Security Now with Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Jan 8th 2019

Security Now 696

Here Comes 2019!

The Top Security Stories of 2019 (So Far)

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  • 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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