This Week's Stories:

• Cryptomining makes a comeback
• The top three most attacked ports
• Small office/home office (SOHO) routers and wireless access points: "SOHOpelessly Broken"
• Chrome gets an emergency update, to 77.0.3865.90
• 2019 CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors

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This Week's Stories

• SIMjacker allows attackers to hijack any phone just by sending it an SMS message.
• Here comes iOS "Lucky" 13!
• Chrome follows Mozilla to DoH with a twist.
• Want to enable DoH in Chrome right now? You can, right now, if you wish.
• Chrome stops showing Extended Validation certs in the URL bar.
• Mozilla launches 'Firefox Private Network' VPN service as a browser extension.
• Windows Patch Tuesday redux
• Chrome Remote Desktop
• EXIM eMail servers are in trouble again.

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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This week's stories:

• Get rich quick spotting deepfakes!
• A forced two-day recess of all schools in Flagstaff, Arizona
• The case of a ransomware operator being too greedy
• Apple's controversial response to Google's discovery of Chinese iOS hacks
• Zerodium's new payout schedule and what it might mean.
• The final full public disclosure of BlueKeep exploitation code
• Serious PHP flaws, some potentially serious flaws found

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-731-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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This Week's Stories:

• Google expands its bug bounty program
• New bug bounty millionaires
• Google's Project Zero group dropped a bomb on iOS
• Ransomware attacks on local governments and businesses are on the rise

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• Texas Ransomware Update
• Remember that Kazakhstan cert?
• The mixed-blessing of "wide open" source projects
• RubyGems is in trouble again
• Chrome to add data breach notification
• iOS v12.4 updated quickly to 12.4.1
• Next-gen ad privacy

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• Last Tuesday was another busy and important patch Tuesday
• And speaking of Patch Tuesday... 3rd-Party A/V Strikes Again!
• Kaspersky facilitates independent web tracking
• So, what the heck is "CTF"?
• 23 Government agencies in Texas were hit with a well-coordinated ransomware attack last Friday, August 16th
• RIP, EV: The coming demise of Extended Validation (EV) certificates
• And... So long FTP!
• HTTP/2 goes to the Movies
• "The KNOB is Broken: Exploiting Low Entropy in the Encryption Key Negotiation Of Bluetooth BR/EDR"

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This Week's Stories

• BlackHat and Def Con 2019
• Microsoft dangles $300,000 for Azure hacks at BlackHat...
• Hotel chaos from Germany's Chaos Computer Club
• 40 dangerous drivers
• Google's battle to allow its Incognito users' Incognitoness to be Incognito
• Microsoft ranks the industry's top bug hunters
• Apple bumps its bounties

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-727-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Jason Howell

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This week's stories
• A widespread false alarm about Facebook's planned subversion of end-to-end encryption
• Still more municipality Ransomware attacks
• Anti-encryption saber rattling among the Five Eyes nations
• Microsoft's discovery of Russian-backed IoT compromise
• Chrome 76's changes
• Black Hat and Def Con preview
• The challenge of synchronizing a working set of files between two locations

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This Week's Stories

• Marcus Hutchins ... is Free!
• U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr on "warrant proof data encryption"
• What malware is the most popular underground?
• This Week in Ransomware
• Your NAS is Grass!
• 11 vulnerabilities in VxWorks' TCP/IP stack

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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This Week's Stories

• Welcome to Kazakhstan! Please check your privacy at the border.
• Mozilla marking all non-HTTPS pages as "not secure"
• Chrome Incognito Mode getting a bit more incognito
• A forthcoming "super Incognito mode" for Firefox
• Rust-TLS outperforms OpenSSL in nearly every way
• Microsoft announces "ElectionGuard" during last week's Aspen Security Forum
• ProFTPD Server is wide open to remote compromise
• Sophos: "RDP exposed: the wolves already at your door"

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-724-Notes.pdf

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