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Aug 2024
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SN 989: Cascading Bloom Filters - Key Ca...

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About this episode
  • CrowdStrike Exec's "Most Epic Fail" Award
  • Hardware backdoors discovered in Chinese-made key cards
  • Counterfeit CISCO networking gear
  • SpinRite
  • Errata
  • NPD breach updates from listeners
  • Looking back at old SN episodes
  • Cascading Bloom Filters

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-989-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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