August 05, 2025

Security Now 1037: Chinese Participation in MAPP

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2 hours 47 minutes

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

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.

You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page.

For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.

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August 05, 2025

Security Now 1037: Chinese Participation in MAPP

Listen Later

2 hours 47 minutes

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

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.

You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page.

For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.

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Melissa.com/twit

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