Security Now 768: Contact Tracing Apps R.I.P.




Radio Leo (Audio) show

Summary: <p>Contact tracing apps are not going to work.</p><ul> <li>Why contact tracing apps are never going to work</li> <li>Unc0ver: There's a new iOS jailbreak in town, and as jailbreaks go, it looks VERY nice!</li> <li>Firefox 77 picks up a nifty new security trick</li> <li>New features in Chrome 83: cookie management, "Safety Check," blocking third-party cookies by default in Incognito mode, and "Tab Groups"</li> <li>Adobe rushes out four out-of-cycle emergency updates to fix security flaws</li> <li>Zerodium temporarily stops buying iOS remote code execution vulnerabilities</li> <li>The NXNS Attack: A group of cybersecurity researchers in Israeli have responsibly disclosed details about a new way they worked out of using the Internet's domain name resolution system to hugely amplify (by a factor of at least 1620 packets) a DDoS attack to take down targeted websites.</li> <li>BIAS - Bluetooth Impersonation AttackS is nothing less than a complete collapse of Bluetooth security.</li> <li>Is eBay port scanning its user's computers? Kinda.</li> <li>Security Now trivia: Steve Gibson helped develop the Speak &amp; Spell! It did voice synthesis with only a 4K bits (0.5K bytes) processor.</li> </ul><p>We invite you to read our show notes at <a href="https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-768-Notes.pdf">https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-768-Notes.pdf</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://barracuda.com/securitynow">barracuda.com/securitynow</a></li> <li><a href="http://Wasabi.com">Wasabi.com offer code SECURITYNOW</a></li> <li><a href="http://extrahop.com/SECURITYNOW">extrahop.com/SECURITYNOW</a></li> </ul>