SN 697: Zerodium




Security Now (Audio) show

Summary: <ul> <li>The implications of the recent increase in bounty for the purchase of 0-day vulnerabilities. </li> <li>The intended and unintended consequences of last week's Windows Patch Tuesday.</li> <li>Speaking of unintended consequences, the US Government shutdown has had some, too!</li> <li>A significant privacy failure in WhatsApp. </li> <li>Another Ransomware decryptor (with a twist).</li> <li>Movement on the DNS-over-TLS front.</li> <li>An expectation of the cyberthreat landscape for 2019. </li> <li>A cloudy forecast for The Weather Channel App. </li> <li>A successful 51% attack against the Ethereum Classic cryptocurrency.</li> <li>Another court reversing compelled biometric authentication. </li> <li>An update on the lingering death of Flash... now in hospice care.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Hosts:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/steve-gibson">Steve Gibson</a> and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a></p> <p>Download or subscribe to this show at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/security-now">https://twit.tv/shows/security-now</a>.</p> <p>You can submit a question to Security Now! at the <a href="https://www.grc.com/feedback.htm" target="_blank">GRC Feedback Page</a>.</p> <p>For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: <a href="https://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm" target="_blank">grc.com</a>, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written <a href="https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm" target="_blank">Spinrite 6</a>.</p> <p><strong>Sponsors:</strong></p><ul> <li><a href="http://go.itpro.tv/securitynow">go.itpro.tv/securitynow promo code SN30</a></li> <li><a href="http://Sophos.com">Sophos.com</a></li> <li><a href="http://Atlassian.com">Atlassian.com </a></li> </ul>