Security Now with Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Jan 14th 2020

Security Now 749

Windows 7 - R. I. P.

Goodbye Windows 7, Hello Cablehaunt

Records live every Tuesday at 4:30pm Eastern / 1:30pm Pacific / 20:30 UTC.
Category: Help & How To

This Week's Stories:

  • Windows 7 support dies today, but 1 in 7 PCs are still running it
  • Cablehaunt- the remote exploit with the catchy logo that works on ALL cable modems
  • US government still wants backdoor access to iPhones
  • CheckRain iPhone jailbreak keeps getting better
  • How Apple scans your photos for evidence of child abuse
  • The sim swapping threat
  • Anatomy/timeline of the exploitation of an unpatched VPN bug
  • And speaking of patching right away… patch your Firefox browser right now!

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