SN 596: Password Complexity




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Summary: <p>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.</p><p>We invite you to read our <a href="https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-596-Notes.pdf">show notes</a>.</p> <p><strong>Hosts:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/steve-gibson">Steve Gibson</a> and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a></p> <p>Download or subscribe to this show at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/security-now">https://twit.tv/shows/security-now</a>.</p><p>You can submit a question to Security Now! at the <a href="http://grc.com/feedback.htm" target="_blank">GRC Feedback Page</a>.</p><p>For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: <a href="http://grc.com/securitynow.htm" target="_blank">grc.com</a>, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written <a href="http://spinrite.info/" target="_blank">Spinrite 6</a>.</p><p>Bandwidth for Security Now is provided by <a href="https://www.cachefly.com/" target="_blank">CacheFly</a>.</p>