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Sep 12
8m 54s

Microsoft Patches Zero Day And More

Jim Love
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Cybersecurity Today: Microsoft Patches, Canadian Data Breach, NVIDIA's New Tool, and a Senator's Call for Investigation

In this episode of Cybersecurity Today, host Jim Love discusses Microsoft's September patch update addressing 81 security flaws, including two zero-day vulnerabilities. Highlights include a data breach in Canada affecting email and phone numbers, NVIDIA's release of an open-source LLM vulnerability scanner, and US Senator Ron Wyden's call for the FTC to investigate Microsoft's security practices. The episode also clears up the mystery behind the bricked SSDs after a Windows 11 update.

00:00 Microsoft Patches 81 Flaws
02:29 Canadian Government Data Breach
03:38 NVIDIA's Garrick: AI Vulnerability Scanner
05:01 Senator Urges FTC to Probe Microsoft
06:52 Mystery of Bricked SSDs Solved
08:24 Conclusion and Upcoming Interview

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