Oct 20th 2026
Security Now 1101
ECDSA's Curves Origins
When AI Becomes the Attacker
An unreleased AI solved a 26-year-old cryptographic secret in less than half an hour, exposing the origins of a widely used standard. Discover what this jaw-dropping breakthrough means for the future of trust and transparency in cybersecurity.
- Another record smashing Patch Tuesday.
- But again, all those updates were not without consequences.
- Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 reports on an agentic attack.
- A mass-compromised hardware cryptocurrency wallet attack.
- How to create your own known-safe crypto wallet.
- Feedback about AI, coding and SpinRite from a listener.
- What the reverse-engineering of the ECDSA curves means for security
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1101-Notes.pdf
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