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Security Now (Audio) episodes

June 08, 2021SN 822: Extrinsic Password Managers - Great CyberSecurity Awakening of 2021, NAT vs IPv6, Tavis Ormandy
Picture of the week.
The Great CyberSecurity Awakening of 2021.
Firefox will soon auto-update on Windows even when it's not running.
Edge takes its own approach to HTTPS switching.
Three new ransomware victims.
We believe we know how Colonial Pipeline was breached.
The FBI strikes back... but how, exactly?
WordPress force installs Jetpack security update on 5 million sites.
WordPress Fancy Product Designer.
GitHub Updates its formal posting policy.
NAT vs IPv6.
Project Hail Mary update.
Extrinsic Password Managers.
We invite you to check out our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-822-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
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2 hr 14 min
June 01, 2021SN 821: Epsilon Red - Chrome 91, Emsisoft's Ransomware Decryption Tool, Revisiting Amazon Sidewalk
Photo of the Week.
Chrome advances to 91.
Emsisoft has created their own ransomware decryption tool.
Stepping off the Sidewalk.
Just another phishing attack.
The Great Encryption Struggle.
Hail Mary.
Epsilon Red.
We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-821-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.
Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit
You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page.
For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
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2 hr 2 min
May 25, 2021SN 820: The Dark Escrow - Firefox Fission, Doom CAPTCHA, Conti and CNA Financial Ransomware
Picture of the Week.
Firefox finally achieves sustained "Fission".
Conti ransomware.
CNA Financial pays up big.
When they say IoT do they mean us?
"Mean Time to Inventory"
The "Doom" CAPTCHA.
The "Helios" screensaver.
Closing the Loop.
The Dark Escrow.
We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-820-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.
Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit
You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page.
For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
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1 hr 46 min
May 18, 2021SN 819: The WiFi Frag Attacks - DarkSide Follow-Up, DarkTracer, Patch Tuesday, The Frontiers Saga
Picture of the week.
DarkSide Follow-Up.
Follow The Money.
Toshiba Attacked by DarkSide.
Ransomware topics off-limits here.
"DarkTracer: DarkWeb Criminal Intelligence"
Please Leak our Stolen Data!
Patch Tuesday Review.
A review of the first book of "The Frontiers Saga"
60 Minutes/UAP: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.
Closing the Loop.
The WiFi Frag Attacks.
We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-819-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.
Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit
You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page.
For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
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2 hr
May 11, 2021SN 818: News From the Darkside - Exim Email Server, Tor's Exit Nodes, TsuNAME, Project Hail Mary
Picture of the week.
TsuNAME - "DNS Configuration Flaw Lets Attackers Take Down DNS Servers"
Huh Google?
Tor's Exit Nodes.
21 Nails in Exim's coffin.
Project Hail Mary: A Novel.
Closing the loop.
SpinRite update.
News from the Darkside.
We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-818-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.
Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit
You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page.
For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
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1 hr 55 min
May 04, 2021SN 817: The Ransomware Task Force - Scripps Health, REvil Hacks Quanta Computer, Emotet Botnet, QNAP
Picture of the Week.
REvil hacks Apple supplier Quanta Computer.
World-famous Scripps Health taken down.
The Big Emotet Botnet Takedown.
Emotet's 4,324,770 eMail addresses.
Have I Been Pwned domain-wide notifications.
QNAP.
Gravity NNTP Newsreader updated to v3.0.11.0
Just a bit more about Dan Kaminsky.
Closing the Loop.
The Ransomware Task Force.
We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-817-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.
Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit
You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page.
For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
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2 hr 20 min
April 27, 2021SN 816: The Mystery of AS8003 - Remembering Dan Kaminsky, Project Zero, Unethical Security Research
Remembering Dan Kaminsky.
Week before last was Patch Tuesday.
Google's Project Zero responds to today's patch latency reality.
Baking security into IoT
UNethical security research.
CloudFlare refuses to knuckle under to Patent Trolls.
Closing The Loop.
The Mystery of AS8003.
We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-816-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.
Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit
You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page.
For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
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2 hr 11 min
April 20, 2021SN 815: Homogeneity Attacks - Is FLoC All That Bad?, Humble Bundle For Programmers, Chrome 90
Club TWiT details.
Picture of the Week.
The Vivaldi Project's take on FLoC.
Chrome continues to be THE high-value target.
We're at Chrome v90.
Exchange Server Web Shells removed, with DOJ Permission.
WordPress joins the "FLoC No!" chorus.
It's Humble Bundle Book Time.
Closing the Loop.
A quick SpinRite progress report.
Homogeneity Attacks.
We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-815-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.
Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit
You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page.
For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
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2 hr 4 min
April 13, 2021SN 814: PwnIt And OwnIt - Why Port 10080 is Blocked, FLoC Rollout, PHP GIT Hack Revisited, CISCO Router Problems
Picture of the week.
The Slips keep Streaming.
Are You FLoC'ed?
The PHP GIT Hack, revisited.
CISCO abandons old routers having problems.
Failure to Patch.
PwnIt And OwnIt.
We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-814-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.
You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page.
For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
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2 hr 6 min
April 06, 2021SN 813: A Spy in Our Pocket - Ubiquity Coverup, Facebook Data Dump, Malicious Call of Duty Cheats
Ubiquity coverup, Facebook data dump, malicious Call of Duty cheats.
The Ubiquiti Coverup.
Facebook's 533,313,128 Million User Whoopsie!
Don't mess with our water!
Android moves to limit inter-app visibility.
Beware malicious "Call of Duty: Warzone" cheats.
QNAP — Just Say No!
Listener Feedback.
A Spy in Our Pocket.
We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-813-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Jason Howell
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.
You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page.
For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
Sponsors:
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itpro.tv/securitynow promo code SN30
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2 hr 4 min

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