Episode #243: Critical Vulnerability in Popular Image Rendering Library Under Active Exploitation; Google Alters Search Queries for Profits; Hundreds of Women in Cybersecurity Convene in Arlington, VA to Drive Industry Transformation; This Day in Tech History

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Mark Miller:  October 4th, 1968. The new issue of Science Magazine contains a Hewlett Packard ad for its new HP9100A. The ad boasted the dynamic functionality of this new device called both a personal computer. and a programmable calculator.  

Edwin Kwan: A popular library for rendering images in the WebP format has a critical vulnerability that is under active exploitation. The vulnerability is with the LibWebP library and it suffers from a heap buffer overflow, which allows a remote attacker to perform an out-of-bounds memory write.

Katy Craig:  Google is secretly altering billions of queries every day, all with one goal in mind: to lead you into purchasing more products and services.

Hillary Coover: We're all familiar with the "She-cession," but were you aware that the cybersecurity industry lost 40 percent of its female workforce in that time? That, along with many other jaw-dropping insights, came out of this week's gathering of hundreds of women in cybersecurity.

From Sourced Network Productions in Washington, DC, it's 5:05. I'm Hillary Coover. Today is Monday, October 4th, 2023. Here's the full story behind today's cyber security and open-source headlines.