Security Now with Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Oct 12th 2021

Security Now 840

0-Day Angst

Windows 11 Watch, Google's Universal 2SV, Twitch Hack, Patch Tuesday

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Category: Help & How To
  • 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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