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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 […]

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Security 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 […]

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Security Bits — 16 February 2025

Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. DNS discussion update: as pointed out by Ferrers in the Podfeet Slack, Cloudflare’s free DNS service does offer an equivalent to Quad9’s malware-blocking DNS service — Details on their website 1.1.1.1 — unfiltered DNS […]

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Security 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 […]

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Security 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 […]

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Security 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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