Security Now with Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Aug 17th 2021

Security Now 832

Microsoft’s Culpable Negligence

Firefox Update, Magniber, Merger of Avast and NortonLifeLock

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Category: Help & How To
  • Picture of the week.
  • Firefox Update.
  • Facebook finally adds end-to-end encryption to Messenger.
  • Exploitation of PrintNightmare has begun.
  • And “Magniber” Ransomware Uses PrintNightmare.
  • Crypto-mining botnet modifies CPU configurations to increase its mining power.
  • NortonLifeLock and Avast are merging their users.
  • ASUS updates 207 motherboard BIOSes!
  • Errata.
  • Closing the Loop.
  • Microsoft’s Culpable Negligence.

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