SN 699: Browser Extension Security




Security Now (Audio) show

Summary: <ul> <li>The expressive power of the social media friends we keep</li> <li>The persistent DNS hijacking campaign which has the US Government quite concerned</li> <li>Last week's iOS and macOS updates (and doubtless another one very soon!)</li> <li>A valiant effort to take down malware distribution domains</li> <li>Chrome catching up to IE and Firefox with drive-by file downloads</li> <li>Two particularly worrisome vulnerabilities in two Cisco router models publicly disclosed last Friday</li> <li>The state of the industry and the consequences of extensions to our web browsers.</li> </ul><p>We invite you to read our <a href="https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-699-Notes.pdf">show notes.</a></p> <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://expressvpn.com/securitynow">expressvpn.com/securitynow</a></li> <li><a href="http://Atlassian.com">Atlassian.com </a></li> <li><a href="http://thehelm.com/SECURITYNOW">thehelm.com/SECURITYNOW</a></li> </ul>