Security Bits — 5 Feb 2022
…— www.imore.com/… 🇺🇸 The EARN It Act is Back and Coming for Social Media Companies — www.macobserver.com/… Facebook’s Failed ‘Diem’ Stablecoin Now Officially Over — www.macobserver.com/… Deep Dive 1 —…
…— www.imore.com/… 🇺🇸 The EARN It Act is Back and Coming for Social Media Companies — www.macobserver.com/… Facebook’s Failed ‘Diem’ Stablecoin Now Officially Over — www.macobserver.com/… Deep Dive 1 —…
…Legal System. — www.nytimes.com/… What’s the best approach to patching vulnerabilities? — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… 🇺🇸 The U.S. Government Is Utterly Inept at Keeping Your Data Secure — newrepublic.com/… Propellor Beanie Territory…
…things – http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/05/14/may-patch-tuesday-critical-for-users-of-internet-explorer-and-web-based-services/ Adobe update Flash, Acrobat & Reader – http://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/adobe-updates-flash-player-reader-and-acrobat-with-major-bug-fixes/ FireFox 21 fixes a bunch of security vulnerabilities – http://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/mozillas-firefox-21-fixes-critical-vulnerabilities/ Apple updates iTunes for all, and Quicktime for Windows…
…home users has just been updated to get better at evading AV software — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… A good indication of why GitHub are enabling Push Protection by default: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-12-million-auth-secrets-and-keys-leaked-on-github-in-2023/ Signal’s phone-number…
…Command-Control-Q ) on your Macs. Run the Terminal command listed in the support article https://support.1password.com/switch-to-opvault/ Run this command on each of your Macs. (This will ensure that each Mac defaults…
…app. Facebook also recommended all users update ASAP. The facts in this story are hard to come by, so we don’t know as much about the vulnerability as I’d like….
…kids apps and Sign in with Apple. The changes don’t alter the big-picture, but they do carve out some necessary exceptions to make the rules workable — www.imore.com/… & www.macobserver.com/……
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…FIDO U2F token support — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… Apple has joined the FIDO Alliance — www.imore.com/… & www.forbes.com/… Deep Dives Deep Dive 1 — The Sweyntooth Bluetooth Bugs Security researchers have released…
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