Security Now with Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Mar 7th 2017

Security Now 602

Let’s Spoof!

Why Amazon AWS S3 crashed the web.

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Category: Help & How To

Countdown to March's patch Tuesday; what was behind Amazon's S3 outage? Why don't I have a cellular connectivity backup? Some additional Cloudflare perspective, Amazon to fight another day over their Voice Assistant's privacy, an examination of the top 9 Android password managers uncovers problems, another lifeless malware campaign found in the wild, security improvements in Chrome and Firefox, a proof of concept for BIOS ransomware, a how-to walk-through for return-oriented programming, a nifty new site scanning service, Matthew Green compares desktop and mobile security, a bunch of feedback quickies, an incredibly wonderful waste of time accomplishment, the future threat of deliberately fooling AI, and the dark side of automated domain validation certificate issuance.

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