• Consumer Reports on Windows 10 updates.
• Waste (not fraud or abuse) within DoD Cyberoperations.
• China's DeepSeek produces deliberately flawed code.
• WebAssembly v3.0 officially released.
• Firefox v143 updates and new features.
• Firefox for Android now offers DoH.
• A nearly terminal flaw in Microsoft's Entra ID.
• Chrome hits its 6th 0-day this year. Emergency update.
• DRAM (now DDR5) still vulnerable to RowHammer.
• SAMSUNG kitchen refrigerators begin showing ads.
• China says no to NVIDIA.
• 300 more (new) NPM maliciouspackages found and removed.
• The EU is already testing proper online age verification.

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1044-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Apple just rewrote the rules of device security with a chip-level upgrade that could wipe out most iPhone vulnerabilities overnight. Find out how "memory integrity enforcement" aims to make exploits a thing of the past—and why it took half a decade to pull off.

• Are Bitcoin ATMs anything more than scamming terminals.
• Ransomware hits the Uvalde school district and Jaguar.
• Did "Scattered LapSus Hunters" just throw in the towel.
• Germany, for one, to vote "no" on Chat Control.
• Russia's new MAX messenger has startup troubles.
• Samsung follows Apple's WhatsApp patch chain.
• Shocker: UK school hacks are mostly by students.
• HackerOne was hacked.
• Connected washing machines in Amsterdam hacked.
• DDoS breaks another record.
• Bluesky to implement conditional age verification.
• Enforcement actions for Global Privacy Control.
• Might Apple have finally beaten vulnerabilities

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1043-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Is the U.S. on the verge of legalizing "hack back" missions, turning private companies into sanctioned cyber warriors? Steve and Leo unpack Google's plan for a cyber disruption unit and why the lines between defense and digital retaliation are suddenly blurring.

• My experience with 'X' vs email.
• Google TIG blackmailed to fire two security researchers.
• 1.1.1.1 DNS TLS certificate mis-issued.
• Artists blackmailed with threats of training AI on their art.
• Firefox extended end-of-life for Windows 7 to next March.
• Is the renewal of cybersecurity info sharing coming soon.
• Should security analysis be censored due to vibe-coding.
• UK versus Apple may not be settled after all.
• Another very serious supply chain attack.
• Can the software supply-chain ever be trustworthy.
• Why did BYTE Magazine die.
• What happens if Google and others go on the attack

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1042-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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