EPISODE · Mar 20, 2018 · 6 MIN
Security News This Week: A Smartphone Botnet Army Keeps Growing Stronger
from Security, Spoken · host WIRED
Arguably the biggest news in security this week was also the strangest; a company barely a year old announced a series of AMD vulnerabilities, giving the chip company only a day or so advance notice before making the results public. And despite the hype, the bugs themselves were of questionable severity. It was almost as hard to make sense of as YouTube's decision to add Wikipedia links to controversial videos. Almost. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Arguably the biggest news in security this week was also the strangest; a company barely a year old announced a series of AMD vulnerabilities, giving the chip company only a day or so advance notice before making the results public. And despite the hype, the bugs themselves were of questionable severity. It was almost as hard to make sense of as YouTube's decision to add Wikipedia links to controversial videos. Almost. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Security News This Week: A Smartphone Botnet Army Keeps Growing Stronger
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