Is YOUR System Vulnerable to RowHammer?
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Security Now with Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Mar 18th 2025

Security Now 1017

Is YOUR System Vulnerable to RowHammer?

Telegram's Crypto, Twitter Outage, FBI Warning

Records live every Tuesday at 4:30pm Eastern / 1:30pm Pacific / 20:30 UTC.
Category: Help & How To
  • 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

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