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Security Now! - 2012
Episode 334 - Steve and Leo discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. They tie up loose ends, explore a wide range of topics that are too small to fill their own episode, clarify any confusion from previous installments, and present real world 'application notes' for any of the security technologies and issues we have previously discussed.
Episode 335 - After catching up with only a small bit of the week's security news, Steve and Leo discuss the recent revelation of a fundamental security flaw in the functioning of the WiFi WPA standard. WiFi Access Points, following the certification-mandated default configuration, allow an attacker to obtain network access within just a few hours.
Episode 336 - Steve and Leo discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. They tie up loose ends, explore a wide range of topics that are too small to fill their own episode, clarify any confusion from previous installments, and present real world 'application notes' for any of the security technologies and issues we have previously discussed.
Episode 337 - This week, after catching up on an interesting week of Security and Privacy news and legislation, Steve and Leo examine the troubled Wi-Fi Protected Security (WPS) protocol in detail to understand its exact operation, and to examine a series of limitations that cannot be resolved.
Episode 338 - Steve and Leo discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. They tie up loose ends, explore a wide range of topics that are too small to fill their own episode, clarify any confusion from previous installments, and present real world 'application notes' for any of the security technologies and issues we have previously discussed.
Episode 339 - This week, after catching up with a busy and interesting week of security news and events, Steve and Leo take a close look at ScriptNo, a new Chrome extension created by a developer who left Firefox (and NoScript) for Chrome and was pining for NoScript's features.
Episode 340 - Steve and Leo discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. They tie up loose ends, explore a wide range of topics that are too small to fill their own episode, clarify any confusion from previous installments, and present real world 'application notes' for any of the security technologies and issues we have previously discussed.
Episode 341 - This week, after catching up with the week's security and privacy news, Steve and Leo examine the feasibility of the hacker group “Anonymous” successfully taking the Internet offline after a disavowed Internet posting has claimed they intend on March 31st.
Episode 342 - Steve and Leo discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. They tie up loose ends, explore a wide range of topics that are too small to fill their own episode, clarify any confusion from previous installments, and present real world 'application notes' for any of the security technologies and issues we have previously discussed.
Episode 343 - This week, after catching up with the week's security and privacy news, Steve and Leo take a detailed look at the World Wide Web's current HTTP protocol and examine the significant work that's been done by the Chromium Project on “SPDY,” a next-generation web protocol for dramatically decreasing page load times and latency and improving performance and interactivity.
Episode 344 - Steve and Leo discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. They tie up loose ends, explore a wide range of topics that are too small to fill their own episode, clarify any confusion from previous installments, and present real world 'application notes' for any of the security technologies and issues we have previously discussed.
Episode 345 - After catching up with the week's news, Steve and Leo examine the growing concern over, and performance problems created by, the Internet's “Buffer Bloat,” which has been silently creeping into our networks as the cost of RAM memory used for buffers has been dropping. It's easy to assume that more buffering is good, but that's not true for the Internet.
