to digital photo frames, are being secretly conscripted into global proxy networks and used to mask major cyberattacks—possibly even targeting your own home network. Worries of AI-power cyberattacks are spreading. Mythos "missed some" important vulnerabilities in Firefox. Every recent patch Tuesday Nightmare Eclipse has struck. What now?

SN 1083: Patch Tuesday à la AI - Arch Linux Repo Under Siege Jun 16, 2026 2:36:20 This episode unpacks the jaw-dropping surge in vulnerabilities unearthed by AI, revealing how Microsoft shattered its own patch records while adversaries and defenders race to outpace each other. The conversation gets real about whether AI is fixing our broken software or just making attacks easier for everyone. Rootkits found in more than 400 ArchLinux User Repository packages. The US governme

SN 1082: The Malicious Use of AI - Anthropic's Red Team Report Jun 9, 2026 2:37:27 Discover how Anthropic's secretive red team and the MITRE ATT&CK framework are mapping the chilling rise of malicious AI use, revealing cyber threats that now move faster than defenders can respond. Was a U.S. law firm right to pay a $20 million ransom. Could Cisco have yet another SD-WAN 0-day in the wild. Why is it so difficult to author secure PHP code. Teens use "WeedHack" to spy and

SN 1081: AI Captured the Flag - Personal AI: Productivity Superpower or Privacy Threat? Jun 2, 2026 3:19:51 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

SN 1080: Vulnerability Debt Repayment - Will Mythos Change Cybersecurity Forever? May 26, 2026 2:44:00 Mozilla found 271 unknown Firefox vulnerabilities in days using AI—bugs that millions of automated test runs had missed for years. Steve Gibson argues this isn't a crisis. It's the industry finally paying down decades of security debt, and for the first time, defenders may have the advantage. Cisco meets Mythos Can the aging CVE system survive AI Patch deployment latency in the AI age MSFT's

SN 1079: Daybreak and Codename MDASH - Microsoft's Edge Password Blunder May 19, 2026 2:51:51 OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google are racing to unleash next-gen AI that hunts for software vulnerabilities and hacks at scale. This episode explores how these advancements could shake up everything we thought we knew about cybersecurity. Microsoft rethinks Edge's "intended behavior" after it gets press. Chaotic Eclipse hacker strikes again with a Bitlocker bypass. Google's threat analysis group d

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