Security Now 801

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.

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