SN 801: Out With The Old - SolarWinds Smoking Gun, Signal Influx of WhatsApp Users, Male Chastity Cage - a podcast by TWiT

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SolarWinds smoking gun, Signal influx of WhatsApp users, male chastity cage.


  • Firefox and Chromium updates address remote system take over bugs.

  • Tenable researchers reported a critical Chromium bug.

  • What Firefox's backspace key does and should do.

  • How Ryuk malware operations netted $150 million via cryptocurrency exchange.

  • Intel: A triumph of marketing over technology.

  • The strange case of the Male Chastity Cage.

  • A SolarWinds smoking gun? "Sunburst backdoor."

  • A class action lawsuit filed by shareholders of SolarWinds stock.

  • The "Krebs Stamos Group"

  • Zyxel security endpoints under attack.

  • WhatsApp revises their privacy policy.

  • Signal sees a mass influx of WhatsApp users.

  • Out with the old: A look at the history of SpinRite code.

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-801-Notes.pdf


Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte


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