• The NSA announces the forthcoming release of an internal powerful reverse-engineering tool for examining and understanding other people's code.
• Emergency out-of-cycle patches from both Adobe and Microsoft.
• PewDiePie hacker strikes again.
• Prolific 0-day dropper SandboxEscaper ruffles some feathers.
• A new effort by the US government to educate industry about the risks of Cyber attacks.
• Welcome news on the ransomware front.
• VERY welcome news of a new Windows 10 feature.
• A note about a just-published side-channel attack on OS page caches.

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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