Jan 15th 2019
Security Now 697
Zerodium
Hosted by
Steve Gibson,
Leo Laporte
Zero-Day Bounties Gone Wild
Records live every Tuesday at 4:30pm Eastern / 1:30pm Pacific / 21:30 UTC.
- The implications of the recent increase in bounty for the purchase of 0-day vulnerabilities.
- The intended and unintended consequences of last week's Windows Patch Tuesday.
- Speaking of unintended consequences, the US Government shutdown has had some, too!
- A significant privacy failure in WhatsApp.
- Another Ransomware decryptor (with a twist).
- Movement on the DNS-over-TLS front.
- An expectation of the cyberthreat landscape for 2019.
- A cloudy forecast for The Weather Channel App.
- A successful 51% attack against the Ethereum Classic cryptocurrency.
- Another court reversing compelled biometric authentication.
- An update on the lingering death of Flash... now in hospice care.
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