Security Now (Audio)

This week Steve and Leo discuss the long-expected remote vulnerability in Intel's super-secret motherboard Management Engine technology, exploitable open ports in Android apps, another IoT blows a suspect's timeline, newly discovered problems in the Ghostscript interpreter, yet another way for ISPs and others to see where we go, a new bad problem in the Edge browser, Chrome changes its certificate policy, an interesting new "Vigilante Botnet" is growing fast, a proposed solution to smartphone-distracted driving, Ransomware as a service, Net Neutrality heads back to the chopping block (again), an intriguing new service from Cloudflare, and the ongoing Symantec certificate issuance controversy. Then some fun errata, miscellany, and some closing-the-loop feedback from our terrific listeners.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.Bandwidth for Security Now is provided by CacheFly.

This week Steve and Leo discuss how one of the NSA's Vault7 vulnerabilities has gotten loose, a clever hacker removes Microsoft deliberate (and apparently unnecessary) block on Win7/8.1 updates for newer processors, Microsoft refactors multifactor authentication, Google to add native ad-blocking to Chrome... and what exactly *are* abusive ads?, Mastercard to build a questionable fingerprint sensor into their cards, are Bose headphones spying on their listeners? 10 worrisome security holes discovered in Linksys routers, MIT cashes out half of its IPv4 space, and the return of two meaner BrickerBots. Then some Errata, a bit of Miscellany, and, time permitting, some "Closing the Loop" feedback from our podcast's terrific listeners.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.Bandwidth for Security Now is provided by CacheFly.

This week Steve and Leo discuss another new side-channel attack on smartphone PIN entry (and much more), Smartphone fingerprint readers turn out to be far more spoofable that we had hoped. All Linux kernels prior to v4.5 are vulnerable to a serious remote network attack over UDP, a way to prevent Google from tracking the search links we click (and to allow us to copy the links from the search results), the latest NSA Vault7 data dump nightmare, the problem with punycode domains, four years after the public UPnP router exposure, looking closely at the mixed blessing of hiding WiFi access point SSID broadcasts, some miscellany, and then a collection of quick "Closing The Loop" follow-ups from last week's "Proactive Privacy" podcast.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.Bandwidth for Security Now is provided by CacheFly.

This week Steve and Leo discuss Symantec finding 40 past attacks explained by the Vault7 document leaks, an incremental improvement coming to CA certificate issuance, Microsoft patches a 0-day Office vulnerability that was being exploited in the wild, what's a "BricketBot"?, why you need a secure DNS registrar, This Week in IoT Tantrums, a head shaker from our "You really can't make this stuff up" department, the present danger of fake VPN services, an older edition of Windows reaches end-of-patch-life, some "closing the loop" feedback from our listeners, a bit of miscellany, and a comprehensive survey of privacy encroaching technologies and what can be done to limit their grasp.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.Bandwidth for Security Now is provided by CacheFly.

This week Steve and Leo discuss another iOS Update update, more bad news and some good news on the IoT front, the readout on Tavis Ormandy's shower revelation, more worrisome anti-encryption saber rattling from the EU, a look at a recent Edward Snowden tweet, Samsung's S8 mistake, a questionable approach to online privacy, celebrating the 40th anniversary of Alice and Bob, some quickie feedback loops from our listeners, and an update on Steve's projects.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.Bandwidth for Security Now is provided by CacheFly.

This week Steve and Jason discuss... Google's Tavis Ormandy takes a shower, iOS gets a massive feature and security update, a new target for 'Bot money harvesting appears, Microsoft suffers a rather significant user-privacy fail, the UK increases its communications decryption rhetoric, a worrisome vote in the US senate, NEST fails to respond to a researcher's report, this week in IoT nonsense, a fun quote of the week, a bit of miscellany, some quickie questions from our listeners, and a close look at the developing drama surrounding Google's enforcement of the Certificate Authority Baseline rules with Symantec.We invite you to read our show notes. Hosts: Steve Gibson and Jason Howell 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.Bandwidth for Security Now is provided by CacheFly.

This week Steve and Leo discuss developments in the new windows on old hardware front, Cisco finds a surprise in the Vault7 docs, Ubiquity was caught with the PHPs down, CheckPoint discovered problems in WhatsApp and Telegram, some interesting details about the long-running Yahoo breaches, the death of the "eBay Football", the latest amazing IoT insanity, the incredible results of the CanSecWest Pwn2Own competition, a classic "you're doing it wrong" example, Tavis pokes LastPass again, some miscellany and an interesting proposal about controlling web advertising abuse.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.Bandwidth for Security Now is provided by CacheFly.

