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SN 776: A Tale of Two Counterfeits - Twitter Hack, Cloudflare Outage, Zoom's Vanity URL Flaw

SN 776: A Tale of Two Counterfeits - Twitter Hack, Cloudflare Outage, Zoom's Vanity URL Flaw

Released Wednesday, 22nd July 2020
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SN 776: A Tale of Two Counterfeits - Twitter Hack, Cloudflare Outage, Zoom's Vanity URL Flaw

SN 776: A Tale of Two Counterfeits - Twitter Hack, Cloudflare Outage, Zoom's Vanity URL Flaw

SN 776: A Tale of Two Counterfeits - Twitter Hack, Cloudflare Outage, Zoom's Vanity URL Flaw

SN 776: A Tale of Two Counterfeits - Twitter Hack, Cloudflare Outage, Zoom's Vanity URL Flaw

Wednesday, 22nd July 2020
 1 person rated this episode
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  • Here's how Twitter was hacked. How can we prevent the next Twitter hack?
  • Cloudflare outage takes out huge swath of American internet, including Down Detector. All internet got sent to Atlanta.
  • Zoom's vanity URL flaw: when is a "zero day" not a zero day?
  • Not all VPNs are created equal.
  • Apple updated its iOS and macOS with a handful of useful security patches.
  • SigRed: "This is not just another vulnerability."
  • And speaking of last week's July Patch Tuesday...
  • "Firefox Send" is still not receiving.
  • A tale of two counterfeits.

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-776-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.

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