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Cross Site Request Forgery

Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte

Steve tells you why you must always explicitly log out from banking and other important sites.

Audible pick: METAtropolis. To sign up for a free audio book, visit AudiblePodcast.com/securitynow.

For 16kpbs 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.

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Security is a process and a state of mind - not a place that can be reached in a day of travel. It is very important to get your software updates. While this doesn’t guarantee iron-clad security it will improve your chances of being secure.

Microsoft Security Bulletin for October 2008

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Release The McCracken

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Tom Merritt, Scott Rosenberg, and Harry McCracken

Apple’s pending announcement, GeoEye, RealDVD banned, Android, Garriott’s biggest launch, and more.

Links to all our stories are at http://del.icio.us/twit/164.

Audible pick of the week: METAtropolis. Various chapters written by John Scalzi, Elizabeth Bear, Jay Lake, Tobias Buckell, and Karl Schroeder. Various chapters narrated by Michael Hogan, Alessandro Juliani, Kandyse McClure, Scott Brick, and Stefan Rudnicki. The first chapter, by Jay Lake, is free this week to TWiT listeners only, and can be found at Audible.com/twitmeta.

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Microsoft Strata

Hosts: Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte

Microsoft Strata, Live Framework, Hyper-V, Android and Storm, Xbox Experience, and more.

• Windows Strata: Microsoft’s cloud computing platform gets a name
• Live Mesh might be named Live Framework, will likely run on top of Strata
• Thoughts on standalone Hyper-V
• Google Android and RIM Blackberry Storm
• New Xbox Experience coming November 19; Duke Nukem 3D is on Xbox Live Arcade now

Tip of the week: Think 64

Software of the Week: AssaultCube

Audible pick of the week: Planet Google: One Company’s Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know, Unabridged, By Randall Stross, Narrated by William Hughes. For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/windows.

Check out Paul’s blog at http://www.internet-nexus.com and the SuperSite for Windows http://winsupersite.com for more information.

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MitNicked

Hosts: Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, Patrick Norton, and Veronica Belmont

Special Guests: Kevin Mitnick and Ryan Block

Kevin Mitnick’s airport detainment, Craigslist bank robber, Steve Jobs is alive, and more.

Links to all our stories are at http://del.icio.us/twit/163.

Audible pick of the week: Anathem, Unabridged, By Neal Stephenson, Narrated by Oliver Wyman, Tavia Gilbert, William Dufris, Neal Stephenson. Get two free audiobooks when you sign up for Audible’s Platinum offer at Audible.com/twit2.

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p.s. yes I did miss posting a reminder for TWiT #162: Wedding Jitter Twitter.

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Issue #17

* Command and Conquer - Nano & Vim.
* How-To : Program in C - Part 1, Connect to IRC, Using GIMP - Part 6 and Scan & Convert to PDF.
* My Story - …When I Was Two
* My Opinion - Is This The Year?
* MOTU Interview - Harald Sitter
* Top 5 - Email Notifiers

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DOWNLOAD ISSUE 18 HERE (October 2008)

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