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This week we observe the untimely death of Microsoft's co-founder Paul Allen, revisit the controversial Bloomberg China supply chain hacking report, catch up on Microsoft's October patching fiasco, follow-up on Facebook's privacy breach, look at the end of TLS v1.0 and 1.1, explore Google's addition of control flow integrity to Android 9, look at a GAO report about the state of US DOD weapons cybersecurity, consider the EOL of PHP 5.x chain, take a quick look at an A/V comparison test, entertain a few bits of feedback from our listeners, and then consider the implications of grey-hat vigilante hacking of others' routers.

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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• An October Surprise of a different sort - Windows 10 update deletes users' files
• A security researcher has massively weaponzied the existing MicroTik vulnerability and released it as a proof-of-concept
• A clever voicemail WhatsApp OTP bypass
• What happened with that recent Google+ breach?
• Google tightens up its Chrome extensions security policies
• WiFi radio protocol designations finally switch to simple version numbering
• Intel unwraps its 9th-generation processors
• Head-spinning PDF updates from Adobe and Foxit (this isn't a competition, guys!)
• Bloomberg's earth-shaking controversial report on Chinese hardware hacking

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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This week we discuss yet another treat from Cloudflare, the growing legislative battle over Net Neutrality, the rise of Python malware, Cisco's update report on the VPNFilter malware, still more Chrome controversy and some placating, the rapid exploitation of 0-day vulnerabilities, the first UEFI rootkit found in the wild, another new Botnet discovery, the danger of the RDP protocol, a nasty website browser trick and how to thwart it, a quick update on recent non-fiction and science fiction, and then a look into the recent massive 50 million account Facebook security breach.

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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This week we look at additional changes coming from Google's Chromium team, another powerful instance of newer cross-platform malware, the publication of a 0-day exploit after Microsoft missed its deadline, the return of Sabri Haddouche with browser crash attacks, the reasoning behind Matthew Green's decision to abandon Chrome after a change in release 69... and an "UnGoogled" Chromium alternative that Matthew might approve of, Western Digital's pathetic response to a very serious vulnerability, a cool device exploit collection website, a question about the future of the Internet, a sobering example of the aftermarket in unwiped hard drives, the Mirai Botnet creators are now working with and helping the FBI, another fine levied against Equifax, and a look at Cloudflare's quick move to encrypt a remaining piece of web metadata.

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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This week we prepare for the first ever Presidential Alert unblockable nationwide text message, we examine Chrome's temporary "www" removal reversal, checkout Comodo's somewhat unsavory marketing, discuss a forthcoming solution to BGP hijacking, examine California's forthcoming IoT legislation, deal with the return of Cold Boot attacks, choose not to click on a link that promptly crashes any Safari OS, congratulate Twitter on adding some auditing, check in on the Mirai Botnet's steady evolution, look at the past year's explosion in DDoS number of size, note another new annoyance brought to us by Windows 10... Then we take a look at the state of the quietly evolving web browser extension ecosystem.

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Jason Howell

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This week we discuss Windows 7's additional three years of support life, MicroTik routers back in the news (and not in a good way), Google Chrome 69's new features, the hack of MEGA's cloud storage extension for Chrome, Week 3 of the Windows Task Scheduler 0-day, a new consequence of using '1234' as your password, Tesla makes their white hat hacking policies clear... just in time for a big new hack!, our PCs as the new malware battlefield, a dangerous OpenVPN feature is spotted, and Trend Micro, caught spying, gets kicked out of the MacOS store.

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.

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This week we cover the expected exploitation of the most recent Apache STRUTS vulnerability, a temporary interim patch for the Windows 0-day privilege elevation, an information disclosure vulnerability in all Android devices, Instagram's moves to tighten things up, another OpenSSH information disclosure problem, an unexpected outcome of the GDPR legislation and sky high fines, the return of the Misfortune Cookie, many thousands of Magneto commerce sites are being exploited, a fundamental design flaw in the TPM v2.0 spec, trouble with Mitre's CVE service, Mozilla's welcome plans to further control tracking, a gratuitous round of Win10 patches from Microsoft.... and then a working sonar system which tracks smartphone finger movements!

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Jason Howell

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This week we catch-up with another busy week. We look at Firefox's changing certificate policies, the danger of grabbing a second-hand domain, the Fortnite mess on Android, another patch-it-now Apache Struts RCE, a frightening jump in Mirai Botnet capability, an unpatched Windows 0-day privilege elevation, malware with a tricky new C&C channel, A/V companies are predictably unhappy with Chrome, Tavis found more serious problems in GhostScript, a breakthrough in contactless RSA key extraction, a worrisome flaw that has always been present in OpenSSH, and problems with never-dying Hayes AT commands in Android devices.

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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As we head into our 14th year of Security Now​, this week we look at some of the research released during last week's USENIX Security symposium, we also take a peek at last week's Patch Tuesday details, Skype's newly released implementation of Open Whisper Systems' Signal privacy protocol, Google's Chrome browser's increasing pushback against being injected into, news following last week's observation about Google's user tracking, Microsoft's announcement of more spoofed domain takedowns, another page table sharing vulnerability, believe it or not... "Malicious Regular Expressions", some numbers on how much money CoinHive is raking in, flaws in browser and their add-ons that allow tracking-block bypasses, two closing-the-loop bits of feedback, and then a look at the details of the latest Intel Speculation disaster known as "The Foreshadow Flaw".

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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This week we cover lots of discoveries revealed during last week's Black Hat 2018 and DEF CON 26 Las Vegas security conferences. Among them, 47 vulnerabilities across 25 Android smartphones, Android "Disk-In-The-Middle" attacks, Google tracking when asked not to, more Brazilian DLink router hijack hijinks, a backdoor found in VIA C3 processors, a trusted-client attack on WhatsApp, a macOS 0-day, a tasty new feature for Win10 Enterprise, a new Signal-based secure eMail service, Facebook's FIZZ TLS v1.3 library, another Let's Encrypt milestone, and then "FaxSploit" the most significant nightmare in recent history (FAR worse, I think, than any of the theoretical Spectre & Meltdown attacks).

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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