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SN 895: After 20 years in GCHQ - Stranger Strings, PayPal passkeys, new TCP/IP RCE in Windows

Security Now (Audio)

Leo Laporte

Technology, Spyware, Steve Gibson, Twit, Encryption, Security, Cyber Crime, Hacking, Malware, Leo Laporte

4.62.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

  • Picture of the Week.
  • Windows driver blocklist to be updated next Tuesday.
  • More Microsoft shenanigans.
  • An upcoming OpenSSL CRITICAL vulnerability update -- get ready!
  • A new TCP/IP RCE in Windows.
  • A study of malicious CVE proof of concept exploits in GitHub.
  • "Stranger Strings" : An exploitable flaw in SQLite.
  • PayPal to add support for Passkeys.
  • A browser exploitation tutorial!
  • Kathleen Booth: July 9th, 1922 – September 29, 2022.
  • Closing The Loop.
  • SpinRite.
  • After 20 years in GCHQ.

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-895-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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0:00.0

It's time for security now. Steve Gibson is here. We have an update on that Microsoft Windows driver block list

0:07.0

Flaw, I guess you'd call it three years. They have an updated it finally

0:10.5

They have and how you can do it manually anytime you want

0:15.2

SQL light SQL ITE has a big security flaw

0:19.8

It's everywhere. We got to fix this one and then some thoughts

0:23.9

After 20 years in Britain's GC HQ what we've learned about security

0:29.9

It's all coming up next on security now

0:34.9

Podcasts you love from people you trust

0:38.9

This is twit

0:45.2

This is security now with Steve Gibson episode 895

0:49.9

Recorded Tuesday November 1st, 2022 after 20 years in GC HQ

0:57.9

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