SN 771: Lamphone - Windows Update Kills Printers & SSDs




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Summary: <p>Windows update kills printers &amp; SSDs.</p><ul> <li>Lamphone: eavesdrop on a hanging lightbulb</li> <li>Brave Browser caught and chastised for tweaking user-entered URLs for its benefit</li> <li>Microsoft breaks its own record for Patch Tuesday patches</li> <li>TFW Windows 10 loses your printer port</li> <li>Last week's Patch Tuesday broke ALL PRINTING (even to PDFs) for many users. Fix won't come for a month</li> <li>Windows 10 2004 update is messing up SSDs and non-SSDs</li> <li>SMBleed</li> <li>Subject: Your Site Has Been Hacked</li> <li>Authentic database ransom attacks</li> <li>Another side-channel attack on Intel chips</li> </ul><p>We invite you to read our show notes at <a href="https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-771-Notes.pdf">https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-771-Notes.pdf</a></p> <p><strong>Hosts:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/steve-gibson">Steve Gibson</a> and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a></p> <p>Download or subscribe to this show at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/security-now">https://twit.tv/shows/security-now</a>.</p> <p>You can submit a question to Security Now! at the <a href="https://www.grc.com/feedback.htm" target="_blank">GRC Feedback Page</a>.</p> <p>For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: <a href="https://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm" target="_blank">grc.com</a>, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written <a href="https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm" target="_blank">Spinrite 6</a>.</p> <p><strong>Sponsors:</strong></p><ul> <li><a href="http://canary.tools/twit">canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT</a></li> <li><a href="http://barracuda.com/securitynow">barracuda.com/securitynow</a></li> <li><a href="http://WWT.COM/TWIT">WWT.COM/TWIT</a></li> </ul>