Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. The industry is fighting back against the recent spike in supply-chain attacks targeting shared library platforms like NPM, PyPi, etc.: GitHub tightens npm security with mandatory 2FA, access tokens — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… 🇺🇸 Details are […]
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Security Bits — 31 August 2025
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 The leaked data from the Allianz Life breach discussed last time has been added to Have-I-Been-Pwned, so you can now check if you are affected — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… There have been confusing developments in […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 1 August 2025
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇬🇧 It looks like the UK is trying to find a face-saving way to back down from it’s secretive attempt to back-door Apple’s iCloud Advanced Data Protection feature — appleinsider.com/… (Nothing official because everything […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 6 July 2025
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 […]
Continue readingSecurity 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 […]
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