SN 766: ThunderSpy

Thunderbolt security flaw, Zoom buys Keybase.

• Why the ThunderSpy Thunderbolt security flaw is such a big deal
• Zoom purchases Keybase to fix encryption
• Firefox 76 released with new features
• But Firefox 76 broke Amazon's Assistant!
• Hallelujah!! Edge moves to silence those annoying notification requests.
• Critical WordPress plugin bugs present on over one million sites
• Critical vBulletin patch
• Samsung has patched a CRITICAL bug affecting the past 6 years of Smartphones
• DefCon and Black Hat 2020 go virtual

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-766-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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