Windows update kills printers & SSDs.

• Lamphone: eavesdrop on a hanging lightbulb
• Brave Browser caught and chastised for tweaking user-entered URLs for its benefit
• Microsoft breaks its own record for Patch Tuesday patches
• TFW Windows 10 loses your printer port
• Last week's Patch Tuesday broke ALL PRINTING (even to PDFs) for many users. Fix won't come for a month
• Windows 10 2004 update is messing up SSDs and non-SSDs
• SMBleed
• Subject: Your Site Has Been Hacked
• Authentic database ransom attacks
• Another side-channel attack on Intel chips

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