Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home from Monday, May 11th, 2020.

I'm Brian McCullough today. A flaw in Thunderbolt basically means no computers are secure.

Qualcomm's new flagship chip,

Eric Schmidt has finally left the Googleplex,

detecting malware via gray scale images,

Apple is reopening stores,

and we might have a new tech IPO as soon as next month.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. A researcher says that Thunderbolt ports have an unpatchable flaw that could allow

hackers with physical access to the port to have the ability to circumvent data safeguards. This so-called Thunder Spy Attack

takes less than five minutes to pull off and it affects any PC manufactured before 2019.

So some new PCs are not affected and actually I've seen some reports that

AMD chips might not be affected but quoting from Wired.

On Sunday, Eindhoven University of Technology researcher

Bjorn Reutenburg revealed the details of a new attack method he's calling Thunderspy.

On Thunderbolt enabled Windows or Linux PCs manufactured before 2019, his technique

can bypass the log-in screen of a sleeping or locked computer and even its hard disk encryption to gain full access to the computer's data.

And while his attack in many cases requires opening a target laptop's case with a screwdriver,

it leaves no trace of intrusion and can be pulled off in just a few minutes.

That opens a new avenue to what the security industry calls an evil-made attack,

the threat of any hacker who can get a loan time with a computer in say a hotel room.

Rittenberg says there's no easy software fix only disabling the thunderbolt port altogether will work.

All the evil maid needs to do is unscrew the back plate, attach a device momentarily,

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