Join Scott Young and Shaun Sturby from Optrics Engineering as they discuss a new thin client backdoor for devices managed by HP Device Manager, how the US Treasury Department might fine you for paying the ransom if you’re attacked by ransomware and a new UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) malware.

Timecodes:

0:00 – Intro
0:17 – Today’s 3 topics
0:51 – Topic 1: SonicWall VPN Bug (Patch Now)
2:37 – Topic 2: Five Eyes Asking for an Encryption Backdoor
5:10 – Topic 3: Bot Caught Posting to Reddit
8:43 – Bonus: An Onion Too Sexy for Facebook
11:25 – Closing remarks

Learn more about SonicWall’s VPN bug here:

• CVE-2020-5135 – Buffer Overflow in SonicWall VPNs – Patch Now
• SonicWall Security Advisor Vulnerability List

Learn more about Five Eyes nations (plus Japan and India) wanting an encryption backdoor here:

• Five Eyes nations plus Japan, India call for Big Tech to bake backdoors into everything

Learn more about the software engineering discovering the bot posting on Reddit here:

• Software Engineer Catches Intelligent Bot Posting on Reddit

Learn more about the onion “too sexy” for Facebook here:

• Why some onions were too sexy for Facebook