Deep Dive 1 — Opera’s ‘VPN’ is Useful but Poorly Named Opera made some news by expanding out their free in-browser security feature they call a VPN to iOS, this makes the feature truly cross-platform, covering Windows, Mac, Android, and now iOS. This news triggered me to look into the feature before linking to the […]
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Security Bits — 2 April 2023
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇮🇹 🇱🇺 🇳🇱 🇵🇹 Apple expands Emergency SOS via satellite to six more countries — appleinsider.com/… (Austria, Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands & Portugal) Deep Dive — Two aCropalypses TL;DR — the […]
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Deep Dive — Critical Android Base-Band Vulnerabilities❗ TL;DR: this is bad — remote code execution without user interaction over the cellular network, combined with the usual level of security confusion that goes with Android’s model. Unless your Android device is on the list of known-patched devices, or unless your vendor has explicitly announced that they […]
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Deep Dive 1 — The Last Pass Breach Reports Since we last recorded, LastPass have released a lot of very detailed information. This is finally the level of detail I expect to see from responsible organisations. The structure and contents of the various reports are in line with industry norms at last. The best entry […]
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Evangelising macOS Spaces
A few weeks ago Allison and Ron described Apple’s new Stage Manager feature, and why it works so well for them on NosillaCast episode 919. What I loved about that piece is that they started from the assumption that Stage Manager isn’t for everyone, and then helped people both understand the feature, and whether or […]
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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 the warning linked last time about the dangers of using AirTags to track pets, The Mac Observer have some recommendations for trackers that are specifically designed to safely track pets — […]
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Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Anker admits that Eufy cameras were never encrypted — appleinsider.com/… Apple have released their support for hardware Fido tokens for iCloud 2FA — sixcolors.com/… Editorial by Bart: remember that this feature comes with a […]
Continue readingMore TagSecurity Bits — 22 January 2023 (Just Bart)
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. LastPass Update: It gets worse, we now know there were some people with just 500 rounds of PBKDF2, and even a few with one round 🙁 There was a brief false dawn when some […]
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Microsoft Remote Desktop, Core Shell, and Transmit Allison asked me to hijack this format for a special instalment where I share three related apps I’m still using that share a theme — connecting to remote computers. My day job has changed in many ways in recent months as I’ve transitioned from being a vanilla sysadmin […]
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Deep Dive 1 — Rethinking the Last Pass Breach (It’s Worse 🙁) Two weeks ago the latest details on the Last Pass breach were much fresher, and since then two things have happened: More facts have come to my attention More well-reasoned opinions have been expressed In terms of new information we have the following: […]
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