Security Now! with Steve Gibbson

This Week's Stories Microsoft has started forcing feature updates on people who don't want them. Bypass to continue obtaining Win7 updates created. Microsoft's Project Verona continues moving forward. Microsoft's RDP client for iOS is back. Avast / AVG in the doghouse. Making a mountain out of a VPN molehill. We invite you to read our show notes at Hosts: Download or subscribe to this show at . You can submit a question to Security Now! at the . For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: . Sponsors:

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 We invite you to read our show notes at Hosts: Download or subscribe to this show at . You can submit a question to Security Now! at the . For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: . Sponsors:

The future of the Linux kernel underneath the Android OS Inherent challenges presented by the nature of the Android ecosystem VNC users: Time to update! A welcome change to Twitter & SMS-based 2FA A "foregone conclusion" to law enforcement's strategy to force password divulgence Pre-announcement from Microsoft about DNS Details of the emerging DoH protocol We invite you to read our show notes at Hosts: Download or subscribe to this show at . You can submit a question to Security Now! at the . For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: . Sponsors:

November's Patch Tuesday is the antepenultimate free Windows 7 update CheckM8 & https://Checkra.in GitHub launches Security Lab to boost open-source security Warrantless searches of devices at US borders were just ruled unconstitutional Another WhatsApp bug lets hackers quietly install spyware on your device ZombieLoad v2 The ByteCode Alliance http://tpm.fail/ We invite you to read our show notes at Hosts: Download or subscribe to this show at . You can submit a question to Security Now! at the . For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: . Sponsors:

CheckM8 & Checkra.in moves to first public beta The case of the misbehaving transducer BlueKeep and Microsoft BlueKeep and BSODs BlueKeep and Marcus Hutchins Mozilla on DoH -vs- COMCAST Yet another approach for solving the problem of certificate revocation within a more limited scope. We invite you to read our show notes at Hosts: Download or subscribe to this show at . You can submit a question to Security Now! at the . For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: . Sponsors: