010: The dolls must be destroyed

A creepy teddybear leaks two million voicemail messages, Windows 10 pushes you into only installing vetted apps, and Boeing warns 36,000 employees their personal information could have been exposed after a worker sends a spreadsheet to his wife.

All this and more is discussed by computer security veterans Graham Cluley, Vanja Svajcer and Carole Theriault.

SHOW NOTES:

• Announcing the first SHA1 collision
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• Tavis Ormandy: Cloudflare Reverse Proxies are Dumping Uninitialized Memory
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• Incident report on memory leak caused by Cloudflare parser bug
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• List of Sites possibly affected by Cloudflare's #Cloudbleed HTTPS Traffic Leak
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• Quantifying the impact of "CloudBleed"
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• CloudPets commercial
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• Data from connected CloudPets teddy bears leaked and ransomed, exposing kids' voice messages
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• Microsoft slaps Apple Gatekeeper-like controls on Windows 10: Install only apps from store
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• Boeing Notifies 36,000 Employees Following Breach

 

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