Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Just like we predicted last time: Scattered Spider hackers shift focus to aviation, transportation firms — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… (They’d just pivoted to Insurance and were finding it fallow ground, so we predicted they’d jump again […]
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Security Bits — 25 May 2025
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇪🇺 Following the near-miss with the US-funded critically important CVE database earlier this year (CISA nearly let funding lapse without notice, and even then only temporarily extended the existing funding rather than actually renewing […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 11 May 2025
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. A great example of why it’s important to patch – this is one of the things the Apple updates we called out last time patched: Apple ‘AirBorne’ flaws can lead to zero-click AirPlay RCE […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 27 April 2025 — Deep Dive into Quantum Computing
Deep Dive — Where are we with Quantum Computing NosillaCastaway @milddemons asked the following in the Podfeet Slack: “I am wondering if you know and can tell us what the security community is up to in regards to quantum computing breaking the encryption that we have now. I just thought about this as Microsoft has a quantum computing […]
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NC #1041 Brisk It, Twelve South Book Arc, Kagi, Ki Wireless Power, Twelve South Curve Riser, Sign-Speak AI & Security Bits
Hi, this is Bart Busschots from Bartificer Creations guest-hosting the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias, and for today, a more than slight Irish accent 😉 Today is Sunday, April 20, 2025, and this is show number 1041. Happy Birthday, Allison & Steve! Happy […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 20 April 2025 (Solo) 🐣
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Rather aptly for this solo show, NosillaCastaway MildDeamons perfectly expressed the reason I much prefer recording with Allison on the NosillaCast Slack when he posted: > “I really enjoy it (and I think most […]
Continue readingA Lexicographical Loop with ‘nym’ Words (Bart Busschots)
Indulge me while I embrace the intentional open-endedness of the Nosillacast name to share some geeky fun from a different type of language to the ones I normally drone on about — human language! In my school days, languages were by far my weakest subjects, and I’d go so far as to say I developed […]
Continue readingHow I Fell in Love with Kagi (Bart Busschots)
I’ve been advocating the follow the money philosophy for over a decade now — your data, and hence you privacy, are valuable, so you need to choose carefully who you entrust them to, and the best way to figure out who is and who isn’t trustworthy is to understand how they pay their bills. Once […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 16 March 2025 ☘️
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 The UK’s secret campaign to compel Apple to break its iCloud Advanced Data Protection feature is reportedly continuing apace (still without official confirmation), with a hearing having apparently taken place in a […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 2 March 2025
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Yet another reminder that developers are in the attacker’s sights: VSCode extensions with 9 million installs pulled over security risks — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… Microsoft’s prompt and very effective response to proactively disabled the plugin in […]
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