This week’s Threatpost News Wrap Podcast recaps the ROCA, KRACK and Boundhook attacks, as well as the release of Google Advanced Protection for Gmail.
Threatpost editors Mike Mimoso and Tom Spring recap this week’s infosec news starting with the ROCA vulnerabilities affecting factorization of RSA private keys, the KRACK WPA2 Wi-Fi vulnerabilities, the BoundHook attacks, and Google’s introduction of Advanced Protection for Gmail.
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Music by Chris Gonsalves.
Show Notes:
The Kr00k bug arises from an all-zero encryption key in Wi-Fi chips that reveals communications from devices from Amazon, Apple, Google, Samsung and others.
The Windows 10 update that’s rolling out addresses insecure Wi-Fi hotspots with new user notifications.
The new strategy allows an attacker to instead lift ID information directly from the router, within minutes.
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