SN 1023: Preventing Windows Sandbox Abuse - Microsoft Says "Don't Delete This Folder"
Why did a mysterious empty "inetpub" directory appear after April's Patch Tuesday?
And what new Windows Update crashing hack did this also create?
North Korea is now creating fake US companies to lure would-be employees.
The "Inception" attack subverts all GPT conversational AIs.
New information about data loss in unpowered SSD mass storage.
Lots of terrific feedback from our listeners.
How malware has taken to hiding inside the Windows Sandbox and what you can do to stop it
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2:44:49
SN 1022: The Windows Sandbox - Short-life Certs, Ransomware Payout Stats
Enabling Firefox's Tab Grouping.
Recalled Recall Re-Rolls out.
The crucial CVE program nearly died. It's been given new life.
China confesses to hacking the US (blames our stance on Taiwan).
CISA says what Oracle still refuses to.
Brute force attacks on the (rapid) rise.
An AI/ML Python package rates a 9.8 (again!)
The CA/Browser forum passed short-life certs. :(
A wonderful crosswalk hack hits Silicon Valley.
Android to add force restarting ahead of schedule. Maybe.
The EFF is never happy. But especially now, about Florida.
Interesting research into ransomware payouts.
Windows Sandbox: The amazing gem hidden inside all Windows 10 & 11!
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2:53:22
SN 1021: Device Bound Session Credentials - Hotpatching in Win 11, Apple vs. UK
Android to get "Lockdown Mode".
What's in the new editions of Chrome and Firefox?
Why did Apple silently re-enable automatic updates?
My new iPhone 16, Chinese tariffs and electronics.
Dynamic "hotpatching" coming to Win11 Enterprise & Edu.
Why is it so difficult for Oracle to fess up?
Another multi-year breach inside US Treasury.
An Apple -vs- the UK update.
"Thundermail" (Can't someone come up with a better name?)
The (in)Security of Programmable Logic Controllers.
When LLM's write code and hallucinate non-existent packages.
Wordpress core security and PHP gets an important audit.
Device-Bound Session Credentials update session cookie technology
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3:14:37
SN 1020: Multi-Perspective Issuance Corroboration - IoT Done Right, France Phishes, Gmails E2EE
Canon printer driver vulnerabilities enable Windows kernel exploitation.
Astonishing cyber-security awareness from a household appliance manufacturer.
France tries to hook 2.5 million school children with a Phishing test.
Wordpress added an abuse prone feature in 2022. Guess what happened?
Oracle? Is there something you'd like to tell us?
Utah's governor just signed the App Store Accountability Act. Now what?
AI bots hungry for new data are DDoSing FOSS projects.
No Microsoft Account? No Microsoft Windows 11.
Gmail claims it now offers E2EE. It kinda sorta does. Somewhat.
A dreaded CVSS 10.0 was discovered in Apache Parquet.
A bunch of terrific listener feedback.
What's Multi-Perspective Issuance Corroboration and why must all certificate authorities now do it?
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3:08:26
SN 1019: EU OS - Troy Hunt Phished, Ransomware List, InControl
Kuala Lumpur International Airport says no to a ransom attack, switches to whiteboard.
A tired and jet-lagged Troy Hunt got Phished then listed himself on his own site.
Cloudflare completely pulls the plug on port 80 (HTTP) API access.
Malware is switching to obscure languages to avoid detection. FORTH, anyone?
Password reuse doesn't appear to be dropping. Cloudflare has numbers.
A listener shares his log of malicious Microsoft login attempts. Why no geofencing?
23andMe down for the count (reminder).
A sobering Ransomware attack & victim listing website. Gulp!
"InControl" keeps VR planes aloft.
And the European Union gets serious about a switch to Linux
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1019-Notes.pdf
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