• SN 1016: The Bluetooth Backdoor - North Korean Texans, Apple Pushes Back

  • Mar 12 2025
  • Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
  • Podcast

SN 1016: The Bluetooth Backdoor - North Korean Texans, Apple Pushes Back

  • Summary

    • Utah passes age verification requirement for app stores.
    • The inside story on fake North Korean employees. Is that a Texas accent?
    • An update on the ongoing Bybit cryptoheist saga.
    • The industry may be making some changes in the wake of the Bybit attack.
    • Apple pushes back legally against the UK's secret order.
    • Did someone crack Passkeys?
    • The UK launches a legal salvo at an innocent security researcher.
    • The old data breach we witnessed that just keeps on giving.
    • A bit more Bybit postmortem forensic news.
    • A lesson to learn from a clever and effective ransomware attack.
    • And what about that Bluetooth Backdoor discovery everyone is talking about?

    Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1016-Notes.pdf

    Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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