Security Now with Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Dec 3rd 2019

Security Now 743

Android "StrandHogg"

Nursing Home Ransomware, Free Win10 Upgrade

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Category: Help & How To

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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