[$] The Thunderclap vulnerabilities

It should come as no surprise that plugging untrusted devices into acomputer system can lead to a wide variety of bad outcomes-though oftenenough it works just fine. We have reported on a number of these kinds ofvulnerabilities (e.g. BadUSB in 2014) alongthe way. So it will not shock readers to find out that anothervulnerability of this type has beendiscovered, though it may not sit well that, even after years of vulnerableplug-in buses, there are still no solid protections against these roguedevices. This most-recent entrant into this space targets the Thunderboltinterface; thevulnerabilities found have been dubbed "Thunderclap".