Security Now
SN 697: Zerodium
- The implications of the recent increase in bounty for the purchase of 0-day vulnerabilities.
- The intended and unintended consequences of last week's Windows Patch Tuesday.
- Speaking of unintended consequences, the US Government shutdown has had some, too!
- A significant privacy failure in WhatsApp.
- Another Ransomware decryptor (with a twist).
- Movement on the DNS-over-TLS front.
- An expectation of the cyberthreat landscape for 2019.
- A cloudy forecast for The Weather Channel App.
- A successful 51% attack against the Ethereum Classic cryptocurrency.
- Another court reversing compelled biometric authentication.
- An update on the lingering death of Flash... now in hospice care.
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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SN 696: Here Comes 2019!
- The NSA announces the forthcoming release of an internal powerful reverse-engineering tool for examining and understanding other people's code.
- Emergency out-of-cycle patches from both Adobe and Microsoft.
- PewDiePie hacker strikes again.
- Prolific 0-day dropper SandboxEscaper ruffles some feathers.
- A new effort by the US government to educate industry about the risks of Cyber attacks.
- Welcome news on the ransomware front.
- VERY welcome news of a new Windows 10 feature.
- A note about a just-published side-channel attack on OS page caches.
We invite you to read our show notes.
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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.
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SN 695: Our Best of 2018
The Best of Security Now from 2018!
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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.
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