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After catching up with a very busy week of interesting security news and events, Leo and I examine the growing privacy and security problems created by the ever more pervasive social widgets - Facebook's LIKE button, Google's +1, Twitter's Tweet!, and others - and they offer an easy-to-use free solution!

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We 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.

For this special year-end holiday edition of Security Now!, I dug down deep into my video archives, taking back 22 years, to 1990, to share a 45-minute presentation I gave, once upon a time, on the inner workings of the "megabyte-sized" hard disk drives that gave birth to the PC industry.

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We 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.

After catching up with the week's news, Leo and I take a deep dive into the technology of the ever-more-ubiquitous "QR Codes" which are popping up everywhere and are increasingly being used, not only for good, but with malicious intent.

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We 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.

After catching up with lots of interesting security news, updates on Steve's Acoustic Dog Training project, and lots of other miscellany, Leo and I examine a recently developed and increasingly popular Internet security protocol, DTLS, which combines the advantages of UDP with SSL security.

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We 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.

After catching up with an interesting and varied grab-bag of security news and paraphernalia, Tom and I further examine the controversy surrounding Microsoft's decision to enable the Do Not Track (DNT) "signal" header in IE10, and share some insights gained from a recent Microsoft Executive VP Keynote presentation about exactly this issue.

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We 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.

This week, after failing to find much in the way of interesting security news, Leo and I make up for that by introducing the concept of "Fully Homomorphic Encryption," which allows encrypted data to be operated upon WITHOUT it first being decrypted, and results remain encrypted.

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We 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.

After catching up with the week's most important security news, Leo and I wind up our propeller-cap beanies, right to the breaking point of their springs, in order to obtain enough lift to examine and explore the operation of ECC - Elliptic Curve Cryptography - the next-generation public key cryptography technology.

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We 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.

After catching up with just a tiny bit of security news (it was a very quiet week in security), Leo and I take the podcast's first-ever comprehensive look at the emerging and increasingly popular NFC (Near Field Communications) technology, which is now present in tens of millions of cell phones and other mobile and fixed-location devices.

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We 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.

We begin the week with a visit with our distinguished guest, Mark Russinovich, late of Sysinternals and now with Microsoft. Mark joins us to chat about the release of his second security thriller, "Trojan Horse," and to share some of his view of the security world.

After catching up with an eventful week of security news, Leo and I step back for an overview and discussion of the slowly evolving state of the art in Internet Identity Authentication.

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We 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.

We have so much security news and information to cover this week that we didn't have time to take questions from our listeners. What we have, instead, is a LOT of interesting news about the new Java vulnerabilities, new TNO cloud storage solutions, and lots more.

After catching up with a collection of miscellaneous and interesting security-related news, Leo and I take a close look at the long-term consequences of the many massive password leakages which have occurred. The upshot? Hackers are getting MUCH better at cracking passwords, and "clever" techniques can no longer be regarded as safe.

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We 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.

After catching up with an eventful week of security news, Leo and I describe and explore the details of the "epic hack" that recently befell well-known technology writer Mat Honan.

After catching up with an eventful week of security news, Leo and I explore a variant of the story of "Ali Baba's Cave" as a means for clearly explaining the operation and requirements of cryptographic Zero-Knowledge Interactive Proofs.

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We 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.

After catching up with the week's security news, Leo and I take a close look at the recent "DNS Changer" malware, the FBI's role in the "takedown" of the malicious servers, and the expert technical assistance provided by Paul Vixie, one of the pioneers and principal developers of the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS).

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We 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.

After catching up with a few items of security and privacy news, Leo and I return to the Internet's "Buffer Bloat" problem to share the new solution "CoDel" (pronounced "coddle") that has been developed by several of the Internet's original and leading technologists and designers.

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We 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.

This week, after catching up with a large amount of the week's news, Leo and I carefully examine two major new discoveries about the Windows Flame worm.

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We 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.

Steve and Leo tackle two new and interesting threats to Internet security. First, the newly discovered "Flame" / "Flamer" / "Skywiper" malware dwarfs Stuxnet and Duqu in capability and complexity. Then they examine the work of two University of Michigan researchers who have detailed a collection of new ways to attack the TCP protocol. They inject malicious content into innocent web pages and add malicious links to online chats.

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We 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.

After catching up with the week's news, Steve and Leo look at the state of the slow but sure and steady progress being made to tighten up the Internet's eMail security. Since spoofing and phishing continue to be huge problems, these problems continue to command the attention of the Internet's largest commerce, financial, and social networking domains. The good news is: There's good reason for hope!!

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We 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.

After catching up with the week's news and Twitter feedback, Leo and I closely examine three remote cloud storage solutions whose Crypto was done COMPLETELY right, Offering full TNO (Trust No One) security. And one of them makes me (Steve) wish I were a Mac user!

During this special Q&A episode, Iyaz and I host an entirely Twitter-driven Q&A episode, caused by the flurry of interest created by last week's focus upon Cloud Storage Solutions. After catching up with the week's security-related events, we zip through 21 tweets, then focus upon and examine the security architecture of one controversial and popular cloud storage provider: Backblaze.

After catching up with the week's news, Leo and I examine ALL of the various cloud-based synchronizing, storage and backup solutions we could find. I survey each one in turn, and Leo chimes in with his own personal experience with many of the offerings. We conclude that SpiderOak looks like the winner, though Jungle Disk is still in the running.

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We 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.

After catching up with the week's news, Leo and I examine the inner workings of the most popular password managers for Apple's iOS devices to determine whether and to what degree they offer enhanced security for safe password storage.

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We 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.

After catching up with the week's news, Leo and I 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.

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We 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.

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 TCP & HTTP protocols, 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.

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We 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.

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.

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We 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.

This week, after catching up with a busy and interesting week of security news and events, Leo and I 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 many features.

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We 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.

This week, after catching up on an interesting week of Security and Privacy news and legislation, Leo and I 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.