Apr 23rd 2019
Security Now 711
DNSpionage
Hosted by
Steve Gibson,
Leo Laporte
DNS Espionage, Facebook Steals Contacts
Records live every Tuesday at 4:30pm Eastern / 1:30pm Pacific / 21:30 UTC.
Top Security Stories this Week:
- Google uses its "sensorvault" to help catch the bad guys.
- Time to update Drupal again.
- Facebook steals users' email contact lists, logs plaintext Instagram passwords
- Russia moves closer to adopting "Internet Master Cutoff Switch" legislation.
- A reminder that "USB Killers" are a real thing.
- Marcus Hutchins' plea deal
- A new(ish) actively exploited Windows 0-day
- A bunch of Microsoft Edge news
- Windows 7 end-of-life notices
- Something from the "I did say this was bound to happen" department
- Detailed threat research from Cisco's Talos group about the leveraging of DNS espionage.
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