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

July 21, 2020

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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