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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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Security Bits — 21 December 2024

Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 Following the FBI earlier in the month, and following the revelation that 8 major US telcos were compromised by the Chinese government, the US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has joined the […]

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Security Bits — 8 December 2024

Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇨🇳 More details continue to emerge of just how deeply the Chinese government infiltrated the West’s telecommunications networks – it’s not just a few US carriers, it’s carriers in “dozens of countries”, and even […]

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Security Bits — 24 November 2024

Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 The scope of the Chinese State-sponsored hack of telcos expands: T-Mobile confirms it was hacked in recent wave of telecom breaches — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… A rare leak of what the GreyKey phone unlocking […]

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Security Bits — 10 November 2024

Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇦🇺 Apple is testing an enhancement to its child protection features in Australia – when Apple’s existing opt-in nudity detection AI feature flags an image as potentially problematic, a new option appears to allow […]

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Security Bits — 27 October 2024

Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. An example of a very advanced and powerful honeypot: Microsoft creates fake Azure tenants to pull phishers into honeypots — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… Apple have followed through on their promise to allow cybersecurity researchers to test […]

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Security Bits — 13 October 2024

Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 More consequences for past misdeeds: T-Mobile pays $31.5 million FCC settlement over 4 data breaches — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… Marriott settles with FTC, to pay $52 million over data breaches — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… Two notable developments […]

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