Security Now (Video)

• Bullet points from last Tuesday's monthly Windows patches as well
• Notes from the end of Windows 7
• Laporte County Under Ransomware Attack
• The mixed blessing of fining companies for self-reporting
• A survey of enterprise malware headaches
• Some Mozilla/ Firefox news
• Another (kinda obvious) way of exfiltrating information from a PC
• DNS Encryption

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-723-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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This Week's Stories

• Mozilla's privacy-enhancing DNS over HTTPS support
• Facial recognition and automobile license plate scanners
• The future of satellite-based Internet services
• How a Ruby code repository was hacked
• The UK GCHQ's proposal for adding "ghost" participants into private conversations

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-722-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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• Ransomware in Florida and elsewhere
• The "Going Dark" anti-encryption debate
• A BlueKeep Proof of Concept demo produced by the guys at SophosLabs
• Massive publicly-exposed databases
• Chinese IoT manufacturer logs a million+ customer devices into a 2+ billion record publicly-exposed database
• The dilemma we have with the utter lack of oversight and control over our own IoT devices

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-721-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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• Update on the Linux TCP SACK Kernel panic
• Hackers exploit a Firefox flaw and attack Coinbase
• Google corrects a flaw with Nestcam
• An elegant solution to OpenSSH key theft via Rowhammer attacks
• Update on the BlueKeep RDP vulnerability
• Verizon's negligence caused a major Cloudflare and Amazon customer outage
• NASA was infected by an APT for more than a year
• Should you pay ransomware?
• Microsoft's Chromium-based Edge browser update
• The state of the commercial Bug Bounty Business

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-720-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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• A new DRAM problem called "RAMBleed"
• A bad Linux TCP SACK server kernel crashing flaw
• Last week's patch Tuesday
• A Bluetooth surprise
• Another useless warning about the BlueKeep vulnerability
• Microsoft misses a 90-day Tavis Ormandy deadline
• Good news about GandCrab wrap up
• Yubico's entropy mistake
• Post-announce SQRL news
• Our favorite iOS security app
• Attacks on Exim mail servers and other pending disasters

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-719-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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• SandboxEscaper drops another 0-day
• The still-not-yet-widely-exploited BlueKeep vulnerability
• GoldBrute Botnet pounding on RDP servers (but not yet using BlueKeep)
• The FBI issued an interesting advisory about not trusting secure sites just because they're secure
• VLC receives 33 security bug fixes
• Microsoft's Edge browser takes another step forward
• Mozilla reorganizes
• MUST HAVE utility of the week: DNS Query Sniffer
• The first formal full release of SQRL
• Anyone running an Exim mail server needs to update immediately!

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-718-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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• Checking in on the BlueKeep RDP vulnerability
• The planned shutdown of one of the most "successful" affiliate-based ransomware systems
• An update on the anti-Robocalling problem
• Russian and Chinese militaries plan to quit using Windows
• Apple's announcement yesterday of their forthcoming "Sign in with Apple" service
• The Nansh0u campaign, apparently sourced from China, has successfully compromised many tens of thousands of servers exposed to the Internet.

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-717-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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• The Internet is Doomed: BlueKeep Attacks Windows Remote Desktop Protocol
• Google Stores Unhashed G Suite Passwords
• Sandbox Escaper Drops FIVE New Zero-Day Exploits
• Microsoft's Just-released Win10 Feature Update 1903
• Security Enhancements in Firefox's Release 67

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-716-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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This Week's Stories

• The next round of Intel processor information leakage problems: Microarchitectural Data Sampling vulnerabilities
• Last Tuesday's patches from Microsoft, Adobe and Apple includes one for Windows XP
• Security problem for Cisco that ever has stock analysts taking notice
• Ongoing troubles with the cryptocurrency market
• Trouble with Google's Titan Bluetooth dongle
• Another monthly problem with Windows 10 updates

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-715-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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This Week's Stories

• Update WhatsApp NOW!
• Security News from Google I/O 2019 conference
• A new exploitable flaw in all Linux kernels earlier than v5.0.8
• A new set of flaws affecting all Intel processors known as "ZombieLoad"
• Security enhancements in Android Q.

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-714-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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