SN 1076: FAST16.SYS - Unmasking the NSA's Most Diabolical Digital Sabotage

What if your engineering calculations secretly sabotaged your nation's best efforts? This week, we reveal how a newly uncovered 21-year-old NSA rootkit quietly corrupted scientific research in hostile states and why it changes everything you think you know about cyberwarfare. Bitwarden's CLI hit with a supply-chain attack. Commercial routers in Iran fail shortly before the war. Meta logging all employee activity to train replacement AI. GRC's DNS Benchmark Release 5. Two miscellaneous AI thoughts. A bunch of terrific listener feedback. Unraveling the diabolical history of "fast16.sys" Show Notes - Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or

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SN 1076: FAST16.SYS - Unmasking the NSA's Most Diabolical Digital Sabotage is an episode from Security Now (Video) by Leo Laporte.

This episode is 2:35:19 long.

This episode was published on Apr 29, 2026.

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