Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the week in news–including how researchers disrupted a campaign using the Angler Exploit Kit, how a researcher was forced to pull a talk from a conference, and how a practical SHA-1 collision could be months away, not years.
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the week in news–including how researchers disrupted a $30M campaign using the Angler Exploit Kit, how another researcher was forced to pull a talk from a conference, and how a practical SHA-1 collision could be months away, not years.
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Music by Chris Gonsalves
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