Workable Tech (audio)

Recorded Sunday, February 11, 2018 Exploits, exploits everywhere. This week we discuss exploits of the Cisco vulnerability, Spectre, and Meltdown, as well as a bug in WordPress and the coming release of Office 2019. Also, Kerry demos the new Amazon WordPress plugin that creates audio versions of blog posts. Story 1: You Can't Say We Didn't Warn You The bad guys are starting to hammer feverishly at the Cisco device and Spectre/Meltdown vulnerabilities. That mega-vulnerability Cisco dropped is now under exploit: Bug with maximum severity rating is generating plenty of interest among hackers (Ars Technica) Meltdown & Spectre Emerge (Security Now!) Story 2: WordPress Auto-Update Broken WordPress 4.9.3 broke auto-update, so you need to manually update to 4.9.4 to fix it. WordPress Update Breaks Future Auto-Updates. Manually Update Now! (Wordfence Blog) Story 3: Office 2019 Release Details Office 2019 is coming... for most of us. Office 2019 Releasing Later this Year Only for Windows 10 Users (AskVG) Story 4: