Security Now - 16k MP3

CrowdStrike's president appears in person to accept the "Most Epic Fail" award. A secret backdoor discovered in Chinese-made RFID access key cards. Counterfeit and poorly functioning Cisco brand networking gear in use by major institutions, government and military. A startling SSD performance improvement thanks to SpinRite. When is "Bing" actually "Edge" ... and other errata. Another useful National Public Data breach check service. And what are "Cascading Bloom Filters" and why do they offer the promise of 100% browser local and instantaneous certificate revocation detection?

As we embark on our 20th year of this weekly Internet security and privacy oriented technical news podcast, we're going to look at some more interesting certificate revocation news and we have an experiment for our listeners. What six 0-days were patched during Microsoft's Patch Tuesday last week? 53 episodes of the 1980's "Famous Computer Cafe" radio show were recently discovered and are now online -- hear Bill Gates before his voice changed. We have release #3 of IsBootSecure and a GRC email update and some interesting listener feedback. Then, to no one's surprise, we're going to take a deep dive into the background, meaning and impact of the largest personal data breach in history; how to look up your own breached records online, what to do and what this means for the future.

A million domains are vulnerable to the "Sitting Duck" attack. What is it? Is it new? Why does it happen? And who needs to worry about it? A CVSS 9.8 (serious) remote code execution vulnerability has been discovered in Windows' RDL (Remote Desktop Licensing) service. Patch it before the bad guys use it! All of AMD's chips have a critical (but patchable) microcode bug that allows boot-time security to be compromised. Now what? Microsoft apparently decides NOT to fix a simple Windows bug that allows anyone to easily crash Windows with a Blue Screen of Death anytime they wish. You sure don't want that in your Windows startup folder! GRC's IsBootSecure freeware is updated and very nearly finished. And believe it or not, the entire certificate revocation system that the industry has just spent the past ten years getting working is about to be scrapped in favor of what never worked before. Go figure.

What's been learned over the past week about the PKfile Platform Key misuse issue? What is "IsBootSecure?" and why does that sound suspiciously like a new piece of GRC freeware? There's plenty of news on the 3rd-party cookie front. What's going on with Firefox and what position has the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) taken on this important issue? Now that we're a few weeks downstream of the CrowdStrike disaster, the attorneys have come out to play. What are we learning about the legal side of this massive outage? What's been going on with GRC's incoming "SecurityNow" email system? And we finish by looking at DigiCert's recent mass certificate revocation event. Why it happened? What happened? Did it matter? Was it necessary? And how does it compare to Entrust's past behavior?

The obligatory follow-up on the massive CrowdStrike event: How do CrowdStrike's users feel? Are they switching or staying? How does CrowdStrike explain what happened? Does it make sense? How much blame should they receive? An update on how Entrust is attempting to keep its customers from changing certificate authorities. Firefox appears not to be blocking 3rd-party tracking cookies when it claims to be. How hiring remote workers can come back to bite you in the you-know-what. Did Google really want to kill off 3rd-party cookies or are they actually happy? And is there any hope of ending abusive tracking? Auto-updating anything is fraught with danger. Why do we do it and is there no better solution? And what serious mistake did a security firm discover that compromises the security of nearly 850 PC makes and models?