SN 1016: The Bluetooth Backdoor - North Korean Texans, Apple Pushes Back

• Utah passes age verification requirement for app stores.
• The inside story on fake North Korean employees. Is that a Texas accent?
• An update on the ongoing Bybit cryptoheist saga.
• The industry may be making some changes in the wake of the Bybit attack.
• Apple pushes back legally against the UK's secret order.
• Did someone crack Passkeys?
• The UK launches a legal salvo at an innocent security researcher.
• The old data breach we witnessed that just keeps on giving.
• A bit more Bybit postmortem forensic news.
• A lesson to learn from a clever and effective ransomware attack.
• And what about that Bluetooth Backdoor discovery everyone is talking about?

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1016-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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