Security Now with Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Sep 12th 2023

Security Now 939

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Online Safety Bill, Microsoft Outlook breach details, auto brand data privacy

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Category: Help & How To
  • UK government appears to back down on demands to break encryption in Online Safety Bill
  • Microsoft reveals how China-based hackers acquired secret key used to breach Outlook accounts
  • Multiple flaws allowed key to improperly leave highly secure environment
  • Mozilla research finds all major auto brands fail on privacy protection
  • Evidence suggests LastPass encrypted vault data is being decrypted
  • Researchers tie $35M in crypto thefts to compromised LastPass accounts
  • Brute force feasible on old low iteration count passwords

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-939-Notes.pdf

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