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 […]
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Security 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 […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 2 February 2025
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Updated Advice from Bart: back in 2019 I recommended the anti-malware not-for-profit DNS provider QuadNine (9.9.9.9) on the NosillaCast, I had been using it on my router since then, but not anymore, their service […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 19 January 2025
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Following on from Apple’s choice to settle a US class action suit over privacy breaches caused by accidental Siri activations, Apple released a press release confirming my interpretation of the case, and verifying that […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 3 January 2025
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 The recently disclosed massive hack of western telecommunications firms that lead the US FBI & CISA to issue advice to switch to E2EE VoIP and messaging apps like Signal over SMS & phone […]
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Security Bits — 21 December 2024
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 Following the FBI earlier in the month, and following the revelation that 8 major US telcos were compromised by the Chinese government, the US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has joined the […]
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My Smart Home Humidity Journey — by Bart Busschots
Earlier this year I suddenly became very interested in the humidity of the rooms I spend a lot of time in — namely my bedroom, my kitchen, my home office, and my work office. Why? Because I discovered that if you are prone to nose bleeds, dry air is really not your friend. In the […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 8 December 2024
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇨🇳 More details continue to emerge of just how deeply the Chinese government infiltrated the West’s telecommunications networks – it’s not just a few US carriers, it’s carriers in “dozens of countries”, and even […]
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Titanium Milanese Loop for Apple Watch Ultra (and 49mm) – by Bart Busschots
I think it’s fair to say I’m not shy about buying Apple Watch bands — I own about 30 of them, and I use them all. I’ve also reviewed many of them on the NosillaCast over the years. In terms of my fashion sense, my tastes are very simple when it comes to the more […]
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