SN 713: Post-Coinhive Cryptojacking




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Summary: <p>This Week's Stories</p><ul> <li>The continuing and changing world of cryptojacking after Coinhive closed their doors last month.</li> <li>Google's announcement of self-expiring data retention</li> <li>The mess arising from Mozilla's intermediate certificate expiration</li> <li>Another wrinkle in the exploit marketplace</li> <li>Mozilla's announcement about deliberate code obfuscation</li> <li>A hacker who hacked at least 29 other botnet hackers</li> <li>A warning about a very popular D-Link netcam</li> <li>Who's paying and who's receiving bug bounties by country</li> <li>Another User-Agent gotcha with Google Docs</li> <li>A problem with Google Earth on the new Chromium-Edge browser</li> <li>A bit more about Edge's future just dropped at the start of Microsoft's Build 2019 conference. </li> </ul><p>We invite you to read our show notes at <a href="https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-713-Notes.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-713-Notes.pdf</a></p> <p><strong>Hosts:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</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://ZipRecruiter.com/securitynow">ZipRecruiter.com/securitynow</a></li> <li><a href="http://LastPass.com/twit">LastPass.com/twit</a></li> <li><a href="https://securitynow.cachefly.com">securitynow.cachefly.com</a></li> </ul>