Security Now with Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

May 17th 2016

Security Now 560

Z-Wave Goodbye

Did John McAfee and team crack WhatsApp's encryption?

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Steve's long love affair with Windows, the Oracle/Google JAVA API lawsuit, the pending registration of "burner" phones, surveillance microphones found in public areas, John McAfee and team crack WhatsApp's encryption?  The Ring Doorbell may need another update, a security-related Kickstarter which Security Now listeners would never fall for, a controversial feature being removed from Windows 10, a worrisome and exploitable heap corruption in the popular 7-Zip application and a look a the Z-Wave Home Automation system.

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