SN 1018: The Quantum Threat – ESP32 Backdoor Update, RCS E2EE
- The dangers of doing things you don’t understand.
- Espressif responds to the claims of an ESP32 backdoor.
- A widely leveraged mistake Microsoft stubbornly refuses to correct.
- A disturbingly simple remote takeover of Apache Tomcat servers.
- A 10/10 vulnerability affecting some ASUS, ASRock and HPE motherboards.
- Google snapped up another cloud security firm but paid a price!
- RCS messaging to soon get full end-to-end encryption (done right!).
- How did an AI Crypto Chatbot lose $105,000? …and what is an AI Crypto Chatbot?
- Looks like Oracle may take stewardship of TikTok to keep it in-country.
- Whoops! 23andMe is sinking — don’t let them take your genetics with them!
- The White House says “the cyber guys should stay!”
- AI project failure rates are on the rise. Anyone surprised?
- Listener feedback, and a very interesting update on just how looming is the threat from quantum computing?
Show Notes – https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1018-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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