This week Steve and Leo discuss March's long-awaited patch Tuesday, the release deployment of Google Invisible reCaptcha, getting more than you bargained for with a new Android smartphone, the new "Find my iPhone" phishing campaign, the failure of Wi-Fi anti-tracking, a nasty and significant new hard-to-fix web server 0-day vulnerability, what if your ISP decides to unilaterally block a service you depend upon? Shining some much-needed light onto a poorly conceived end-to-end messaging application, two quick takes, a bit of errata and miscellany... and a look into what Wikileaks revealed about the CIA's data collection capabilities and practices.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.Bandwidth for Security Now is provided by CacheFly.

Countdown to March's patch Tuesday; what was behind Amazon's S3 outage? Why don't I have a cellular connectivity backup? Some additional Cloudflare perspective, Amazon to fight another day over their Voice Assistant's privacy, an examination of the top 9 Android password managers uncovers problems, another lifeless malware campaign found in the wild, security improvements in Chrome and Firefox, a proof of concept for BIOS ransomware, a how-to walk-through for return-oriented programming, a nifty new site scanning service, Matthew Green compares desktop and mobile security, a bunch of feedback quickies, an incredibly wonderful waste of time accomplishment, the future threat of deliberately fooling AI, and the dark side of automated domain validation certificate issuance.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.Bandwidth for Security Now is provided by CacheFly.

This week, Leo and Steve discuss the "CloudBleed" adventure, another project zero 90-day timer expires for Microsoft, this week's IoT head-shaker, a New York airport exposes critical server data for a year, another danger created by inline third party TLS-intercepting "middleboxes", more judicial thrashing over fingerprint warrants, Amazon says no to Echo data warrant, a fun drone-enabled proof on concept is widely misunderstood, another example of A/V attack surface expansion, some additional Crypto education pointers and miscellany... and what does Google's deliberate creation of two SHA-1-colliding files actually mean?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.Bandwidth for Security Now is provided by CacheFly.

The story behind Microsoft's Patch Tuesday security update disaster. CyberX discovered a new large-scale cyber-reconnaissance operation targeting Ukraine targets: using vulnerabilities in Dropbox data traffic, DDL malware injection. Find out how easy it is to hack and steal an internet connected car. Chrome 56 update that hides connection certificate info. The future of Firefox add-ons. The lock screen of Win 10 leaking Clipboard contents. Project Zero's Windows flaw and NVIDIA Driver. pfSense and Ubiquity follow-ups. The MMU side-channel attack: it has nothing to do with chip flaws. ASLR will need your full attention.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.Bandwidth for Security Now is provided by CacheFly.

Patch Tuesday DELAYED (and we may know why!), our favorite ad-blocker embraces the last major browser, a university gets attacked by its own vending machines, PHP leaps into the future, a slick high-end Linux hack, the rise of fileless malware, some good advice for tax time, it's not only Android's pattern lock that's vulnerable to visual eavesdropping, what happens with you store a huge pile of Samsung Note 7's in one place?, some fun miscellany, a MUST NOT MISS science fiction TV series, a look at the growing worrisome security implications of uncontrolled TLS interception.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.Bandwidth for Security Now is provided by CacheFly.

Speak of the devil... printers around the world get hacked! Vizio's TVs really were watching their watchers, Windows has a new 0-day problem, Android's easy-to-hack pattern lock, an arsonist's pacemaker rats him out, a survey finds that many iOS apps are not checking TLS certificates, the courts create continuing confusion over eMail search warrants, a blast from the past: SQL Slammer appears to return, Cellebrite's stolen cell phone cracking data begins to surface, some worrisome events in the Encrypted Web Extensions debate, Non-Windows 10 users are not alone, a couple of questions answered, my report of a terrific Sci-Fi series, a bit of miscellany... and a fun story about one-armed bandits being hacked by two armed bandits.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.Bandwidth for Security Now is provided by CacheFly.

The best "I'm not a Robot" video ever, Cisco's WebEx problem is far more pervasive than first believed, more bad news (and maybe some good news) for Netgear, Gmail adds .js to the no-no list, a hotel finally decides to abandon electronic room keying, more arguments against the use of modern AV, another clever exploitable CSS browser hack, some (hopefully final) password complexity follow-ups, a bit of errata and miscellany, a SQRL status update, a "Luke... trust the SpinRite" story, and a very nice analysis of a little-suspected threat hiding among us.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.Bandwidth for Security Now is provided by CacheFly.

Symantec issues additional invalid certificates while on probation, Tavis Ormandy finds a very troubling problem in Cisco's Web conferencing extension for Chrome, yesterday's important update to iOS, renewed concerns about LastPass metadata leakage, the SEC looks askance at what's left of Yahoo, a troubling browser form auto-fill information leakage, Tor further hides it's hidden services, China orbits a source of entangled photons? Heartbleed three years later, a new take on compelling fingerprints, approaching the biggest Pwn2Own ever, some miscellany... and some tricks for computing password digit and bit complexity equivalence.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.Bandwidth for Security Now is provided by CacheFly.