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Jon spends the weekend down for the count and Eric still declutters. (Both look forward to The Princess Bride at the Oregon Symphony.). Claude Code is used in Cyber Campaign, the worst password (and monitoring) ever (?) for Denmark's population register, and Anthropic's experimentation with self replicating AI. Have fun with Unusual Suspects and the oldest known land animal (Jonathan!). 0:00 - Intro 6:49 - CyberXero 11:53 - Population Register 16:31 - (Hypothetical) Self Replicating AI 23:35 - Unusual Suspects 25:47 - Long Live Jonathan

Eric and Jon are on the road again -- Jon back from a trip (sailing!?) and Eric does fall cleaning. Agents are abusing wiki[mp]edia and Chrome has another serious issue warranting a quick patch. For fun we have bizarre 80s ad choices for non-existent hardware, and the Schooner Adventuress. 0:00 - Intro 6:31 - Vandalizing Wikipedia 11:54 - More Chrome Bug Fun 17:04 - Mimic Systems 20:02 - Sound Experience

With Jon and Eric both unavailable this week, they asked the question, "What would happen if you asked Gemini Notebook to create a Mostly Security podcast episode about Mostly Security using the Mostly Security format?"

Eric rides the rails and Jon fishes the seas. A NightmareStresser is powered off and your favorite bands "never before heard bootleg" might be AI. Scientists name a new snake after Slash and archaeologists uncover 38 people in an unlooted tomb. 0:00 - Introduction 7:57 - NightmareStresser 10:48 - AI music in your feed 14:36 - Welcome to the Jungle 17:24 - Chimú Tomb

Eric reads and one of Jon's dogs has a vet scare. A Zero Click Zero Day on Pixel phones, and a third party Twitch Chrome extension harvesting bearer tokens. For fun we have the Nikon small world (in motion!) and what happens after a dinosaur eats a bird that ate a fish. 0:00 - Intro 7:13 - Zero Click 10:45 - "Enhanced" Viewing 14:47 - Nikon Small World 16:42 - DinoBirdFish

Coyote vs ACME and frustration then fishing. Faster Chrome updates. Identity verification company breach. Big Patch Tuesday. Breaking Botnets. Teaching fruit flies to play DOOM and Mario 64. Bee relics in fossilized Owl pellets. 0:00 - Introduction 10:59 - Faster Chrome 13:40 - ID Verification Oops 19:23 - Big Patch Tuesday 23:28 - Breaking Botnets 26:25 - Fruit flies play DOOM 29:56 - Bee relics

Eric complete's another road trip and listens to a "book". Jon gets some electrical work done. ClickFix has a sibling, TerminalFix. Chrome fixes a lot of things and more details emerge from the Hugging Face incident. Scientists may or may not have discovered a WIMP. Jon observes a partial lunar eclipse. 0:00 - Introduction 5:35 - TerminalFix 8:52 - Chrome 152 11:39 - Hugging Face fallout 15:39 - WIMP discovery 18:39 - Partial Lunar Eclipse

Eric wraps up his latest app, and Jon finishes his latest project. Half a million Californians have signed up for DROP so far, Botnets in your car, and Ring's new encrypted video strategy. For fun you can make your own Raspberry Pi Cyberdeck or check out NASA's latest Dish. 0:00 - Intro 6:49 - Half a Million 9:28 - Head (Unit) Botnet 12:31 - Throw Away the Key 18:46 - Cyberdeck 23:36 - Dish Muscle

Eric celebrates and Jon debugs saws. NASA captures images of impact site, CISA warns of four exploits across Microsoft, VMWare, and Apple, and OpenAI pauses Astra training to harden model containment. Voyager I nears one light day distance, and Moderna/Merck announce promising, personalized melanoma vaccine results. 0:00 - Intro 9:48 - Lunar Impact 12:21 - Exploits in the Wild 14:59 - Astra Paused 22:07 - Light Day Approaching 25:23 - Cancer Vaccine (??)

Eric rediscovers a love of time. Jon returns from Alaska and fixes a trailer. California drops DROP on the public. Update your Zoom client, folks. Flatworms with exploding cells and the Kenai Fjords are cool. 0:00 - Introduction 11:39 - DROP 15:30 - Zoom Bug 21:25 - Exploding Cells 24:28 - Kenai Fjords

Jon's on Vacation and Eric holds down the Oregon (Coast) Fort. Agents are getting their own wallets and identity, while the last two Chrome milestones release more security fixes than the previous 23 combined. For fun [?] NASA tracks SpaceX rocket debris impacting the moon, and Jon visits Denali National Park. 0:00 - Intro 10:29 - Stable Agent Coins 15:02 - Chrome Fixes 19:50 - Lunar Impact 23:28 - Denali National Park

Eric tests health bands, Jon makes pickles. More on OpenAI playing a game of thermonuclear war. Logos are back! The Scam Economy is bigger than you think. Lost civilizations discovered beneath the Amazon. Octopuses are cool! 0:00 - Introduction 11:35 - OpenAI Revisited 16:44 - Squidbleed 19:48 - The Scam Economy 26:57 - Hidden Amazon 30:34 - Octopuses are cool

Eric's on vacation making apps, and Jon deconstructs a tree. Ransomware targeting Coca Cola's protein milk, and OpenAI's next model escapes to HuggingFace. The wonders of prehistoric squirrel coprolites, and the coming launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope. 0:00 - Intro 7:57 - Shredded Protein Milk 11:37 - Motivated Model Mayhem 18:09 - Squirrel Coprolites 21:04 - Nancy Grace Roman Telescope

Eric needs a vacation. Jon discovers industrial sprinklers. Humans are optional. Grok takes it all. World Cup memes are fun. Space tastes like raspberries. 0:00 - Introduction 4:39 - Humans are Optional 9:24 - Grok All the Things 16:34 - World Cup Memes 21:03 - Space tastes like raspberries

Eric and Jon on the road again. HalluSquatting ... is a thing (?). Agents can be extremely persistent and exhibit malware like behaviors. The FBI seizes domains from NetNut residential proxy hosting botnet infrastructure. For fun you have a monthly Satellite Puzzler and New Horizing waking up from a nice long nap far past Pluto. 0:00 - Intro 4:09 - HalluSquatting 12:21 - Agent Persistence 15:59 - NetNut Proxy Seizure 23:45 - Satellite Puzzler 26:00 - New Horizons Wakes Up