• 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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