SN 990: Is Telegram an Encrypted App? - CrowdStrike Exodus, DDoS-as-a-Service, 'Active Listening' Ad Tech?

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Leo Laporte

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

4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 129 minutes

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Summary

Telegram puts End-to-End Privacy in the Crosshairs
Free security logging is good for everyone
CrowdStrike hemorrhaging customers
Microsoft to meet privately with EDR (Endpoint Detection & Response) vendors
Yelp's Unhappy with Google
Telegram as the hotbed for DDoSass – DDoS as a Service
Chrome grows more difficult to exploit
Cox Media Group's "Active Listening" has apparently not ended
Cascading Bloom Filter follow-up
Closing the Loop
Is Telegram an encrypted app?

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0:00.0	It's time for security now.
0:01.3	Steve Gibson is here and of course as always there's lots to talk about how many customers did
0:06.7	crowd strike lose if any and why Steve says I'd still be a customer.
0:13.0	We'll also talk about Telegrams founder owner and CEO arrested in France
0:20.0	with what many are seeing as an attack on encrypted communications,
0:24.0	but Steve's going to do a deep dive on telegrams,
0:27.0	and I'm going to put this in air quotes, encryption.
0:29.0	He says, no, it's not really. All that more coming up next on security now.
0:36.0	Podcasts you love from people you trust.
0:42.0	This is Twit.
0:45.0	This is Twit.
0:47.0	This is Security Now with Steve Gibson,
0:52.0	episode 990, recorded Tuesday, September 3rd,
0:56.5	2024.
0:58.1	Is Telegram an encrypted app?
1:01.7	It's time for Security Now, the show we talk about your security, your privacy, and what's going on in the world around us with this cat right here.
1:09.0	Mr. Stephen Tiberius Gibson, the host at gRC.
1:13.5	Hi Steve.
1:14.4	Yo, Leo.
1:16.3	How are you?
1:17.1	I'm looking at these episode numbers
1:19.8	and it's getting pretty exciting.
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