Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Thanks to the iOS 17 & macOS Sonoma Betas we now know more about how password sharing in iCloud Keychain will work — www.macobserver.com/… (iOS) & appleinsider.com/… (macOS) Everyone needs to have an iCloud […]
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Security Bits — 11 June 2023
Deep Dive — Security & Privacy Highlights from WWDC As with most things WWDC, this is a glimpse of the future rather than new tools we get to use today, but I think it’s still worth taking a little time to look at some of the security and privacy enhancements Apple announced. Apple’s current Communications […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 28 May 2023
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. We now know that Pegasus was used in the war over the Nagorno-Karabakh region in Azerbaijan (an un-recognized independent republic with close ties to Armenia) from 2020 to 2022, with the Armenian foreign minister’s […]
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Sonos Roam SL Bluetooth Shower + Hero Clip — by Bart Busschots
Sonos Roam with Hero Clip In a recent show Allison described her journey to a new Bluetooth shower speaker. Based on the review I don’t think you could do better than follow her advice if you want an affordable Bluetooth speaker, but, what if you want AirPlay 2 in your shower? If you’re an all-Apple […]
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Tefeca Apple Watch Bands for Fit and Comfort — Bart Busschots
During some recent pre-recording chitter-chatter I mentioned to Allison that I’m absolutely in love with an extra wide Apple Watch band from a company named Tefeca, and she asked me to do a quick review, so her wish is my command 🙂 The band I’m so in love with is officially named the ‘Tefeca Fortitude […]
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Security Bits — 14 May 2023
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Apple issues Rapid Security Response update for iOS 16.4.1, macOS 13.3.1 — appleinsider.com/… Related: A nice link to bookmark and send to friends and family who ask for more info: What Are Rapid Security […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 30 April 2023
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 US Facebook users can now claim their share of the Cambridge Analytica settlement — appleinsider.com/… 🇬🇧 The battle against the UK’s daft plan to ban End-to-End Encryption goes on, with WhatsApp taking the […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 16 April 2023
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 […]
Continue readingSecurity 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 […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 19 March 2023
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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