US Moves to Ban TP‑Link and Hardware Security Concerns

Presented by Material Security: We protect your company’s most valuable materials -- the emails, files, and accounts that live in your Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 cloud offices.

Three Buddy Problem - Episode 71: The buddies travel to Canada for a live recording at the Countermeasure conference, discussing the Google v FFmpeg open-source patching brouhana, ransomware negotiators charged and linked to ransomware attacks, the looming TP-Link ban in the U.S., and the discovery of LANDFALL, an APT attack caught using a Samsung mobile zero-day.

Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu.

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• Material Security — We protect your company’s most valuable materials — the emails, files, and accounts that live in your Google Workspace & Microsoft 365 cloud offices.
• Transcript (unedited, AI-generated)
• FFmpeg complains about Google BigSleep AI
• Google v FFmpeg brouhaha
• Curl's Daniel Stenberg on a new breed of AI analyzers
• unit42.paloaltonetworks.com
• iOS 26.1 security updates
• U.S. agencies back banning TP-Link home routers on security grounds
• TLP BLACK