This week, Leo and I discuss Russia's hacking involvement in the US Election; that, incredibly, it gets even worse for Yahoo!; misguided anti-porn legislation in South Carolina; troubling legislation from Australia; legal confusion from the Florida appellate court; some good news from the U.S. Supreme Court; Linux security stumbling; why Mac OS X got an important fix last week; the Steganography malvertising attack that targets home routers; news of a forthcoming inter-vehicle communications mandate; professional cameras being called upon to provide built-in encryption; LetsEncrypt gets a worrisome extension; additional news, errata, miscellany... and how exactly DOES that "I really really promise I'm not a robot (really!)" non-CAPTCHA checkbox CAPTCHA work?
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SN590: Listener Feedback #245
This week, Leo and I discuss ticket-buying bots getting their hand slapped (do they have hands?), a truly nasty new addition to encrypting ransomware operation, a really dumb old problem returns to many recent Netgear routers, Yahoo!'s being too pleased with their bug bounty program, Steganometric advertising malware that went undetected for two years, uBlock Origin readies for a big new platform, what exactly is the BitDefender "BOX"? (We wish we knew!), VeraCrypt was audited... next up is OpenVPN! (Yay!), the definitive answer to the question of where Spock's thumb should be, Steve's new relaxing and endless puzzler, and... questions from our listeners!
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SN589: Listener Feedback #244
Leo and I discuss Android meeting Gooligan, Windows Upgrades bypass Bitlocker, nearly one million UK routers taken down by a Mirai variant, the popular AirDroid app is "Doing it wrong", researchers invent a clever credit card disclosure hack, Cloudflare reports a new emerging botnet threat, deliberate backdoors discovered in 80 different models of Sony IP cameras, we get some closure on our SanFran MUNI hacker, a fun hack with Amazon's Echo and Google's Home, How to kill a USB port in seconds, a caution about keyless entry (and exit), too-easy-to-spoof fingerprint readers, an extremely troubling report from the UK, and finally some good news: the open-source covert USB hack defeating "BeamGun"!... plus a bunch of fun miscellany, some great Sci-Fi reader/listener book news, and... however many questions we're able to get to by the end of two hours!
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SN588: Listener Feedback #243
Leo and I discuss share a wonderful quote about random numbers, our standard interesting mix of security do's and dont's, new exploits (WordPress dodged a big bullet!), planned changes, tips & tricks, things to patch, a new puzzle/game discovery, some other fun miscellany... and ten comments, thoughts and questions from our terrific listeners!
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SN587: Mobile & IoT Nightmares
Leo and I discuss this week's major dynamic duo stories: Samy Kamkar is back with a weaponized $5 Raspberry Pi, and el cheapo Android phones bring new meaning to "phoning it in." Another big unrelated Android problem; watching a webcam getting taken over; Bruce Schneier speaks to Congress about the Internet; another iPhone lock screen bypass and another iPhone lockup link; ransomware author asks a security researcher for help fixing their broken crypto; Britain finally passed that very extreme surveillance law; some more fun miscellany, and more.
Steve Gibson, the man who coined the term spyware and created the first anti-spyware program,
creator of Spinrite and ShieldsUP, discusses the hot topics in security today with Leo Laporte.
Winner of the 2009 and 2007 people's choice award for best Technology/Science podcast.
Records live at https://twit.tv/live every Tuesday.
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