Security Now 1031: How Salt Typhoon Gets In
- Author
- TWiT
- Published
- Wed 25 Jun 2025
- Episode Link
- https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/1031
- China's Salt Typhoon claims another victim (or two).
- State healthcare portals are tracking and leaking. No kidding.
- Apple adopts FIDO's Passkeys and other credentials transport.
- Facebook gets Passkey logon.
- TikTok continues ticking for at least another 90 days.
- Canadian telco admits they were infiltrated by Salt Typhoon.
- Microsoft to remove unwanted (and hopefully unneeded) hardware drivers.
- The Austrian government legislates court-warranted message decryption.
- I (Steve) finally get full clarity on what today's "AI" means.
- A deep dive into the Salt Typhoon's operation and how they got in
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1031-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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