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On this Eve of 2020, we look back over the hacks of the past decade:

• The big news of 2010 was Stuxnet -- Boy did THAT make an impression
• Operation Aurora - the hack that changed Google
• The Sony Playstation Hack
• And then we have... Diginotar
• Edward Snowden
• The Target hack
• The Adobe hack
• Silk Road takedown
• Have I Been Pwned?
• The hack of Sony Pictures
• The hack of Mt. Gox
• Heartbleed
• RowHammer
• Ashley Madison data breach
• SIM swapping
• The Ukraine power grid hacks
• DNC hack
• Yahoo hacks go public
• The Shadow Brokers
• The birth of IoT botnets
• WannaCry / Petya / NotPetya
• Vault7 leaks
• MongoDB exposed
• Equifax
• Coinhive & Cryptojacking
• Meltdown, Spectre, and the CPU side-channel attacks
• Marriott gets hacked
• 2019 - The Year of the Ransomware

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-746-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Leo Laporte answers Jim's question about how to upgrade to Windows 10 for free. Get yours before Microsoft stops support for Windows 7 on January 14th, 2020.

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Host: Leo Laporte

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Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Sam Abuelsamid and Chris Marquardt

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On This Week in Tech's 2019 Holiday Special, Leo Laporte, Stacey Higginbotham, Mary Jo Foley, and Mikah Sargent run down the top Tech News stories of 2010 - 2019.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, Stacey Higginbotham, and Mikah Sargent

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Can you save money with Youtube TV? Android phone recommendations, why powerline broadband isn't as big as it could be, getting your VOIP service back, protecting your bank information online, and more of your calls!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick DeBartolo

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Leo Laporte, Ant Pruitt, Jason Howell, and Mikah Sargent share their favorite tech gadgets of 2019.

Ant's picks:
Logitech MX Master 3 https://twit.to/hot72a
Google Pixel 4 https://twit.to/hot72b
Wacom Cintiq 16 https://twit.to/hot72c

Jason's picks:
Google Pixel 3a https://twit.to/hot72d
OnePlus 7 Pro https://twit.to/hot72e
Oculus Quest https://twit.to/hot72f

Mikah's picks:
Apple Watch Series 5 https://twit.to/hot72h
Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 https://twit.to/hot72i
Beddr SleepTuner https://twit.to/hot72j

Leo's picks:
Apple iPhone 11 Pro https://twit.to/hot72k
Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch https://twit.to/hot72l
Sony a7R IV https://twit.to/hot72m
Peak Design Clutch CL-3 https://twit.to/hot72n
Sony ECM-B1M https://twit.to/hot72o
Peak Design Travel Tripod https://twit.to/hot72p
Google Nest Hub Max https://twit.to/hot72q

Bonus pick: Insta360 One X https://twit.to/hot72g

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jason Howell, Mikah Sargent, and Ant Pruitt

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This Week's Stories:

Chris Capossela is back!

• Microsoft CMO Chris Capossela returns for our favorite holiday tradition.

Xbox Series X

• Microsoft unexpectedly announces the name of the next Xbox console
• Yes, it's a terrible name
• The "real" name of the console generation is just... Xbox
• Yes, it's one of at least two console versions (expect an Xbox Series S too)
• Given this, should be called Xbox, Series X.
• Come on, isn't everyone thinking of Windows Phone 7 Series? Do these people ever learn?

Windows 10 vNext (and vNext Next)

• Confusion reigns: Microsoft releases a new Fast ring build that is post-20H1
• But it contains improvements that may or may not be in the next version of Windows 10. And the one after that...

Windows 10

• You can now make/receive phone calls with Your Phone! (Android only)
• Your Phone will soon support 2000 phone photos (up from 25)
• Bing Visual Search comes to Windows 10
• Semi-related: Invoke users experiences weird outages over the past two weeks. Resetting seems to help, but expect this speaker to continue losing functionality over time.

