About this episode

Adrian North discusses critical security alerts and effective ad-blocking solutions.

On today's Signal Check, Adrian North covers overnight security alerts including zero-day exploits hitting SonicWall VPN appliances, a critical remote code execution flaw in 7-Zip, and public exploits now targeting WordPress Core. We also dig into a clever five-dollar ad-blocking solution that outperforms commercial tools and why patching can't wait when attackers are already inside your perimeter.

People in this episode

Host: Adrian North

Topics covered

• security alerts
• zero-day exploits
• remote code execution
• ad-blocking solutions
• patching vulnerabilities

Keywords

• security alerts
• zero-day exploits
• SonicWall
• 7-Zip
• WordPress
• ad-blocking
• patching

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SonicWall, WordPress

Products: VPN appliances, 7-Zip

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