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Security – 181 – Reboot Your Router

The FBI tells us to reboot our router (go on, we can wait)

More Malware on Android phones

Troy Hunt shows us the Password light

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/05/fbi-tells-router-users-to-reboot-now-to-kill-malware-infecting-500k-devices/

https://www.engadget.com/2018/05/24/report-finds-android-malware-pre-installed-on-hundreds-of-phones/

https://www.troyhunt.com/pwned-passwords-in-practice-real-world-examples-of-blocking-the-worst-passwords/

https://www.troyhunt.com/have-i-been-pwned-is-now-partnering-with-1password/

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Security 180 – #Efail

we cover what this new PGP vulnerability is, we talk about a big goof from signal, and we finish with your cell phone location data:

https://efail.de/

https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2018-May/060334.html

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/tracking-firm-locationsmart-leaked-location-data-for-customers-of-all-major-u-s-mobile-carriers-in-real-time-via-its-web-site/

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/senate-voted-stand-net-neutrality-now-tell-house-do-same

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Security 179 – Good Police Work

Main story is how California police caught the serial killer using DNA tests.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/gedmatch-a-tiny-dna-analysis-firm-was-key-for-golden-state-killer-case/

Pocketcasts gets a new home: https://blog.shiftyjelly.com/2018/05/04/the-next-chapter/

Reinstating open internet rules: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-internet/u-s-senate-to-vote-to-reinstate-open-internet-rules-idUSKBN1I9351

Georgia Governor vetos Security Bill

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-passwords/twitter-urges-all-users-to-change-passwords-after-glitch-idUSKBN1I42JG