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episode 699: Browser Extension Security
- The expressive power of the social media friends we keep
- The persistent DNS hijacking campaign which has the US Government quite concerned
- Last week's iOS and macOS updates (and doubtless another one very soon!)
- A valiant effort to take down malware distribution domains
- Chrome catching up to IE and Firefox with drive-by file downloads
- Two particularly worrisome vulnerabilities in two Cisco router models publicly disclosed last Friday
- The state of the industry and the consequences of extensions to our web browsers.
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