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Air date: Dec 13, 2016

A Brilliantly Horrific New Ransomware Twist. This week, Leo and Steve discuss ticket-buying bots getting their hand slapped (do they have hands?), a truly nasty new addition to encrypting ransomware operation, a really dumb old problem returns to many recent Netgear routers, Yahoo!'s being too pleased with their bug bounty program, Steganometric advertising malware that went undetected for two years, uBlock Origin readies for a big new platform, what exactly is the BitDefender "BOX"? (We wish we knew!), VeraCrypt was audited... next up is OpenVPN! (Yay!), the definitive answer to the question of where Spock's thumb should be, Steve's new relaxing and endless puzzler, and... questions from our listeners!