Security Now (Video)

Leo and I discuss the answer to last week's security & privacy puzzler, Let's Encrypt Squarespace, the new open source "LessPass" app, LastPass goes mobile-free, many problems with OAuth, popular Internet services' privacy concerns, news from the IP spoofing front, Microsoft clarifies Win10 update settings and winds down EMET, a hacker finds a serious flaw in Gmail, MySQL patches need to be installed now, a tweet from Paul Thurrott, a bit of errata and... and the Windows AtomBomb attack.

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Leo and Steve discuss an oh-so-subtle side-channel attack on Intel processors, the quest for verifiable hacker-proof code (which oh-so-subtle side-channel attacks on processors can exploit anyway!), another compiler optimization security gotcha, the challenge of adding new web features without opening routes of exploitation, some good news about the DMCA, Matthew Green and the DMCA, the relentless MPAA and RIAA still pushing the limits and threatening the Internet, the secure ProtonMail service feels the frightening power of skewed search results, regaining control over Windows 10 upgrade insistence, a new 0-day vulnerability Google revealed before Microsoft has patched it, a bit of errata, miscellany and as many listener feedback questions and comments as we have time for.

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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.

Bandwidth for Security Now is provided by CacheFly.

Leo and Steve discuss last week's major attack on DNS, answering the question of whether the Internet is still working?, we look at Linux's worrisome "Dirty COW" bug rediscovered in the kernel after nine years, we address the worrisome average lifetime of Linux bugs, share a bit of errata and miscellany, and offer an in-depth analysis of DRAMMER, the new, largely unpatachable, Android mobile device Rowhammer 30-second exploit.

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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.

Bandwidth for Security Now is provided by CacheFly.

Leo and Steve discuss some serious concerns raised over compelled biometric authentication, a detailed dive into the recently completed audit of VeraCrypt (the successor to TrueCrypt), more on web browsers fatiguing system main SSD storage, a bunch of interesting miscellany (including... are we living in a simulated reality?), and eleven questions and observations from our terrific listeners.

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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.

Bandwidth for Security Now is provided by CacheFly.

Leo and Steve discuss today's Windows update changes for 7 and 8.1, an exploit purchaser offers a $1.5 million bounty for iOS hacks, WhisperSystems encounter first bug, an IEEE study reveals pervasive "Security Fatigue" among users, Firefox and Chrome news, following the WoSign Woes, Samsung Note 7 news, some errata, a bunch of miscellany... and a look into new Yahoo troubles and concerns over the possibility of hidden trapdoors in widely deployed prime numbers.

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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.

Bandwidth for Security Now is provided by CacheFly.

An "update" on Microsoft's GWX remover, an encouraging direction for the Windows 10 Edge browser, HP's "security update" blocks non-HP ink cartridges, a clarification about how to upgrade a site's password hashing, a really terrific DNS hack, another update on Windows update, our web browsers may be fatiguing our SSD's, and Steve answers your questions!

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

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.

Bandwidth for Security Now is provided by CacheFly.

Brian Krebs, Akamai and Google's Project Shield, Yahoo's record-breaking, massive 500 million user data breach, Apple's acknowledged iOS 10 backup PBKDF flaw, well known teen hacker jailbreaks his new iPhone 7 in 24 hours, Microsoft formally allows removal of "Get Windows 10", a new OpenSSL SERVER DoS flaw, more WoSign/StartCom woes (Mozilla prepares to pull the plug), Bittorrent Sync renamed and more deeply documented, and more!

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

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.

Bandwidth for Security Now is provided by CacheFly.

Concerns over a significant expansion in effectively warrantless intrusion into end-user computers, the forthcoming change in Internet governance, NTIA's contract with ICANN to handle IANA is expiring in ten days! Google's next move in using Chrome to push for improved security, the interresting details emerging from a successful NAND memory cloning attack on the iPhone 5c and Steve shares the details and findings of a recent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) problem on GRC and his recommendation for the best website security scanner!

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

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.

Bandwidth for Security Now is provided by CacheFly.

Flip Feng Shui follow-up, Apple's announcements, Android's rough week, a bank's data center shuts down due to noise, Bluetooth device privacy leakages, and Steve answers your questions!

We invite you to read our show notes.

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.

Bandwidth for Security Now is provided by CacheFly.

The continuing woes of WoSign, autonomous micro-recon drones turn out to be real, a new crypto attack on short block ciphers prompts immediate changes oin OpenVPN and OpenSSL, introducing a new Security Now! Abbreviation: "YAWTTY": Yet Another Way To Track You, a discouraging social engineering experiment, another clever USB attack and a look at the weaponizing of RowHammer with "Flip Feng Shui" - the most incredibly righteous and sublime hack... ever!

We invite you to read our show notes.

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.

Bandwidth for Security Now is provided by CacheFly.