SN 1080: Vulnerability Debt Repayment - Will Mythos Change Cybersecurity Forever?

SN 1080: Vulnerability Debt Repayment - Will Mythos Change Cybersecurity Forever?

Author: TWiT May 27, 2026 Duration: 2:44:00

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

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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