Security Now with Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Jan 28th 2025

Security Now 1010

DNS Over TLS

Record DDoS, Hackers Get Hacked

Records live every Tuesday at 4:30pm Eastern / 1:30pm Pacific / 21:30 UTC.
Category: Help & How To
  • eM Client CAN be purchased outright.
  • An astonishing 5-year-old typo in MasterCard's DNS.
  • An unwelcome surprise received by 18,459 low-level hackers.
  • DDoS attacks continue growing, seemingly without any end in sight.
  • Let's Encrypt clarifies their plans for 6-day "we barely knew you" certificates.
  • SpinRite uncovers a bad brand new 8TB drive.
  • Listener feedback about TOTP, Syncthing and UDP hole punching, email spam, ValiDrive speed, AI neural nets, DJI geofencing, and advertising in the "New" Outlook.
  • A look into the tradeoffs required to obtain privacy for our DNS lookups

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1010-Notes.pdf

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