SN 709: URL "Ping" Tracking




Security Now (Audio) show

Summary: <p>This Week's Stories</p><ul> <li>Yet another capitulation in the (virtually lost) battle against tracking our behavior on the Internet with URL "ping" tracking.</li> <li>UK government's plan to legislate, police and enforce online social media content</li> <li>Microsoft's Chromium-based Edge browser's security</li> <li>Improvements to Windows 10's update management</li> <li>News from the "spoofing biometrics" department</li> <li>The worrisome state of Android mobile financial apps</li> <li>NSA's GHIDRA software reverse engineering tool suite</li> <li>Perhaps the dumbest thing Facebook has done yet (and by policy, not by mistake)</li> <li>An important change in Win10 1809 external storage caching policy</li> </ul> <p><strong>Hosts:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/jason-howell">Jason Howell</a> and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/steve-gibson">Steve Gibson</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://Atlassian.com/IT">Atlassian.com/IT</a></li> <li><a href="http://ZipRecruiter.com/securitynow">ZipRecruiter.com/securitynow</a></li> </ul>