SN 1014: FREEDOM Administration Login - Apple's UK Privacy Showdown, $1.5 Billion Crypto Heist
Update: 2025-02-26
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- Apple disables Advanced Data Protection for new UK users.
- Paying ransoms is not as cut and dried as we might imagine.
- Elon Musk's "X" social media blocks "Signal.me" links.
- Spain's soccer league blocks Cloudflare and causes a mess.
- Two new (and rare) vulnerabilities discovered in OpenSSH.
- The U.S. seems unable to evict Chinese attackers from its Telecom systems.
- What are those Chinese "Salt Typhoon" hackers doing to get in?
- The largest (by far) cryptocurrency heist in history occurred Friday.
- Ex-NSA head says the U.S. is falling behind on the cyber front lines.
- We have the winner (and a good one) replacement term for "backdoor".
- A look at a pathetic access control system that begs to be hacked (and will be).
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1014-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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