• SN 1017: Is YOUR System Vulnerable to RowHammer? - Telegram's Crypto, Twitter Outage, FBI Warning

  • Mar 19 2025
  • Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
  • Podcast

SN 1017: Is YOUR System Vulnerable to RowHammer? - Telegram's Crypto, Twitter Outage, FBI Warning

  • Summary

    • An analysis of Telegram Messenger's crypto.
    • A beautiful statement of the goal of modern crypto design.
    • Who was behind Twitter's recent outage trouble?
    • An embedded Firefox root certificate expired. Who was surprised?
    • AI-generated Github repos, voice cloning, Patch Tuesday and an Apple 0-day.
    • The FBI warns of another novel attack vector that's seeing a lot of action.
    • Google weighs in on the Age Verification controversy.
    • In a vacuum, Kazakhstan comes up with their own solution.
    • Was Google also served an order from the UK? Can they say?
    • A serious PHP vulnerability you need to know you don't have.
    • A bunch of great listener feedback, some Sci-Fi content reviews and...
    • A new tool allows YOU to test YOUR PCs for their RowHammer susceptibility

    Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1017-Notes.pdf

    Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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