SN 699: Browser Extension Security

SN 699: Browser Extension Security

Tuesday, January 29, 2019, 7:18 PM

Security Now (Audio)

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• The expressive power of the social media friends we keep
• The persistent DNS hijacking campaign which has the US Government quite concerned
• Last week’s iOS and macOS updates (and doubtless another one very soon!)
• A valiant effort to take down malware distribution domains
• Chrome catching up to IE and Firefox with drive-by file downloads
• Two particularly worrisome vulnerabilities in two Cisco router models publicly disclosed last Friday
• The state of the industry and the consequences of extensions to our web browsers.

We invite you to read our
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Hosts:
Steve Gibson
and
Leo Laporte

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Sounds like another packed show, and I’m looking forward to it. This should be fun.


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