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News Wrap: PoC Exploit Controversy, Cable Haunt & Joker Malware

Published: Jan. 17, 2020, 5:52 p.m.

b'This week\'s news wrap podcast breaks down the biggest Threatpost security stories of the week, including: Various proof-of-concept exploits being released for serious vulnerabilities this week - including for the recently-patched crypto-spoofing vulnerability found by the National Security Agency and reported to Microsoft. Multiple cable modems used by ISPs to provide broadband into homes have a critical vulnerability in their underlying reference architecture, dubbed "Cable Haunt," that would allow an attacker full remote control of the device. Google\'s continual battle against attackers who are infiltrating Google Play with Android apps (more than\\xa017,000 apps to date) distributing\\xa0the Joker malware. Google setting an aggressive two-year deadline for dropping support for third-party tracking cookies in its Chrome web browser.'