Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇨🇦 More voices against Canada’s proposed End-to-End-Encryption ban: Apple Google Push Judicial Oversight Canada Online Safety Bill — www.reuters.com/… Citizen Lab urges Canada to withdraw parts of Bill C-22 over privacy concerns — cyberinsider.com/… […]
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Security Bits — 24 May 2026
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. More Mythos developments: From Anthropic: Claude Mythos AI Finds 10,000 High-Severity Flaws in Widely Used Software — thehackernews.com/… Aided by Mythos Preview, Researchers Announce macOS Kernel Exploit Circumventing M5 Memory Integrity Enforcement — daringfireball.net/… […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 10 May 2026
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Age Verification Developments: 🇺🇸 Apple have expanded their Digital ID technology to provide anonymous age verification in the US — www.macobserver.com/… “A Digital ID in Apple Wallet created using a U.S. passport can be […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 26 April 2026
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Mozilla says Claude’s Mythos AI helped uncover 271 flaws in Firefox — cyberinsider.com/… Related: OpenAI Releases GPT 5.4 Cyber to Help with Defensive Security — www.macobserver.com/… 🇺🇸 FCC Hands Netgear an Effective Monopoly on […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 12 April 2026
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 A good analysis of the US router ban that had just broken last time: The United States router ban, explained — www.theverge.com/… Reported as a Probably Breach last time: 1.2 million Crunchyroll users […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 24 March 2026
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 We’ve known, unofficially, that the US government uses commercial data brokers to by-pass the 4th amendment and get geolocation data on US citizens for some time, but now it’s on the record: FBI […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 15 March 2026
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. A timely reminder to keep your routers patched and to bin un-supported models via listener BG in the Podfeet Slack: 14,000 routers are infected by malware that’s highly resistant to takedowns — arstechnica.com/… (ASUS […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 1 March 2026
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Notepad++ boosts update security with ‘double-lock’ mechanism — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… (Following the embarrassing compromise of their update infrastructure that required all users to do a manual upgrade late last year) 🇬🇧 A little movement on […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits – 15 February 2026
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Both a good reminder that it’s important to be careful where you get your software from, and an illustration of how the residential proxy networks we recently talked about are built: Laced 7-Zip installers […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 1 February 2026
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. A timely reminder both that malicious ads remain a big problem, and that Mac users are not immune to malware: Mac malware is sneaking into some sponsored Google ads — appleinsider.com/… Deep Dive — […]
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