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iTunes ZeroDayAttackers hide behind trusted domains, HTTPSAPI Security: Confessions of a non-programming infosec junkyFacebook debuts latest PyTorch w/ Google TPU supportCan the Girl Scouts save the moon from cyberattack?Making DevSecOps part of your cultureFlaw in Cyberoam firewalls exposed…

Whatever's bothering you probably isn't that big a deal. If you're even more out of the loop than I am, then, well, go to Google news and search on London and you'll find out that three Underground stations and a bus were bombed today. To borrow Wil Wheaton's phrase "send some mojo."My Mom would…

Britain's new head of GCHQ has barely started in his new job, and already he's making people mad. In an op-ed for the Financial Times, Robert Hannigan called US-based tech companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter the "command and control networks of choice for terrorists and criminals." Hannigan…

Sam Machkovech from Ars Technica walks through HTC's Vive Flow announcement and tries to determine who this new VR headset is actually for.Steve Stecklow from Reuters discusses his special report on how Amazon created knock-off products and promoted them in search over competitors.Jason and Mikah…

Brian Krebs, Akamai and Google's Project Shield, Yahoo's record-breaking, massive 500 million user data breach, Apple's acknowledged iOS 10 backup PBKDF flaw, well known teen hacker jailbreaks his new iPhone 7 in 24 hours, Microsoft formally allows removal of "Get Windows 10", a new OpenSSL SERVER…

Leo Laporte and Jason Howell talk about voting machines, Jason gives us his hands-on impressions of Google's VR headset 'Daydream View.' Megan Morrone tours and suits up at 2K Games' motion capture studio. In 'Call for Help,' we pit the Surface Pro 4, iPad Pro, and Pixel C against each other in the…

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Google will change search to favor quality, reliability, and authority. But what is "quality?" Amazon Look is an Echo with a camera and sharp fashion sense. Goodbye, Net Neutrality. Twitter beats the street. Uber almost gets kicked out of the App Store and breaks the heart of Unroll Me's CEO…

Netflix gets hacked and new episodes of Orange Is the New Black were leaked. Do smartphones need antivirus? Leo has 7 precautions you can take to stay safe online, and antivirus software isn't one of them. Johnny Jet talks about frequent flyer miles and United changes its policies…

No more Pixel laptops. Google's confusing Android Messages strategy hinges on RCS. Uber sued by Waymo and women, and yelled at by its own drivers. Amazon S3 outage. Is posting on Facebook a Constitutional right? YouTube's streaming TV service. Boston Dynamics' Handle robot, robot-made pizza, and…

CES 2017: The year of Alexa. Apple has "a great holiday," but misses 2016 sales targets. Mark Zuckerberg could run for President and still run Facebook. Samsung gets a fourth-quarter profit, even after Note 7 recall. Russia demands that Google and Apple pull LinkedIn from their stores.Phillip Elmer…

The US Federal Trade Commission steps into the IoT and home networking malpractice world, a radio station learns a lesson in what words NOT to repeat, Google plans to even eliminate the checkbox, a crucial caveat to the "passwords are long enough" argument, more cause to be wary of third-party…

A classic bug at GoDaddy bypassed domain validation for 8850 issued certificates, could flashing a peace sign compromise your biometric data?, it's not only new IoT devices that may tattle, many autos have been able to for the past 15 years, McDonald's gets caught in a web security bypass, more…

Jeff Jarvis' report from the World Economic Forum in Davos. Artificial intelligences of the future. Google smartwatch with Android Wear 2.0 to launch February 9th. The most common passwords of 2016. Chelsea Manning's sentence commuted. Samsung Galaxy Note 7 battery fires caused by... the battery,…

Silicon Valley's reaction to Trump's immigration ban and plans for the coming apocalypse. Hugo Barra joins Facebook as VP of VR. Google killed 1.7 bad ads last year. Sprint buys a third of Tidal. Five states will legalize the "Right to Repair" your own tech. 3D TV is dead.Owen J.J. Stone thinks…

Leo Laporte's pick of the week on MacBreak Weekly 537 is Radio.Garden. This is a map of live radio stations all over the world. To tune into a station, just spin the Google Earth-like globe. In addition to listening to live streaming radio, you can listen to historical broadcasts and a selection of…

Java browser plugs-ins are slowly dying. Amazon might be developing a new streaming music service that's cheaper if you have the Amazon Echo. Christina Warren is here to explain Apple's prong-gate and how to understand Kanye West on Twitter. Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai from Motherboard talks…

