This week we examine the recent flaws discovered in the secure Signal messaging app for desktops, the rise in DNS router hijacking, another seriously flawed consumer router family, Microsoft Spectre patches for Win10's April 2018 feature update, the threat of voice assistant spoofing attacks, the evolving security of HTTP, still more new trouble with GPON routers, Facebook's Android app mistake, BMW's 14 security flaws and some fun miscellany. Then we examine the news of the next-generation of Spectre processor speculation flaws and what they mean for us.

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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