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Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson Security Now! with Steve Gibson, Episode 20 is ready for your consideration.
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This week your questions and Steve's answers.
But first, notice of a very serious security flaw in all versions of Windows. This hole takes advantage of poor design choice in the Windows metafile interpreter and can be exploited by a malicious web site or by email attachments.
Despite the fact that the hole was discovered only yesterday, there are already numerous web sites trying to take advantage of it.
There's no patch yet from Microsoft, but fortunately the fix is very easy. Steve documents it at grc.com. Please go there now and apply the fix.
On this show we discuss:
Logging into secure sites
Hamachi troubles
Getting WPA security on old wi-fi equipment
Securing Windows Remote Desktop
The unreliabilty of fingerprint scanners
Using Gmail on a public network
NAT routers vs hardware firewalls
Speed issues with VPN
Removing the Sony rootkit
ISPs that only offer private IP addresses
SSID hiding and why it doesn't work
Port knocking as a form of security
Steve also hosts transcripts, show notes, and a 16kbps version of the show for the bandwidth impaired at grc.com.
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