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This Week's Stories Everyone can still upgrade to Windows 10 for free with this trick HP SSDs fail after 32768 hours The EU is not happy about a possible US encryption ban US government's formal permission to hack 110 nursing homes have been crippled by a ransomware attack Firefox is seriously pushing back on tracking signal leakage New problems with Windows DLLs The StrandHogg vulnerability We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-743-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: LastPass.com/twit securitynow.cachefly.com Melissa.com/twit

The future of the Linux kernel underneath the Android OS Inherent challenges presented by the nature of the Android ecosystem VNC users: Time to update! A welcome change to Twitter & SMS-based 2FA A "foregone conclusion" to law enforcement's strategy to force password divulgence Pre-announcement from Microsoft about DNS Details of the emerging DoH protocol We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-742-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: expressvpn.com/securitynow ECHOSEC.NET/SECURITYNOW privacy.com/securitynow

November's Patch Tuesday is the antepenultimate free Windows 7 update CheckM8 & https://Checkra.in GitHub launches Security Lab to boost open-source security Warrantless searches of devices at US borders were just ruled unconstitutional Another WhatsApp bug lets hackers quietly install spyware on your device ZombieLoad v2 The ByteCode Alliance http://tpm.fail/ We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-741-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: itpro.tv/securitynow promo code SN30 Melissa.com/twit Wasabi.com offer code SecurityNow

CheckM8 & Checkra.in moves to first public beta The case of the misbehaving transducer BlueKeep and Microsoft BlueKeep and BSODs BlueKeep and Marcus Hutchins Mozilla on DoH -vs- COMCAST Yet another approach for solving the problem of certificate revocation within a more limited scope. We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-740-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Jason Howell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: WWT.COM/TWIT FreshBooks.com/securitynow canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT

October's Windows Patch Tuesday BROKE Windows' ability to connect to a significant number of the Internet's websites. Here's how to fix it. Chrome 78 disables Code Integrity Check to mitigate "Aw Snap!" crashes. "Chrome 78 patches a Chrome 0-day which had been discovered by Kaspersky being exploited in the wild." News from the Edge: the first Chromium-based Microsoft Edge Stable Release Candidate. Microarchitectural Data Sampling Vulnerabilities. Trouble for QNAP NAS devices exposed to the Internet. MSP's -- Managed Service Providers -- are a major vector for ransomware delivery. Five months after returning a rental car, man still has the remote control. Chinese-made drones in the US are being grounded. The DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) controversy. BlueKeep-based attacks have finally started, and what we predicted on this podcast has finally happened. We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-739-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Jason Howell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: ZipRecruiter.com/securitynow LastPass.com/twit securitynow.cachefly.com

This Week's Stories 3rd-party antivirus strikes again Windows Defender offline scan Adobe databases hacked Johannesburg hit by ransomware Firefox's anti-tracking effectiveness Bad new PHP/NGINX RCE being exploited in the wild Goodbye SMS (maybe kinda) Hello RCS? Forced Password Disclosure We invite you to read our show notes: https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-738-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Jason Howell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: privacy.com/securitynow WWT.COM/TWIT ECHOSEC.NET/SECURITYNOW

Pixel 4 Face Unlock is so easy you can do it with your eyes closed! Samsung Galaxy S10 and Note 10 fingerprint sensor can be foiled with a $3 screen protector. The frenzy to turn CheckM8 into a consumer-friendly iOS jailbreak. Steganography finds a new host file format. Security display changes are coming to Firefox 70. More on Microsoft's open source "ElectionGuard" election security system. A potentially serious flaw found in Realtek WiFi drivers. Yubikey for local Windows login has been officially released. We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-737-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Jason Howell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: Wasabi.com offer code SecurityNow expressvpn.com/securitynow

This week's stories A sobering reminder about supply chain attacks Facebook's stance on end-to-end encryption raises official protests UNIX's Co-Creator Ken Thompson's BSD UNIX Password Has Finally Been Cracked Japanese stalker finds idol using reflections in her eyes Americans and Digital Knowledge OpenPGP being built into Mozilla's Thunderbird eMail client Windows 10 Tamper Protection being enabled by default CheckM8We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-736-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: ECHOSEC.NET/SECURITYNOW go.itpro.tv/securitynow promo code SN30 canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT

Ransomware hits schools, hospitals, and hearing aid manufacturers Sodinokibi: the latest advances in Ransomware-as-a-Service Win7 Extended Security Updates are extended A new Nasty 0-Day RCE in vBulletin There's a new WannaCry in town We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-735-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit WWT.COM/TWIT ZipRecruiter.com/securitynow

This Week's Stories The latest state-of-the-art secure solutions for cross-device, cross-location device synchronization Mozilla's recently announced plans to gradually and carefully bring DNS-over-HTTPS to all Firefox users in the US The EFF weighs in on DNS-over-HTTPS The 100% free VPN offering coming from our friends at Cloudflare We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-734-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: FreshBooks.com/securitynow securitynow.cachefly.com LastPass.com/twit

This Week's Stories: Cryptomining makes a comeback The top three most attacked ports Small office/home office (SOHO) routers and wireless access points: "SOHOpelessly Broken" Chrome gets an emergency update, to 77.0.3865.90 2019 CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-733-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: ZipRecruiter.com/securitynow Wasabi.com offer code SecurityNow expressvpn.com/securitynow

This Week's Stories SIMjacker allows attackers to hijack any phone just by sending it an SMS message. Here comes iOS "Lucky" 13! Chrome follows Mozilla to DoH with a twist. Want to enable DoH in Chrome right now? You can, right now, if you wish. Chrome stops showing Extended Validation certs in the URL bar. Mozilla launches 'Firefox Private Network' VPN service as a browser extension. Windows Patch Tuesday redux Chrome Remote Desktop EXIM eMail servers are in trouble again. We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-732-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: WWT.COM/TWIT thehelm.com/SECURITYNOW go.itpro.tv/securitynow promo code SN30

This week's stories: Get rich quick spotting deepfakes! A forced two-day recess of all schools in Flagstaff, Arizona The case of a ransomware operator being too greedy Apple's controversial response to Google's discovery of Chinese iOS hacks Zerodium's new payout schedule and what it might mean. The final full public disclosure of BlueKeep exploitation code Serious PHP flaws, some potentially serious flaws found We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-731-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT FreshBooks.com/securitynow redhat.com/heroes

This Week's Stories: Google expands its bug bounty program New bug bounty millionaires Google's Project Zero group dropped a bomb on iOS Ransomware attacks on local governments and businesses are on the rise We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-730-Notes.pdf If you're in Boston on October 3rd, join LastPass and TWiT.tv for the Cybersecurity & Identity Trends, Unlocked event. Sign up at http://twit.to/unlocked Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: securitynow.cachefly.com LastPass.com/twit ZipRecruiter.com/securitynow

• Texas Ransomware Update• Remember that Kazakhstan cert?• The mixed-blessing of "wide open" source projects• RubyGems is in trouble again• Chrome to add data breach notification• iOS v12.4 updated quickly to 12.4.1• Next-gen ad privacyWe invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-729-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: expressvpn.com/securitynow Wasabi.com offer code SecurityNow WWT.COM/TWIT