Security Now with Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Jul 5th 2016

Security Now 567

Hacking Certificates

Steve and Leo discuss in detail how to avoid ransomware for your phone, Androids (FDE) master keys, Travis Ormandy, and a judge in Brazil.

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Category: News

Leo and I catch up with another packed week of security news, including an update on mobile ransomware, the successful extraction of Android's full disk encryption (FDE) master keys, Google's Tavis Ormandy finds horrific flaws in all Symantec traffic analyzing software, a Brazilian judge is at it again with WhatsApp, this week's IoT horror story, some miscellany and errata, and finally a look at a horribly flawed attempt to copy Let's Encrypt automation of free SSL certificate issuance.

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