Android Security, Windows 7 Security, Microsoft Defender.

• Google to get even more proactive about Android security
• Why are people sticking with Windows 7?
• And Google funds a JavaScript research engine
• Microsoft Defender gets in Vitro Updating
• WSL 2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux v2) completely bypasses the hosting Windows 10 firewall
• Most Microsoft Exchange Servers remain unpatched after 9 eight months!
• Cloudflare has just added a free web API firewall service for all customers
• US Dept of the Treasury tightens up on Ransomware payments
• UEFI Bootkits are becoming more mainstream

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-787-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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