Tonight we're joined by Owen JJ Stone (aka OhDoctah) and Mathew Ingram from Fortune. We discuss the end to the FBI's claim that an unnamed third-party has unlocked the iPhone 5c that was used last year by a terrorist in San Bernardino. Next, we talk about Google's new Fiber phone, Instagram's 60…

It's an All About Android cast takeover with Florence Ion and Ron Richards joining Jason Howell on the show. Thankfully, there's very little Android news to report, including the reveal of the Tesla Model 3. Also, Google is known for its April Fools' Day jokes, but the inclusion of a special button…

Leo and I catch up with another packed week of security news, including an update on mobile ransomware, the successful extraction of Android's full disk encryption (FDE) master keys, Google's Tavis Ormandy finds horrific flaws in all Symantec traffic analyzing software, a Brazilian judge is at it…

Jonathan Strickland from How Stuff Works joins Jason Howell to discuss Snapchat's new Memories feature that let's users hold onto those snaps forever in the cloud. Google is making more acquisitions that could further improve its image recognition prowess. The European Parliament is looking to…

Jason Howell and Fr. Robert Ballecer discuss Valve's public word as it plans to shut down third-party gambling sites associated with CS:GO. Nest has another product to show off, this time shining a camera on the outside of the home. Google continues to fall under the ire of the EU, this time facing…

More tech leaders are speaking out against President Donald Trump's response to the racist violence in Charlottesville and donating to non-profits.If you've ever wanted to wander around inside stranger's homes, now you can with Google Earth.Nokia's new bothie phone is a 5.3” smartphone with the top…

Stephen Hall from 9to5Google talks about the Pixel burn-in problem. Brian Russell Davis from Axiom88 talks about a project that uses data science to detect how often an Uber driver runs a red light. Steve Gibson from Security Now warns about the upcoming Reaper botnet storm. And Kurt Wagner from…

Apple beats Google's worth, Olympics online, Chinese arrest Twitterer, BSOD, RIAA, Netflix crash, and more.Links to all our stories are at http://del.icio.us/twit/156.Audible pick of the week: John Adams (Unabridged) by David McCullough, narrated by Nelson Runger. For your free audio book, visit…

The Voice is silent, expected iPod announcements, tablets, Mac Pros, the Google browser, and more.Audible pick of the week: New Europe, Abridged, by Michael Palin, narrated by Michael Palin. To sign up for your free Audible book, go to audible.com/macbreak.Bandwidth for MacBreak Weekly is provided…

Dan Ackerman from CNET has the MacBook Air M2 in hand and talks about his review of the device.Richard Lawler from The Verge discusses how Netflix is partnering with Microsoft and its ad platform to start an ad-supported streaming tier.Jason talks about how kids and teens are spending more time on…

An infectious Robin flying around, a critical OpenSSL vulnerability, access control, AI-based object detection, and more.Square/Block sells access to your inbox, but does the law care?Raspberry Robin worm infecting several endpointsCritical flaw present in OpenSSL 3.0 and aboveApple's awkward…

Jared Newman from Fast Company talks about some big changes coming to traditional cable internet companies and why 5G is causing these changes.Tate Ryan-Mosley of MIT Technology Review discusses beauty filters and the bans these filters are facing online. Jason talks about an AI-generated…

NSA Cybersecurity Director Says ‘Buckle Up’ for Generative AIAs sea levels rise, the East Coast is also sinkingRussian Bank Releases a ChatGPT RivalGoogle's New Cloud-Based Authentication Isn't End-to-End Encrypted YetThe FDA's Medical Device Cybersecurity Overhaul Has Real Teeth, Experts SayHigh…

Google is all in on payments, and to that end, it’s testing a new pilot program in the San Francisco South Bay called Hands Free. Lindsey Turrentine from CNET is here to talk about The Last Taco Truck in Silicon Valley. What happens when Kevin Roose from Fusion.net invites hackers into his life…

Explore the history of rapid transit from the Alden StarrCar to the self-driving car. Google continues to push its Neural network to the limits. You can watch Amazon's new show, even without a Prime subscription, as long as you're willing to watch ads. Season 3 of the Reality Show Fashion Fund, is…

Is it time for you to up your network game? If so, THIS is the episode for you! Padre and Jason Howell take a look at some of the basic features of a Synology Network Attached Storage box in the first of several episodes about expanding your networking horizons. Learn how to automatically backup…

Leo Laporte: It's time for TWiT, This Week in Tech! What a great panel we have! Alex Wilhelm is here from Tech Crunch, Natali Morris from Natalie Morris, and my old buddy Patrick Norton from Tek Thing. We're going to talk about the latest news from Oculus. We've got Apple phones, we'll talk about…

