Oct 12th 2021
Security Now 840
0-Day Angst
Hosted by
Steve Gibson,
Leo Laporte
Windows 11 Watch, Google's Universal 2SV, Twitch Hack, Patch Tuesday
Records live every Tuesday at 4:30pm Eastern / 1:30pm Pacific / 20:30 UTC.
- Picture of the week.
- Windows 11 Watch: “AllowUpgradesWithUnsupportedTPMOrCPU”
- AMD processors running some apps up to 15% slower.
- The Windows 10 taskbar on Windows 11.
- Microsoft is disagreeing... with themselves.
- We have an update on the Windows Explorer RAM leak I mentioned previously...
- VirtualBox and Windows HyperVisors don't get along.
- Dropped UDP packets with network optimization.
- Patch Tuesday.
- The Joy of the (new!) Default: Excel 4.0 macros to be disabled.
- Google warns Gmail users of phishing attempts.
- Google takes first step toward universal 2SV.
- The US Senate approves some hacking and ransomware legislation.
- Amazon’s “Twitch” service was hacked bigtime!
- A major Apache webserver update introduced a new critical 0-day error.
- Last Week's Mass Exodus from WhatsApp.
- Closing the Loop.
- Apple’s new “Invasion” series.
- SpinRite.
- 0-Day Angst.
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