SN 797: SolarWinds - Chrome Throttling Ads, Google Outage, 2020 Pwnie Awards, JavaScript's 25th Birthday - a podcast by TWiT

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.

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-797-Notes.pdf

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