SN 685: Good Samaritans?




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Summary: <p>This week we observe the untimely death of Microsoft's co-founder Paul Allen, revisit the controversial Bloomberg China supply chain hacking report, catch up on Microsoft's October patching fiasco, follow-up on Facebook's privacy breach, look at the end of TLS v1.0 and 1.1, explore Google's addition of control flow integrity to Android 9, look at a GAO report about the state of US DOD weapons cybersecurity, consider the EOL of PHP 5.x chain, take a quick look at an A/V comparison test, entertain a few bits of feedback from our listeners, and then consider the implications of grey-hat vigilante hacking of others' routers.</p> <p>We invite you to read our <a href="https://www.grc.com/SN/SN-685-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><strong>Sponsors:</strong></p><ul> <li><a href="http://expressvpn.com/securitynow">expressvpn.com/securitynow</a></li> <li><a href="http://ZipRecruiter.com/securitynow">ZipRecruiter.com/securitynow</a></li> <li><a href="http://Wasabi.com">Wasabi.com offer code SECURITYNOW</a></li> </ul>