May 26th 2026
Security Now 1080
Vulnerability Debt Repayment
Will Mythos Change Cybersecurity Forever?
Mozilla found 271 unknown Firefox vulnerabilities in days using AI—bugs that millions of automated test runs had missed for years. Steve Gibson argues this isn't a crisis. It's the industry finally paying down decades of security debt, and for the first time, defenders may have the advantage.
- Cisco meets Mythos
- Can the aging CVE system survive AI
- Patch deployment latency in the AI age
- MSFT's official YellowKey BitLocker bypass mitigation
- Ubiquiti patches 5 serious vulnerabilities
- Drupal attacked by a PostgreSQL injection
- Microsoft terminates SMS as a second factor
- GitHub hacked - all of its source code exfiltrated
- Russia is using very old Western software
- Why to get a no-charge AI chatbot account
- New Sci-Fi on Netflix
- What we learn from Mozilla's use of Mythos
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1080-Notes.pdf
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