Security Now (Audio)
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Cybersecurity guru Steve Gibson joins Leo Laporte every Tuesday. Steve and Leo break down the latest cybercrime and hacking stories, offering a deep understanding of what's happening and how to protect yourself and your business. Security Now is a must listen for security professionals every week.
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Sep 16, 2026Recent reviews on Apple Podcasts (5)
Stop “you may also like”
The SN content itself is great, but the repeated addition of extra, “you might also like” content is super annoying. If I wanted that, I’d subscribe to it. Please stop polluting your feed.
PaulsAppReviews ·
A must listen for anyone interested in security!!!
I’ve been listening to Security Now for four years and have learned a tremendous amount from it. Keep up the great work, and thank you both for making the show so engaging and entertaining
Graulito ·
Unlistenable now
Can no longer tolerate the AI glazing this podcast has become all about. Basically anything Leo is on will be unabashedly pro-AI. UNSUB’d after listening for 10+ years. And you know what, maybe someone should use an AI agent to replicate your software, Steve, and put you out of business. I mean, all’s fair in love and AI, right? Finally, Leo showing his financial hand a bit too much bemoaning losing a house worth of value from his retirement in a relatively minor dip in the market. Of course you’d want your AI overlords to succeed when you’ve got +$5-10mln in retirement on the line. So go ahead and put down the developers on whose backs your AI shills have trod upon to enrich themselves at the peril of all. Read the room, jagweed.
0xbeepBoop ·
2-minute limit on AI glazing please
The effusive and unending AI praise is grating and embarrassing for someone I want to be able to trust as being level-headed and thoughtful about the technology landscape. I’m willing to tolerate it but no longer than two minutes per episode please. With all the other noisy sources out there glazing AI, that’s the last thing I want to hear about when I’m trying to get my security news. Otherwise it’s a decent podcast, but I have had to stop listening.
seccessecces ·
Best podcast ever
20 years of listening and can’t wait for the next episode. If I could have coffee with any celebrity in the world it would be Steve. (as long as we don’t have to go to Charbucks)
myap2l2enickname ·
Episodes (10)
SN 1096: Are we the Krell? - 153 Million Driver's Licenses Leaked
Sep 16, 20262h 50m#1096
Are we charging toward a Krell-style catastrophe with AI, arming ourselves with incomprehensible power while missing the real risks lurking beneath the code? The full report on last week's nearly 1,000 Microsoft security
SN 1095: AI-Driven Expertise Loss - Gemini, Hugging Face, and the AI Arms Race
Sep 9, 20263h 6m#1095
OpenAI's latest advances have the rumor mill buzzing about "hidden thoughts" and unsupervisable models, but are AI safety experts panicking over the wrong threat? Get the clear-headed take behind the headlines. We start
SN 1094: AI Patching Shortcomings - Should You Trust AI-Generated Code?
Sep 2, 20262h 51m#1094
AI-generated code is flooding the industry, but researchers reveal that almost half of it contains critical vulnerabilities. This week, we unpack what happens when the race for automation outpaces security best practices
SN 1093: Tokens in the Stream - Why LLMs are inherently insecure and prompt injection will persist
Aug 26, 20262h 48m#1093
Turns out, every chatbot conversation runs on a messy hack at the heart of language models, making prompt injection an unsolved—and possibly unsolvable—security threat. Steve and Leo unravel the research that explains wh
SN 1092: Restraint Abliteration - Rotating Keys, Broken Guardrails
Aug 19, 20262h 49m#1092
From autocorrect to full-fledged conversationalists, discover how a few tweaks transformed language models—and why understanding this shift exposes urgent questions about AI safety and control. Trusting an open source AI
SN 1091: The Post BlackHat State of AI - When AI Writes Malware
Aug 12, 20262h 51m#1091
AI agents are breaking free from their test environments, outsmarting their creators and breaching real-world networks in ways that no one predicted. Discover how these agentic models are changing the game for both cyber
SN 1090: Black Hat - The Hidden Flaws in AI Security Nobody Saw Coming
Aug 6, 20262h 5m#1090
At Black Hat Las Vegas, the Security Now crew digs into how AI is not just finding hidden software bugs but also fueling both groundbreaking innovation and alarming new exploits. When open models can launch surprise Bitc
SN 1089: Models Go Rogue & ExploitGym - Regulators, Start Your Engines
Jul 29, 20263h 7m#1089
What happens when an unconstrained OpenAI model goes rogue and hacks into Hugging Face, breaching real-world security boundaries? This episode unpacks a watershed moment for AI safety that has everyone in cybersecurity t
SN 1088: A Nefarious Novel Use for AI - Ransomware Negotiations Go High-Tech
Jul 22, 20262h 47m#1088
Cybercriminals are harnessing AI not to break in, but to make sense of their stolen loot and increase their leverage in multi-million dollar ransomware heists. This episode unpacks how AI is now turbocharging extortion a
SN 1087: HalluSquatting, GhostApproval & GitLost - Patch Tuesday Breaks Records
Jul 15, 20262h 48m#1087
AI is rewriting the rules of cybersecurity, and this week, massive government and private sector moves show just how quickly the stakes are rising. Find out how regulators, attackers, and defenders are all scrambling to