SN 650: CryptoCurrency Antics




Security Now (Audio) show

Summary: <p>This week we discuss today's preempted 2nd Tuesday of the month, slow progress on the Intel Spectre firmware update front, a worse-than-originally-thought Cisco firewall appliance vulnerability, the unsuspected threat of hovering hacking drones, hacking at the Winter Olympics, Kaspersky's continuing unhappiness, the historic leak of Apple's iOS boot source code, a critical WiFi update for some Lenovo laptop users, a glitch at Wordpress, a butt of miscellany -- including a passwords rap -- some closing-the-loop feedback from our listeners... and then a look at a handful of CryptoCurrency Antics.</p> <p>We invite you to read our <a href="https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-650-Notes.pdf" target="_blank">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="https://www.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="https://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm" target="_blank">grc.com</a>, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written <a href="https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm" 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> <p><strong>Sponsors:</strong></p><ul> <li><a href="http://canary.tools/twit">canary.tools/twit - offer code: TWIT</a></li> <li><a href="http://redhat.com/heroes">redhat.com/heroes</a></li> <li><a href="http://ZipRecruiter.com/securitynow">ZipRecruiter.com/securitynow</a></li> </ul>