Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇦 🇷🇺 To comply with international sanctions on Russia over its invasion and annexation of Ukraine, Apple have removed a major Russian app from VK from all app stores — appleinsider.com/… Deep Dive — […]
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Security Bits — 25 September 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 Google have gotten SEC approval to pilot their controversial political ad spam by-pass feature with a limited number of campaigns in this year’s US mid-term elections — appleinsider.com/… 🇺🇸 The recent revelations of […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 11 September 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Twitter begins testing long-awaited edit button — www.cultofmac.com/… Formal Confirmation of unconfirmed reports from The Intercept a few months ago: Facebook engineers have no idea what happens with user data — appleinsider.com/… Deep Dive(s) […]
Continue reading# Security Bits — 27 August 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 US offers reward “up to $10 million” for information about the Conti gang — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… (This is the gang behind the notorious hack of the Irish Health Service Executive during COVID) Pegasus […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 14 August 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 A graphic illustration of how real the danger of tech company subpoenas is in a post-Roe America: This Is the Data Facebook Gave Police to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion — www.vice.com/… (Facebook […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 3 August 2022
❗ Action Alerts Calls to action, if any stories in this section are relevant to you there is some action you should take. SAMBA have patched a critical bug in their open source implementation of Microsoft’s Active Directory, if you use SAMBA, patch ASAP! — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… The commonly used open source crypto library GnuTLS has […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 24 July 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇷🇺 Russia’s hostility towards western companies continues as it adds Apple to the list of companies it’s fining for not storing Russian citizens data in Russia (Twitch, Pinterest, Airbnb, UPS & Google had already […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 10 July 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇪🇺 The Digital Markets Act (DMA) & Digital Services Act (DSA) have both moved one step closer to going into effect, having been approved in the European Parliament. The final step is formal approval […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 26 June 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. An interim report on the EU’s investigation of the NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware reveals that the company has admitted to selling its product in at least five EU countries (the company are not sure […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits with Bart Busschots — 12 June 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 An interesting (and slightly depressing) look at the DOJ’s change in official policy around the CFAA from the security researcher’s POV: What Counts as “Good Faith Security Research?” — krebsonsecurity.com/… Social Media Developments […]
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