Hello, welcome to the Thursday, July 30th, 2020 edition of the Sansandot Storm Center's Stormcast.

My name is Johannes Ulrich, and the I'm recording from Jacksonville, Florida.

You probably noticed that VPNs have become a big thing to sell, and lots of, for example, YouTube videos are featuring VPN vendors as

sponsors. Well, just lately there have been some preaches that actually leaked logs from

VPNs that claimed not to do any logging. So I took a quick look at some of the claims that some of these VPNs make and

how they stack up with reality. Just a little post here to compare what VPNs can and cannot do.

And of course, what some of the drawbacks are of routing all of your traffic through VPN

providers' endpoints.

And talking about better anonymous browsing, there's actually a new version of Tails, the

Linux distribution that's built around Tor and other technologies to make browsing as anonymous as possible.

Now, this version does fix a number of security vulnerabilities, also updates the underlying

browser, the latest version of Firefox.

So we do have an update for Firefox, also an update for Chrome. The Chrome update

was actually released on Monday. Nothing I would call super critical here, of course. The advisories

are very limited. Firefox is talking about some potential privacy leaks,

which is probably why it's so important that you also update tales.

But then we also have a vulnerability in Grubb 2

that has received quite a bit of press,

and well, in part, it's justified in part not.

This is really one of those a little bit tricky vulnerability is to really sort of gauge

the potential. Corrupt 2 is your bootloader.

So it's the software that's running before your operating system is actually booted.

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