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The Internet of Troubles (1x754)

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This Week's Stories How to fix the Windows 7 "You don’t have permission to shut down this computer." error Win10’s “One Button PC Reset” fails after KB4524244. And, also… “The new disappearing User Profile problem” (Desktop and all user data) The popular “GDPR Cookie Consent” Wordpress plugin had a critical flaw Whoa! The average tenure of a CISO is just 26 months due to high stress and burnout Microsoft’s “ElectionGuard” being used for the first time today! IoT lightbulb vulnerabilities are not such a joke, after all. SweynTooth Vulnerabilities: a set of more than 12 newly discovered vulnerabilities across a wide range of Bluetooth devices, many of which will never be updated, which allow for, among other things, full device compromise. We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-754-Notes.pdf 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.