SN 1040: Clickjacking "Whac-A-Mole" - Inside the Password Manager Clickjacking Frenzy and What It Means
Alarm bells are ringing over a supposed browser zero-day, but is the threat as bad as it sounds? Steve reveals why "clickjacking" might be more whac-a-mole than breaking news, and what that really means for your passwords.
• Germany may soon outlaw ad blockers
• What's happening in the courts over AI
• The U.K. drops its demands of Apple
• New Microsoft 365 tenants being throttled
• Is Russia preparing to block Google Meet?
• Bluesky suspends its service in Mississippi
• How to throttle AI
• A tricky SSH-busting Go library
• Here comes the Linux desktop malware
• Apple just patched a doozy of a vulnerability
• A trivial Docker escape was found and fixed
• Why the recent browser 0-day clickjacking is really just whac-a-mole
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SN 1039: The Sad Case of ScriptCase - Data Brokers Dodge Deletion
What AI website summaries mean for Internet economics.
Time to urgently update Plex Servers (again).
Allianz Life stolen data gets leaked.
Chrome test Incognito-mode fingerprint script blocking.
Chrome 140 additions coming in 2 weeks.
Data brokers hide opt-out pages from search engines.
Secure messaging changes in Russia.
NIST rolls-out lightweight IoT crypto.
SyncThing moves to v2.0 and beyond.
Alien:Earth -- first take.
What can we learn from another critical vulnerability?
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SN 1038: Perplexity's Duplicity - Malicious Repository Libraries
CISA's Emergency Directive to ALL Federal agencies re: SharePoint.
NVIDIA firmly says "no" to any embedded chip gimmicks.
Dashlane is terminating its (totally unusable) free tier.
Malicious repository libraries are becoming even more hostile.
The best web filter (uBlock Origin) comes to Safari.
The very popular SonicWall firewall is being compromised.
>100 models of Dell Latitude and Precision laptops are in danger.
The significant challenge of patching SharePoint (for example).
A quick look at my DNS Benchmark progress.
Does InControl prevent an important update.
An venerable Sci-Fi franchise may be getting a great new series.
What to do about the problem of AI "website sucking"
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SN 1037: Chinese Participation in MAPP - Why Signal is Leaving Australia
A follow-up to the SharePoint server patch mess.
How Russia arranges to spy on other country's local embassies.
"Dropbox Passwords" manager app is ending in October.
Signal will leave Australia rather than help spy.
YouTube deploys viewing history age-estimation heuristics.
Chrome adds clever lightweight extension signing to prevent abuse.
A domain registrar is coming close to losing its rights.
A TP-Link router that doesn't encrypt its configuration.
What is "TruAge" and might it be useful for age verification.
An update on "Artemis".
With U.S.-China tensions on the rise, should Chinese security companies receive weeks of advance notice of forthcoming Microsoft flaw patches?
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1037-Notes.pdf
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SN 1036: Inside the SharePoint 0-day - Is Our Data Safe Anywhere?
Brave randomizes its fingerprints.
The next Brave will block Microsoft Recall by default.
Clorox sues its IT provider for $380 million in damages.
6-month Win10 ESU offers are beginning to appear.
Warfare has significantly become cyber.
Allianz Life loses control of 125 million customers' data.
The CIA's Acquisition Research Center website was hacked.
The Pentagon says the SharePoint RCE didn't get them.
A look at a DPRK "laptop farm" to impersonate Americans.
FIDO's passkey was NOT bypassed by a MITM after all.
Is our data safe anywhere?
The UK is trying to back-pedal out of the Apple ADP mess.
Meanwhile, the EU resumes its push for "Chat Control".
Microsoft fumbled the patch of a powerful Pwn2Own exploit
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1036-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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