Security Now (Audio)

• Picture of the week.
• The Great CyberSecurity Awakening of 2021.
• Firefox will soon auto-update on Windows even when it's not running.
• Edge takes its own approach to HTTPS switching.
• Three new ransomware victims.
• We believe we know how Colonial Pipeline was breached.
• The FBI strikes back... but how, exactly?
• WordPress force installs Jetpack security update on 5 million sites.
• WordPress Fancy Product Designer.
• GitHub Updates its formal posting policy.
• NAT vs IPv6.
• Project Hail Mary update.
• Extrinsic Password Managers.

We invite you to check out our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-822-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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• Photo of the Week.
• Chrome advances to 91.
• Emsisoft has created their own ransomware decryption tool.
• Stepping off the Sidewalk.
• Just another phishing attack.
• The Great Encryption Struggle.
• Hail Mary.
• Epsilon Red.

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-821-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.

Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page.

For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.

Sponsors:

• plextrac.com/twit
• itpro.tv/securitynow promo code SN30
• vee.am/securitynow

• Picture of the Week.
• Firefox finally achieves sustained "Fission".
• Conti ransomware.
• CNA Financial pays up big.
• When they say IoT do they mean us?
• "Mean Time to Inventory"
• The "Doom" CAPTCHA.
• The "Helios" screensaver.
• Closing the Loop.
• The Dark Escrow.

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-820-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.

Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page.

For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.

Sponsors:

• Melissa.com/twit
• udacity.com/TWiT offer code TWIT75
• expressvpn.com/securitynow

• Picture of the week.
• DarkSide Follow-Up.
• Follow The Money.
• Toshiba Attacked by DarkSide.
• Ransomware topics off-limits here.
• "DarkTracer: DarkWeb Criminal Intelligence"
• Please Leak our Stolen Data!
• Patch Tuesday Review.
• A review of the first book of "The Frontiers Saga"
• 60 Minutes/UAP: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.
• Closing the Loop.
• The WiFi Frag Attacks.

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-819-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.

Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page.

For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.

Sponsors:

• barracuda.com/securitynow
• wwt.com/twit
• extrahop.com/SECURITYNOW

• Picture of the week.
• TsuNAME - "DNS Configuration Flaw Lets Attackers Take Down DNS Servers"
• Huh Google?
• Tor's Exit Nodes.
• 21 Nails in Exim's coffin.
• Project Hail Mary: A Novel.
• Closing the loop.
• SpinRite update.
• News from the Darkside.

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-818-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.

Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page.

For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.

Sponsors:

• canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT
• Bandwidth.com/SecurityNow
• Bitwarden.com/twit