- Owner: Leo Laporte @leolaporte, Steve Gibson @SGgrc
- Date of podcast launch: 2005
- Average episode length: 100 minutes, weekly
- Three typical topics: Personal security, vulnerabilities, malware
- Website: grc.com
- Available on: iTunes, RSS, Podnova
Started in 2005, Security Now! is one of the longest-running cybersecurity podcasts with some of the longest episodes that often span well beyond a feature movie length. Gibson and Laporte focus on personal security but also take time to reflect what’s happened in the last week across the globe. Because one episode is nearly two hours long, this podcast rarely leaves a cyberstone unturned.
Their page is a bit old-school, offering to download MP3s instead of expanding to more podcast sites. On the other side, each episode comes with Steve’s notes and a transcript in three different formats. Every two weeks, the hosts read selected questions from the listeners.
Subscribers will notice that SprintRite software is mentioned regularly. That’s Gibson’s tool for scanning, relocating, and recovering data on storage devices, with the last version released back in 2004. It’s not free, but apparently it still does the job at the fraction of a price that the latest tools ask.
