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Steve Gibson, the man who coined the term spyware and created the first anti-spyware program, creator of Spinrite and ShieldsUP, discusses the hot topics in security today with Leo Laporte. Records live every Tuesday at 4:30pm Eastern / 1:30pm Pacific / 20:30 UTC.
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/ Germany may soon outlaw ad blockers. / What's happening in the courts over AI. / The U.K. drops its demands of Apple. / New Microsoft 365 tenants being throttled. / Is Russia preparing to block Google Meet. / Bluesky s
/ What AI website summaries mean for Internet economics. / Time to urgently update Plex Servers (again). / Allianz Life stolen data gets leaked. / Chrome test Incognito-mode fingerprint script blocking. / Chrome 140 addi
/ CISA's Emergency Directive to ALL Federal agencies re: SharePoint. / NVIDIA firmly says "no" to any embedded chip gimmicks. / Dashlane is terminating its (totally unusable) free tier. / Malicious repository libraries a
/ A follow-up to the SharePoint server patch mess. / How Russia arranges to spy on other country's local embassies. / "Dropbox Passwords" manager app is ending in October. / Signal will leave Australia rather than help s
/ Brave randomizes its fingerprints. / The next Brave will block Microsoft Recall by default. / Clorox sues its IT provider for $380 million in damages. / 6-month Win10 ESU offers are beginning to appear. / Warfare has s
/ Bypassing all passkey protections. / The ransomware attacks just keep on coming. / Cloudflare capitulates to the MPA and starts blocking. / The need for online age verification is exploding. / Microsoft really wants Ex
/ A glorious takedown of quantum factorization. / Notepad++ signs its own code signing certificate. / Dennis Taylor has Bobiverse Book 6 on his lap. / Crypto/ATM machines flat out outlawed. / Signal vs WhatsApp: Encrypti
/ Another Israeli spyware vendor surfaces. / Win11 to delete restore points more quickly. / The EU accelerates its plans to abandon Microsoft Azure. / The EU sets timelines for Post-Quantum crypto adoption. / Russia to c
/ Let's Encrypt drops its long-running email notifications. / Microsoft's new "Unexpected Restart Experience". / Microsoft's response to last year's massive CrowdStrike outage. / Windows 10's extended service updates wil
/ An exploited iOS iMessage vulnerability Apple denies? / The NPM repository is under siege with no end in sight. / Were Comcast and Digital Realty compromised? Don't ask them. / Matthew Green agrees: XChat does not offe
/ In memoriam: Bill Atkinson. / Meta native apps & JavaScript collude for a localhost local mess. / The EU rolls out its own DNS4EU filtered DNS service. / Ukraine DDoS's Russia's Railway DNS ... and... so what? / The Li
/ Pwn2Own 2025, Berlin results. / PayPal seeks a "newly registered domains" patent. / An expert iOS jailbreak developer gives up.
/ What's the status of Encrypted Client Hello (ECH)? / What radio technology would be best for remote inverter shutdown? / Some DNS providers already block newly listed domains. / Knowing when not to click a link can tak
/ Chrome to actively refuse admin privileges. / Android Messenger is getting manual key verification. / Pwn2Own to add AI "pwning" as in-scope attack targets. / AI has already been found to be replicating. / Microsoft no
/ The state of Virginia passes an age-restriction law that has no chance. / New Zealand also tries something similar, citing Australia's lead. / A nasty Python package for Discord survived 3 years and 11K downloads. / Th
/ Microsoft to officially abandon passwords and support their deletion. / Meta's RayBan smart-glasses weaken their privacy terms. / 30% of Microsoft code is now being written by AI. / Google says prying Chrome from it wi
/ Android to get "Lockdown Mode". / What's in the new editions of Chrome and Firefox? / Why did Apple silently re-enable automatic updates? / My new iPhone 16, Chinese tariffs and electronics. / Dynamic "hotpatching" com
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