Security Now with Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Dec 15th 2020

Security Now 797

SolarWinds

Chrome Throttling Ads, Google Outage, 2020 Pwnie Awards, JavaScript's 25th Birthday

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Chrome throttling ads, Google outage, 2020 Pwnie Awards, JavaScript's 25th birthday.

  • Chrome's heavy ad intervention.
  • Adrozek.
  • Ransomware: "Double Extortion."
  • A 0-click wormable vulnerability in D-Link VPN servers.
  • Google suffered an outage.
  • Amnesia:33.
  • Zero-day in WordPress SMTP plugin.
  • The 2020 Pwnie Awards.
  • The end of Flash.
  • JavaScript is celebrating its 25th birthday.
  • InitDisk release 4 published.
  • A deep look at the SolarWinds hack.

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