Security Now with Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

May 19th 2026

Security Now 1079

Daybreak and Codename MDASH

Microsoft’s Edge Password Blunder

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Category: Help & How To

OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google are racing to unleash next-gen AI that hunts for software vulnerabilities and hacks at scale. This episode explores how these advancements could shake up everything we thought we knew about cybersecurity.

  • Microsoft rethinks Edge's "intended behavior" after it gets press.
  • Chaotic Eclipse hacker strikes again with a Bitlocker bypass.
  • Google's threat analysis group documents malicious AI use.
  • Canada hasn't learned the lessons of the EU and the UK.
  • AI chatbots may be far more addictive than social media.
  • Project: Hail Mary now available to stream.
  • An apparently-serious zero-point quantum vacuum energy source.
  • A bit of listener feedback.
  • OpenAI's & Microsoft's vulnerability discovery systems

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1079-Notes.pdf

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