Security Now with Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Feb 26th 2019

Security Now 703

Out in the Wild

Attacks in the Wild

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Category: Help & How To
  • A number of ongoing out-in-the-wild attacks 
  • Another early-warned Drupal vulnerability 
  • A 19-year old flaw in an obscure decompress for the "ACE" archive format
  • Microsoft reveals an abuse of HTTP/2 protocol which is DoSing its IIS servers.
  • Mozilla faces a dilemma about a wanna-be Certificate Authority and they also send a worried letter to Australia. 
  • Microsoft's Edge browser is revealed to be secretly whitelisting 58 web domains which are allowed to bypass its "Click-To-Run" permission for Flash.
  • ICANN renews its plea for the Internet to adopt DNSSEC.
  • NVIDIA releases a handful of critical driver updates for Windows.
  • Apple increases the intelligence of it's Intelligent Tracking Prevention.

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