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Video Description
How secure are your Chrome extensions and certificate signings really? This episode pulls back the curtain on a massive spyware discovery and exposes the convoluted hoops developers must jump through to prove their identity in 2026.
• Websites can place high demands upon limited CPU resources.
• Microsoft appears to back away from its security commitment.
• What's Windows 11 26H1 and where do I get it.
• Chrome 145 brings Device Bound Session Credentials.
• More countries are moving to ban underage social media use.
• The return of Roskomnadzor.
• Discord to require proof of adulthood for adult content.
• Might you still be using WinRAR 7.12 -- I was.
• Paragon's Graphite can definitely spy on all instant messaging.
• 30 malicious Chrome Extensions.
• 287 Chrome extensions from spying on 37.4 million users.
• The first malicious Outlook add-in steals 4000 user's credentials.
• Some AI "vibe" coding thoughts.
• What I just went through to obtain a new code signing certificate
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1065-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
Security Now episode 1065
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