Security Now with Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Sep 27th 2016

Security Now 579

DDoS, Breaches and Other Records To Be Broken

Akamai terminates Brian Krebs' free DDoS service after a massive sustained attack.

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Brian Krebs, Akamai and Google's Project Shield, Yahoo's record-breaking, massive 500 million user data breach, Apple's acknowledged iOS 10 backup PBKDF flaw, well known teen hacker jailbreaks his new iPhone 7 in 24 hours, Microsoft formally allows removal of "Get Windows 10", a new OpenSSL SERVER DoS flaw, more WoSign/StartCom woes (Mozilla prepares to pull the plug), Bittorrent Sync renamed and more deeply documented, and more!

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