Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Last time we learned Facebook abuse EXIF data to track users’ locations even when they ask not to be tracked. The day after we recorded this excellent article came out explaining how to strip […]
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Security Bits — 30 May 2021
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 Hot on the heels of the Colonial Pipeline hack, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has published cybersecurity rules for pipeline operators — www.macobserver.com/… Vizio’s questionable privacy stance has come up a […]
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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. Twitter is continuing its moves to nudge people on its platform towards being better netizens by adding a dialogue to their mobile app warning users when they use potentially abusive language in replies — […]
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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. Apple are letting Parler back into the iOS AppStore, they have apparently sufficiently reformed their moderation practices — www.imore.com/… SolarWinds are changing their name to N-able! — www.n-able.com/… Deep Dive(s) ❗ Action Alerts Calls […]
Continue readingMore TagSecurity Bits — 18 April 2021
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇬🇧 (🏴 & 🏴) Both Apple & Google have stopped the NHS from publishing an update to their COVID app to insert location tracking. This is expressly forbidden in their COVID exposure notification API […]
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Security Bits — 4 April 2021 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 excellent Motherboard reporting last time that showed how easy it was to hijack the SMS messages destined for a US cellphone number, the […]
Continue readingMore TagSecurity Bits — 21 March 2021
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. An interesting timeline of the Microsoft Exchange mega-attack discussed last time (Editorial by Bart: it really begs the question ‘what took Microsoft so long?’) — krebsonsecurity.com/… Bloomberg Report that when Parler (the social media […]
Continue readingMore TagSecurity Bits — 7 March 2021
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Silver Sparrow Mac Malware Update: Correction: in the previous Security Bits we made it sound like 30K M1 Macs were infected with this new strain of malware, and that it only affected M1 Macs. […]
Continue readingMore TagSecurity Bits — 21 February 2021
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. In the previous instalment we joined in the mockery of a Chinese railroad company that relied on Flash for their operations. Listener Tom Merit got in touch with a follow-up article which casts some […]
Continue readingMore TagSecurity Bits — 17 January 2021
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. COVID Update: Apple have released iOS 12.5.1, bug-fix for the un-expected iOS 12.5 recently released to add COVID exposure tracking to older iPhones — www.macobserver.com/… Yelp have added fields to allow reviewers to mark […]
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