Microsoft Edge

• Microsoft will very aggressively push aside legacy Edge in January when the new Edge appears
• It's like the old Edge never happened
• Developers can now publish extensions to the new Edge extensions store

Xbox

• Halo: The Master Chief Collection is off to a fast start on PC. Hey Mikey! They like it!
• Microsoft announces remaining Game Pass for console titles for December
• Activision cites massive success for latest Call of Duty

Tips and picks

• Tip of the week: Stay tuned for the Chris Cap giveaway! Check-in with Thurrott.com this week for the details about the Microsoft hardware and software giveaways for Windows Weekly.
• App pick of the week: Adobe Lightroom (Microsoft Store version)
• Enterprise pick of the week: Windows Server 20 04
• Codename pick of the week: Alta
• Beer pick of the week: Prairie Christmas Bomb

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott

Guest: Chris Capossela

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This Week's Stories

• Google, Apple, Amazon, Zigbee, and others join to make universal IoT standard
• Motherboard has it out for Ring
• Google wants to beat Microsoft and Amazon in the cloud by 2023
• "Hey Google, that wasn't for you" deletes what you just said
• California AB5 will kill the gig economy in 2020
• Facebook says it already complies with California's new consumer privacy law
• Facebook funding independent content oversight board with $130m
• USDA drops Wakanda as a free trade partner
• New Orleans narrowly avoids ransomware nightmare
• Never cross Greta. She wins vs. German rail company
• The US swipes Snowden's book profits
• Top 10 apps of 2019
• ICANN may block the sale of .org to Ethos Capital
• The Far Side is coming back

Picks of the Week

• Jeff's Thing: Beddr SleepTuner
• Ant's Thing: Be mindful of your holiday lights
• Stacey's Thing: SmartDry wireless laundry sensor

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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This Week's Stories:

• Google turns over 1500 users' location data to catch Milwaukee arsonist
• Android's Messenger app offers its users verified SMS messaging conversations with supporting companies
• US Senate Judiciary Committee threatens Apple and Facebook
• Apple's iOS v13.3 adds support for hardware key dongle authentication in Safari
• Patch Tuesday shuts down a widespread elevation of privilege vulnerability
• Researchers discover prime factor collisions in active RSA certificates
• New Orleans hit by a ransomware attack on Friday the 13th
• Chrome stops displaying "www."
• Google re-enables their Chrome's new code integrity protection feature
• Plundervolt: software-based fault injection attacks against Intel SGX

We invite you to read our show notes at

https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-745-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Download or subscribe to this show 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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This Week's Stories

• Mac Pro Teardown: yes, it grates cheese!
• Apple patents in-screen fingerprint reader
• BetterTouchTool is a great tool for MacBook Pros
• Apple Makes Mac Pros for the US in Texas, the rest of the world in China
• Apple dodges 15% tariff on Chinese imports
• AirPods make Apple $4 Billion per quarter
• HomeKit could be Apple's next big business
• Three Apple products make Time's top 10 gadgets of the decade
• Apple kills app that turns your iPhone into an iPod
• Apple is moving to Pittsburgh
• MKBHD's 2019 Blind Smartphone Camera Test
• Apple buys British company to make iPhone camera better
• Bug in iOS lets kids skirt parental controls in contacts
• Apple Arcade deal: get 12 months for the price of 10
• Apple Arcade gets Ultimate Rivals: The Rink
• Apple News gets election coverage from ABC
• Get your Christmas movie classics for cheap at the Apple store
• Tim Cook loves monopolies!
• Apple is hiring!
• Apple gives free genetic screening to its employees

Picks of the Week

• Leo's Pick: Peak Design Travel Tripod
• Andy's Pick: Inigo Gets Out on Archive.org
• Rene's Picks: Digital Sputnik Voyager, Snowflake Weather
• Lory's Pick: Spirited Away
• Alex's Pick: SKAAT Car Vent Magnet

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Rene Ritchie, Lory Gil, and Alex Lindsay

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