SN 743: Android “StrandHogg”

This Week's Stories

• Everyone can still upgrade to Windows 10 for free with this trick
• HP SSDs fail after 32768 hours
• The EU is not happy about a possible US encryption ban
• US government's formal permission to hack
• 110 nursing homes have been crippled by a ransomware attack
• Firefox is seriously pushing back on tracking signal leakage
• New problems with Windows DLLs
• The StrandHogg vulnerability

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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