Leo Laporte: It's time for Windows Weekly. Mary Jo Foley is on her way back from Europe, so it's just me and Paul. That means that we can talk a little bit about Xbox, in fact we've got some really good Black Friday deals including, and Paul is going to explain how this works, one of the best…

Leo Laporte:  It's time for TWiT, This Week in Tech!  Great panel for you!  Phillip Elmer Dewitt is here, he's the king of Apple, journalism, and we're going to talk about the tenth anniversary of the iPhone.  It's tomorrow, might even re visit that amazing announcement. …

Leo Laporte: It's time for TWiT, This Week in Tech.  Mike Elgan is here, Jason Calacanis. Lots of financial news, we'll talk about all the quarterly reports from Google, Facebook, Apple, Twitter. We'll also talk about virtual reality, we'll talk about the new Tesla, the new Giga factory, it's…

Please be advised this transcript is AI-generated and may not be word for word. Time codes refer to the approximate times in the ad-supported version of the show.Jason Howell (00:00:00):Coming up on Security Now it's me, Jason Howell sitting in for Leo Laport, who is on a cruise at the moment. So…

Is the iPhone X killing iPhone 8 sales? How do you turn on the FM chip in the iPhone 8? (You can't.) How do you turn off the Bluetooth in the Apple Watch (You can , but it's harder than you think.) How do you turn off Wi-Fi and LTE on the Apple Watch 3? (Just walk into a Starbucks.) Google is about…

This week we discuss some aspects of iOS v11, the emergence of browser hijack cryptocurrency mining, new information about the Equifax hack, Google security research and Gmail improvements, breaking DKIM without breaking it, concerns over many servers in small routers and aging unpatched…

Richard North was the dog that caught the bus when all of a sudden his open source project, Testcontainers, took off, and now has more than a million monthly downloads and developers using it at Netflix, Uber, Spotify, Google and other settings large and small. Doc Searls and Dan Lynch talk with…

PingBack MalwareFBI, NSA, CISA and NCSC issue joint advisory on Russia's foreign intelligence serviceHundreds of millions of Dell computers could be vulnerable to attackPanda Malware collects your cryptocurrencyGoogle plans to automatically enable two-factor authentication to better secure…

Carolina Milanesi from Creative Strategies breaks down the biggest announcements from Amazon's Alexa Live 2021 developer conference.Right to Repair got a huge boost by the Federal Trade Commission and Taylor Dixon from iFixit is pleasantly surprised by how specific the policy is.Right before…

macOS High Sierra is out, and one researcher has already found a big security flaw. Apple says goodbye to Bing and hello again to Google. iPhone 8 and Apple Watch 3 are in the public's hands. Apple Watch's "LTE bug" isn't a problem with LTE at all. Apple TV's 4K update has its share of issues.Andy…

The dangers of listening to Jeff JarvisYouTubers unionizingPixel 4 features: gesture control, face unlockWhy Google is paying people $5 for their faceApple buying Intel's modem business makes no damn senseDo filter bubbles really exist? NO. Why tech journalism gets it wrongFacebook quarterly…

This Week's StoriesBlackHat and Def Con 2019Microsoft dangles $300,000 for Azure hacks at BlackHat...Hotel chaos from Germany's Chaos Computer Club40 dangerous driversGoogle’s battle to allow its Incognito users' Incognitoness to be IncognitoMicrosoft ranks the industry's top bug huntersApple bumps…

Last week's Patch Tuesday March MadnessWin7 SHA256 Windows Update... UpdateMany attacks leveraging the recently discovered WinRAR vulnerabilityWhat happens when Apple, Google, and GoDaddy all drop a bit?A big recent jump in Mirai Botnet CapabilityCompromised Counter-Strike…

This Week's StoriesThe next round of Intel processor information leakage problems: Microarchitectural Data Sampling vulnerabilitiesLast Tuesday's patches from Microsoft, Adobe and Apple includes one for Windows XPSecurity problem for Cisco that ever has stock analysts taking noticeOngoing troubles…

Megan Morrone speaks with Jessica Powell, Google's former VP of Communications and author of The Big Disruption: A Totally Fictional But Essentially True Silicon Valley Story, about why big tech isn't inherently evil and how, through Silicon Valley's monoculture, they keep expanding their…

Rockbox, the open source firmware that runs on many MP3 players.Here's what's coming up for FLOSS in the future. Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email Randal at merlyn@stonehenge.com.Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this podcast, and Lullabot's Jeff…