• The implications of the recent increase in bounty for the purchase of 0-day vulnerabilities.
• The intended and unintended consequences of last week's Windows Patch Tuesday.
• Speaking of unintended consequences, the US Government shutdown has had some, too!
• A significant privacy failure in WhatsApp.
• Another Ransomware decryptor (with a twist).
• Movement on the DNS-over-TLS front.
• An expectation of the cyberthreat landscape for 2019.
• A cloudy forecast for The Weather Channel App.
• A successful 51% attack against the Ethereum Classic cryptocurrency.
• Another court reversing compelled biometric authentication.
• An update on the lingering death of Flash... now in hospice care.

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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