The Best of Security Now from 2018!
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Rhode Island's response to Google's recent API flawSignal's response to Australia's anti-encryption legislationThe return of PewDiePieUS border agents retaining traveler's private dataThis Week in...
Australia's recently passed anti-encryption legislationDetails of a couple more mega-breaches including a bit of Marriott follow-upA welcome call for legislation from MicrosoftA new twist on online...
Another Lenovo SuperFish-style local security certificate screw upThe Marriott breach and several other new, large and high-profile secure breach incidentsThe inevitable evolution of exploitation...
Yesterday, the US Supreme Court heard Apple's argument about why a class action lawsuit against their monopoly App Store should not be allowed to proceed. How could this affect iOS security?Google...
All the action at last week's Pwn2Own Mobile hacking contestThe final word on processor mis-design in the Meltdown/Spectre eraA workable solution for unsupported Intel firmware upgrades for hostile...
Last month's Patch Tuesday, this monthA GDPR-inspired lawsuit filed by Privacy InternationalCheck these two router ports to protect against a new botnet that's making the roundsAnother...
A close look at the impact and implication of the new "PortSmash" attack against Intel (and almost certainly other) processors. The new "BleedingBit" Bluetooth flaws JavaScript is no longer...
More Zero-day exploits in Windows 10, publicly exposed Docker Engine APIs, Google's plan to fix Android, the DoD is expanding its existing "Hack the Pentagon" bug-bounty program to include hardware...
This week a widely used embedded OS (FreeRTOS) is in the doghouse, as are at least eight D-Link routers which have serious problems most of which D-Link has stated will never be patched. We look at...
This week we observe the untimely death of Microsoft's co-founder Paul Allen, revisit the controversial Bloomberg China supply chain hacking report, catch up on Microsoft's October patching fiasco,...
An October Surprise of a different sort - Windows 10 update deletes users' filesA security researcher has massively weaponzied the existing MicroTik vulnerability and released it as a...
This week we discuss yet another treat from Cloudflare, the growing legislative battle over Net Neutrality, the rise of Python malware, Cisco's update report on the VPNFilter malware, still more...
This week we look at additional changes coming from Google's Chromium team, another powerful instance of newer cross-platform malware, the publication of a 0-day exploit after Microsoft missed its...
This week we prepare for the first ever Presidential Alert unblockable nationwide text message, we examine Chrome's temporary "www" removal reversal, checkout Comodo's somewhat unsavory marketing,...
This week we discuss Windows 7's additional three years of support life, MicroTik routers back in the news (and not in a good way), Google Chrome 69's new features, the hack of MEGA's cloud storage...
This week we cover the expected exploitation of the most recent Apache STRUTS vulnerability, a temporary interim patch for the Windows 0-day privilege elevation, an information disclosure...
This week we catch-up with another busy week. We look at Firefox's changing certificate policies, the danger of grabbing a second-hand domain, the Fortnite mess on Android, another patch-it-now...
As we head into our 14th year of Security Now, this week we look at some of the research released during last week's USENIX Security symposium, we also take a peek at last week's Patch Tuesday...
This week we cover lots of discoveries revealed during last week's Black Hat 2018 and DEF CON 26 Las Vegas security conferences. Among them, 47 vulnerabilities across 25 Android smartphones,...