Jan 8th 2019
Security Now 696
Here Comes 2019!
Hosted by
Steve Gibson,
Leo Laporte
The Top Security Stories of 2019 (So Far)
Records live every Tuesday at 4:30pm Eastern / 1:30pm Pacific / 21:30 UTC.
- The NSA announces the forthcoming release of an internal powerful reverse-engineering tool for examining and understanding other people's code.
- Emergency out-of-cycle patches from both Adobe and Microsoft.
- PewDiePie hacker strikes again.
- Prolific 0-day dropper SandboxEscaper ruffles some feathers.
- A new effort by the US government to educate industry about the risks of Cyber attacks.
- Welcome news on the ransomware front.
- VERY welcome news of a new Windows 10 feature.
- A note about a just-published side-channel attack on OS page caches.
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