Episode 17: 3 Severe WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Mikey Veenstra joins us to talk about three WordPress plugins with severe vulnerabilities affecting well over 150,000 WordPress installations. Two plugins have been patched, one has not. With Mark under deadline for a film project, Mikey also talks some security news with Kathy. We cover a Docker vulnerability, anatomy of a SIM port attack, zero-day Windows exploits released by a disgruntled security researcher, two large scale data leaks affecting millions of people, and revisit the Baltimore ransomware problem and how the NSA's Eternal Blue tool was used in the attack.

1:00 Interview with Mikey Veenstra on 3 severe WordPress plugin vulnerabilities
13:00 The news, and where's Mark?
13:30 Docker vulnerability not yet patched
16:24 Anatomy of a SIM port attack
20:17 Microsoft 0-day exploits on github
25:34 XSS vulnerability discovered in Slimstat plugin
26:26 Over 49 million Instagram users data exposed
29:28 First American Financial leaked hundreds of millions title insurance records
34:20 How an NSA malware tool was used in the Baltimore ransomware attack