Security Now with Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Jan 14th 2025

Security Now 1008

HOTP and TOTP

SyncThing, Auto-Updates, Sci-Fi Recs

Records live every Tuesday at 4:30pm Eastern / 1:30pm Pacific / 21:30 UTC.
Category: Help & How To
  • Meta winds down 3rd-party content filtering. Is encryption soon to follow?
  • Taking over abandoned Command & Control server domains (strictly for research purposes only).
  • IoT devices to get the "Cyber Trust Mark" — Will anyone notice or care?
  • "SyncThing" receives a (blessedly infrequent) update.
  • Government email is not using encryption? Really?
  • Email relaying prevents point-to-point end-to-end encryption and authentication.
  • Just because Let's Encrypt doesn't support email doesn't mean it's impossible.
  • What Sci-Fi does ChatGPT think I (Steve) should start reading next?
  • To auto-update or not to auto-update? — is that one question or two?
  • And, until today, we've never taken a deep dive into the technology of time-varying 6-digit one time tokens.

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1008-Notes.pdf

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