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• Cellebrite unlocks Trump's would-be assassin's phone.
• Cisco reported on a CVSS of 10.0
• Entrust drops the other shoe
• Google gives up on removing 3rd-party cookies
• Miscellany
• Snowflake and data warehouse applications
• CDK auto dealership outage
• Polyfill.io and resource hashes
• MITM
• Blocking Copilot
• Blocking incoming connections via IP
• CrowdStruck

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-984-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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• Biden drops out of the race via tweet
• "CrowdStrike update that caused global outage likely skipped checks, experts say
• Amazon's Prime Day causes worker injuries, Senate probe finds
• Kaspersky Lab Closing U.S. Division; Laying Off Workers
• Researchers: Weak Security Defaults Enabled Squarespace Domains Hijacks
• The Paris Olympics Will Show Us the Future of Sports on TV
• Judge dismisses much of SEC suit against SolarWinds over cybersecurity disclosures
• FBI Used New Cellebrite Software to Access Trump Shooter's Phone
• Hundreds more Californians get housing with Apple's help
• Microsoft's new AI system 'SpreadsheetLLM' unlocks insights from spreadsheets, boosting enterprise productivity
• Bethesda Game Studios workers unionize under Communications Workers of America

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Lisa Schmeiser, Ashley Esqueda, and Anthony Ha

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• Using Content Delivery Networks Safely
• The CDK Global Ransomware Attack
• The IRS and Entrust
• Polyfill.io fallout
• Microsoft's Behavior
• A Snowflake's Chance

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-983-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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• Galaxy Z Fold 6 launches for $1,899 with wider displays
• FTC bans anonymous messaging app NGL from hosting children
• AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in new data breach
• EU accuses Elon Musk's X of deceptive practices over blue 'checkmark'
• After 41 years Microsoft quietly adds spellchecking and autocorrect to Windows Notepad
• AI PCs: Qualcomm (QCOM), Microsoft (MSFT) Turn to AI to Revive PC Market
• Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable
• U.S. says Russian bot farm used AI to impersonate Americans
• Disinfo spreaders set their sights on Paris Olympics
• My 28,000-follower Twitter account was hacked—and it changed my life for the better
• Is anyone concerned that Palmer Luckey's new compay Anduril (aka Aragorn's sword from LOTR) is making military products and has a mission statement straight out of Robocop?
• Apple now makes it easier to switch from Google Photos to iCloud Photos
• FTC Fires A Warning Shot At Eight Companies Over 'Right To Repair' Violations

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mike Elgan, Denise Howell, and Harry McCracken

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• Entrust Responds
• Other major Certificate Authorities respond
• Passkey Redaction Attacks
• Syncing passkeys
• Port Knocking
• Fail2Ban
• The Polyfill.io Attack

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-982-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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• Why Surgeon General's Social Media Warning Label is a Bad Idea
• Russia says Apple blocks 25 VPN apps in Russia, IFX reports
• Microsoft MSFT Tells Texas Agencies They Were Exposed in Russian Hack
• Microsoft says it's okay to steal content published on the web
• Declare your AIndependence: block AI bots, scrapers and crawlers with a single click
• Perplexity's grand theft AI
• The Julian Assange Saga Is Finally Over
• Zotac's Big Mistake | Consumer Warranty & Business Data Exposure
• NASA and SpaceX misjudged the risks from reentering space junk
• The White House will host a conference for social media creators
• Meta's Threads hits 175 million users one year after launch
• Google emissions jump nearly 50% over five years as AI use surges
• Judge blocks Mississippi law that required age verification on social media

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Paris Martineau, Allyn Malventano, and Larry Magid

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• The regreSSHion Bug
• 50BTC moved
• Voyager 1 Update
• Email @ GRC
• SyncThing
• DNS queries
• Recall
• The End of Entrust Trust

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-981-Notes.pdf

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Supreme Court Decisions, Snapdragon X Elite Tests

• Murthy Decision Should Not Foreclose Cases Against Actual First Amendment Violations
• What SCOTUS just did to broadband, the right to repair, the environment, and more
• Nearly 4,000 arrested in global police crackdown on online scam networks
• Mark Cuban's public email was hacked after receiving call from a fake Google rep
• The Julian Assange Saga Is Finally Over
• Microsoft's bundling of Office and Teams breaks antitrust law, EU says
• EU Competition Commissioner says Apple's decision to pull AI from EU shows anticompetitive behavior
• Microsoft says it's okay to steal content published on the web
• Microsoft's Surface Laptop 7 Copilot+ PC is finally the best clamshell laptop on the market after 8 years of iterations
• Tested: Don't buy a Snapdragon X Elite laptop for PC gaming
• Signal 65 Snapdragon battery testing
• The RIAA's lawsuit against generative music startups will be the bloodbath AI needs
• Wherein The Copia Institute Asks The Second Circuit To Stand Up For Fair Use, The Internet Archive, And Why We Bother To Have Copyright Law At All
• Redbox's owner files for bankruptcy after repeatedly missing payments and payroll

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Cathy Gellis, Ryan Shrout, and Doc Rock

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