Cisco is prepping fixes for two of its products affected by last week’s Samba vulnerability. Netgear has also pushed out a fix for NAS devices that were affected.

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap the news of the week, including the Badlock bust, encryption legislation (Burr-Feinstein, the California decryption bill) and the dawn of ‘cryptoworms’ – Mike also discusses last week’s Infiltrate Conference in Miami. Download: Threatpost_News_Wrap_April_15_2016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves

Weeks of anxiety and concern over the Badlock vulnerability ended today with an anticlimactic thud. Badlock was the security boogeyman since the appearance three weeks ago of a website and logo branding the bug as something serious in Samba, an open source implementation of the server message block (SMB) protocol that provides file and print...

Despite the Badlock hype machine cranked up high, we don’t know much about this impending soul-crushing vulnerability other than it could be bad, it could be in the Windows Server Message Block and it already has its own requisite logo and website. Nonetheless, we have a little more than two weeks before the next Microsoft...

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap the week in news, including how the FBI vacated Tuesday’s Apple hearing, a crypto iMessage bug that was patched, and the latest hospital to be hit by the ransomware Locky. The two also preview Badlock and what, if any, implications this week’s announcement may have. Download: Threatpost_News_Wrap_March_25_2016.mp3 Music by Chris...