Security Now 1098: How worried should we be?

With millions racing to embrace AI assistants and cybercriminals pivoting to new, high-stakes tactics, the episode tackles the dizzying pace of change and asks: just how worried should we be? The discussion pulls back the curtain on AI's unpredictable power, the escalation of digital extortion, and why the next breach may hit closer to home than you think.

• Muse has a bad 0-day
• The regularity of "Irregular"
• More rogue OpenAI breaches
• The Seven Deadly Sins (TSDS) hacker group
• Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) cargo ship hacked
• The FBI offended ShinyHunters's delicate sensibilities
• Canonical switches to an every–2-weeks release cadence
• Axios' AI 101: AI Explainer for normal people
• How worried should we be?

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1098-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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