Chrome throttling ads, Google outage, 2020 Pwnie Awards, JavaScript's 25th birthday.

• Chrome's heavy ad intervention.
• Adrozek.
• Ransomware: "Double Extortion."
• A 0-click wormable vulnerability in D-Link VPN servers.
• Google suffered an outage.
• Amnesia:33.
• Zero-day in WordPress SMTP plugin.
• The 2020 Pwnie Awards.
• The end of Flash.
• JavaScript is celebrating its 25th birthday.
• InitDisk release 4 published.
• A deep look at the SolarWinds hack.

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