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With millions racing to embrace AI assistants and cybercriminals pivoting to new, high-stakes tactics, the episode tackles the dizzying pace of change and asks: just how worried should we be? The discussion pulls back the curtain on AI's unpredictable power, the escalation of digital extortion, and why the next breach may hit closer to home than you think.

Muse has a bad 0-day

The regularity of "Irregular"

More rogue OpenAI breaches

The Seven Deadly Sins (TSDS) hacker group

Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) cargo ship hacked

The FBI offended ShinyHunters's delicate sensibilities

Canonical switches to an every–2-weeks release cadence

Axios' AI 101: AI Explainer for normal people

How worried should we be?

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1098-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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After Microsoft's historic Mega Patch Tuesday, enterprise IT teams worldwide are scrambling as a wave of updates triggers system meltdowns, broken domains, and silent Excel failures. Find out how AI-driven speed collided with real-world chaos.

Andrew Ng weighs-in on AI Doomsaying.

The wisdom of outsourcing AI security testing.

The true risk of an AI-created bioweapon.

The EU KIDS Act -- this one is even messier.

"Nightmare Eclipse" finally unmasks himself.

A whitehat firm used Claude to attack OpenAI.

Cisco's own massive 77 CVE update.

What was the fallout from Sept's Patch Tuesday

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1097-Notes.pdf



Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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After Microsoft's historic Mega Patch Tuesday, enterprise IT teams worldwide are scrambling as a wave of updates triggers system meltdowns, broken domains, and silent Excel failures. Find out how AI-driven speed collided with real-world chaos.

Andrew Ng weighs-in on AI Doomsaying.

The wisdom of outsourcing AI security testing.

The true risk of an AI-created bioweapon.

The EU KIDS Act -- this one is even messier.

"Nightmare Eclipse" finally unmasks himself.

A whitehat firm used Claude to attack OpenAI.

Cisco's own massive 77 CVE update.

What was the fallout from Sept's Patch Tuesday

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1097-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.

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Are we charging toward a Krell-style catastrophe with AI, arming ourselves with incomprehensible power while missing the real risks lurking beneath the code?

The full report on last week's nearly 1,000 Microsoft security fixes.

Five months after its start, what's the status of Project Glasswing?

Anthropic's rogue agent escape count reaches four incidents.

Not to be outdone, OpenAI's count passes 10 and maybe as many as 23!

Revisiting California's DROP compulsory data broker data deletion.

Russian criminals get their hands on more than 153 million drivers license scans.

"Skynet" is the wrong model for the end of the world. The right model is The Krell

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1096-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Are we charging toward a Krell-style catastrophe with AI, arming ourselves with incomprehensible power while missing the real risks lurking beneath the code?

The full report on last week's nearly 1,000 Microsoft security fixes.

Five months after its start, what's the status of Project Glasswing?

Anthropic's rogue agent escape count reaches four incidents.

Not to be outdone, OpenAI's count passes 10 and maybe as many as 23!

Revisiting California's DROP compulsory data broker data deletion.

Russian criminals get their hands on more than 153 million drivers license scans.

"Skynet" is the wrong model for the end of the world. The right model is The Krell

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1096-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.

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