Steve Gibson, the man who coined the term spyware and created the first anti-spyware program, creator of SpinRite and ShieldsUP, discusses the hot topics in security today with Leo Laporte. Records live every Tuesday at 4:30pm Eastern / 1:30pm Pacific / 21:30 UTC.
SN 1010: DNS Over TLS - Record DDoS, Hackers Get Hacked
- eM Client CAN be purchased outright.
- An astonishing 5-year-old typo in MasterCard's DNS.
- An unwelcome surprise received by 18,459 low-level hackers.
- DDoS attacks continue growing, seemingly without any end in sight.
- Let's Encrypt clarifies their plans for 6-day "we barely knew you" certificates.
- SpinRite uncovers a bad brand new 8TB drive.
- Listener feedback about TOTP, Syncthing and UDP hole punching, email spam, ValiDrive speed, AI neural nets, DJI geofencing, and advertising in the "New" Outlook.
- A look into the tradeoffs required to obtain privacy for our DNS lookups
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1010-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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