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Log4j's 5th update.
Microsoft's Log4j scanner triggers false positives.
Chinese government is annoyed with Alibaba.
"Hack the DHS" Bug Bounty Expanded.
COVID postpones the RSA...

Leo Laporte walks through some of the highlights of the show and most impactful stories of 2021. Stories include:
SolarWinds Hack Detailed By Microsoft
Crispy Subtitles from Lay's
Remembering Dan...

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Google's 16th exploited Chrome 0-day of the year.
Firefox refuses to do Microsoft.com!
Firefox disabled Microsoft's Cloud Clipboard.
Weaknesses in all cellular networks since...

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Amazon outage and cloud dependence.
AirTag Abuse.
Windows 11 vs Your Browser of Choice.
WordPress once again in the crosshairs.
Closing the Loop.
Sci-Fi.
SpinRite.
Log4j &...

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Tavis finds a bad bug in NSS.
Cheap Smartwatches for kids and babies?
Additional VPN vendors just say no to Roskomnadzor!
Windows 11 loosens its grip on Edge.
RTF Templates...

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"Super Duper Secure Mode"
37% of the world's smartphones are vulnerable.
The RAT Dispenser.
The Entirely Predictable 0-Day Windows Exploit.
"The Frontiers Saga: Fringe...

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An idea whose time has passed...
The stats of brute force password attacks.
The Most Common Passwords.
GoDaddy Breached Bigtime!
A heads-up about NetGear routers.
HTTP Request...

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~10,000 VPN/Firewall appliances from Palo Alto Networks vulnerable.
The 0-Patch Guys Produce a Micropatch
This brings me to "The Zen of Code"
November's Patch Tuesday
November...

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Lots of welcome progress on the ransomware front.
Pwn2Own Austin: Last Tuesday-Thursday largest ever 3-day Fall 2021 Pwn2Own.
Windows 11 snipping tool, its emoji picker, and...

Chrome 0-days, Windows 11 confusion, VoIP DDoS attacks, Dune
More 0-days for Chrome.
Two naughty Firefox add-ons have been caught abusing an extension API.
Windows 11 News: Can we print yet?
A new...

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A sneak peak at November 9th upcoming Win11 fixes.
Leo gets his wish!! REvil WAS recently re-taken down by Law Enforcement!
Microsoft: "We're Excited to Announce the Launch of...

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Windows 11 Watch - Don't update to Windows 11 unless you need to.
Patch Tuesday - PrintNightmare fix to fix the previous print nightmare fix that broke other things.
Point and...

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Windows 11 Watch: "AllowUpgradesWithUnsupportedTPMOrCPU"
AMD processors running some apps up to 15% slower.
The Windows 10 taskbar on Windows 11.
Microsoft is disagreeing......

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Another two, in-the-wild, true 0-days found and fixed in Chrome.
Windows 11 arrives.
A known memory leak in Windows Explorer.
Ransomware and cyber warfare.
On the topic of...

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Chrome's 12th 0-day this year.
Next up on this week's 0-day Watch... is Apple.
Apple appears to be annoying their bug reporters.
Epik Confirms Hack, Gigabytes of Data on...

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The DDoS attack on VoIP.ms.
Patch Tuesday's Mixed Blessing.
Android to auto-reset app permissions on many more devices.
BREAKING: FBI held back ransomware decryption key from...

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A new worrisome 0-day attack against Office documents.
Work From Home (WFH) — No problem?
"Attacks only ever get better"
The return of REvil — Apparently, vacation's...

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The Razor mouse & keyboard.
The wishful phrase "Internet Anonymity" is an oxymoron.
And speaking of Apple's client-side image matching...
BlueTooth has new troubles.
Attackers...

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Credit Freeze vs Credit Lock.
T-Mobile hacker speaks!
Where will Windows 11 run?
ProxyToken.
Tailscale Open Source?
SSD Bait & Switch.
SpinRite.
Life: Hanging by a PIN.
We...

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Firefox soon to be blocking mixed-content downloads by default.
The news from T-Mobile is all bad.
Introducing ProxyLogon's kissing cousin, ProxyShell.
The Razer mouse hack.
A...