Feedback & Followups
- 🇺🇸 An interesting (and slightly depressing) look at the DOJ’s change in official policy around the CFAA from the security researcher’s POV: What Counts as “Good Faith Security Research?” — krebsonsecurity.com/…
- Social Media Developments
- Instagram brings Amber Alerts to 25 countries, including the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and much of Europe — www.imore.com/…
- Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Ecuador, Greece, Guatemala, Ireland, Jamaica, Korea, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Romania, South Africa, Taiwan, Ukraine, the UK, the United Arab Emirates and the US
- Instagram is making its Sensitive Content Controls available in more parts of their interface (currently only on the Explore tab) — www.imore.com/…
> “… the protections will soon apply to search, Reels, hashtag pages, ‘accounts you might follow’ and suggested posts that appear in users’ main feeds.”
- Instagram brings Amber Alerts to 25 countries, including the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and much of Europe — www.imore.com/…
❗ Action Alerts
- Windows users beware, the Follina zero-day is being actively exploited, and there’s no patch yet — for now, disable the
ms-msdt://url scheme — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/…- Microsoft’s official guidance — msrc-blog.microsoft.com/…
- Related: experimenting with other non-standard URL schemes in Windows, a security researcher found a way to use
search-ms://URLs to pop up a window showing a file listing on a remote server which could be helpful as part of a social engineering attack — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/…
Notable News
- The passwordless future is starting to look a lot more real:
- Apple announced and demoed FIDO Passkeys in their WWDC keynote: www.imore.com/…
- Related: 🎦 Apple have also published a developer session explaining their implementation of Passkeys in much more detail: developer.apple.com/…
- 1Password has joined the FIDO Alliance — blog.1password.com/…
- Apple announced and demoed FIDO Passkeys in their WWDC keynote: www.imore.com/…
- Apple revealed more security improvements for their upcoming OSes than just Passkeys — www.intego.com/…
- Apple Launches Rapid Security Response, A New Feature for Applying Security Updates on the Fly — www.macobserver.com/…
- Safety Check is a new iOS 16 feature to help people in abusive relationships — www.imore.com/…
- iOS 16 will lock deleted and hidden photos away behind Face ID & Touch ID — www.imore.com/…
- iOS 16 will support FaceID in landscape mode — www.imore.com/…
Interesting Insights
- Sophos have released a report breaking down the attack vectors used by attackers in 144 real-world attacks they helped investigate in 2021: Know your enemy! Learn how cybercrime adversaries get in… — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/…
- hint: ‘patchy, patchy, patch, patch!’ 😉
Palate Cleansers
*A very joyful episode of the SMR Podcast about Chris Ashley’s new Ford F-150 Lightning EV Episode F-150: SMRpodcast Episode #450
Legend
When the textual description of a link is part of the link it is the title of the page being linked to, when the text describing a link is not part of the link it is a description written by Bart.
| Emoji | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 🎧 | A link to audio content, probably a podcast. |
| ❗ | A call to action. |
| flag | The story is particularly relevant to people living in a specific country, or, the organisation the story is about is affiliated with the government of a specific country. |
| 📊 | A link to graphical content, probably a chart, graph, or diagram. |
| 🧯 | A story that has been over-hyped in the media, or, “no need to light your hair on fire” 🙂 |
| 💵 | A link to an article behind a paywall. |
| 📌 | A pinned story, i.e. one to keep an eye on that’s likely to develop into something significant in the future. |
| 🎩 | A tip of the hat to thank a member of the community for bringing the story to our attention. |