Threatpost News Wrap, April 22, 2016
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including BlackBerry CEO’s stance on lawful access principles, the FBI/Apple hearing, Viber adding end-to-end crypto, Teslacrypt, and more.
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"Distrust and caution are the parents of security" - Benjamin Franklin
Cisco Patches Denial-of-Service Flaws Across Three Products
Cisco released software updates to address five separate denial of service vulnerabilities, all which the company considers either high or critical severity, across its product line this week.
Oracle Fixes 136 Vulnerabilities With April Critical Patch Update
Oracle fixed 136 vulnerabilities across 46 different products this week as part of its regularly scheduled Critical Patch Update.
BlackBerry’s CEO defended the actions it took to provide Canadian law enforcement with what it needed to decrypt communications between devices.
Google put app developers on notice last week, urging them to comply with a new set of privacy policies designed to better promote transparency it plans on enforcing this summer.
VMware fixed a critical vulnerability in one of its products this week that could’ve led to a man in a middle attack if exploited by an attacker.
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap the news of the week, including the Badlock bust, encryption legislation, and cryptoworm ransomware. Mike also discusses last week’s Infiltrate Con.
Mike Mimoso talks to Katie Moussouris about her newly launched consultancy Luta Security, the Hack the Pentagon bug bounty program, and more.
CBS recently fixed a vulnerability in its popular Sports application that could have exposed users to man-in-the-middle attacks and inadvertently leaked personal data.
Researchers have cobbled together a decryption tool for victims of the Petya ransomware, allowing most users to generate keys in less than 10 seconds.
