Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Pegasus/NSO Group: Apple Lawsuit Goes After Spyware Firm NSO Group — tidbits.com/… Apple Digital IDs: Apple delays iOS 15’s driver’s license support until ‘early 2022’ — www.imore.com/… Reporting from CNBC reveals details of Apple’s […]
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NC #862 Wireless Lapel Mic, Logos Bible Software, Hocus Focus, Security Bits
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, November 14, 2021, and this is show number 862. This week our grandkids both got colds, and in these times, the sniffles and a cough get you sent […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 4 October 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. COVID apps continue to roll out 🇺🇸 Pennsylvania launches contact tracing app built on Apple and Google tech — www.imore.com/… 🇬🇧 (🏴 🏴) — NHS COVID-19 app released in England and Wales — www.imore.com/… […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 8 March 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. FireFox are continuing their roll-out of DoH, enabling it by default for new installs in the US — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… Google stops indexing WhatsApp chats; other search engines still at it — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… HomeKit Router […]
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FIDO2 — Why Do We Care?
DISCLAIMER I’m not a FIDO expert. I understand the principles and the concepts, but I have no experience with the minute details. I’ve done my best to read as much as I can, and I believe everything here is accurate, but I may have made the odd mistake, and if I have, I apologise! The […]
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Security Bits – 02 November 2018
Followups Apple CEO Tim Cook Is Calling For Bloomberg To Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story — www.buzzfeednews.com/… 🇬🇧 Facebook fined £500K for Cambridge Analytica saga — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… Mirai Co-Author Gets 6 Months Confinement, $8.6M in Fines for Rutgers Attacks — krebsonsecurity.com/…
Continue readingSecurity Bits – Google Plus Data Breach, SSH Vulnerability, WhatsApp and D-Link Vulnerabilities, Apple Privacy Portal
Followup The Facebook hack: Facebook October 2018 security breach: Everything you need to know — www.imore.com/… Facebook opens up about data breach details — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/…
Continue readingSecurity Bits – Facebook Token Hack, Bloomberg Amazon & Apple Servers & China, Facebook Uses 2FA Numbers for Advertising
Security Bits – 5 October 2018 Followups 🇺🇸 The CA IoT security law discussed previously has been signed into law — www.theverge.com/… Google have announced plans to further limit what browser plugins can do in an attempt to crack down on the explosion in plugin-based malware we talked about last time — arstechnica.com/… & nakedsecurity.sophos.com/…
Continue readingSecurity Bits – Zero-Day on macOS, Facebook Rates User Trustworthiness, Facebook’s VPN Was Tracking Users, Excessive Google Tracking, Teenager Hacks Apple
Followups More speculation-based flaws in Intel Chips (Editorial by Bart: as with other recent Spectre/Meltdown variants, there’s no need for home users to panic, just keep your OSes patched. It’s cloud providers that really need to worry about these flaws.) L1 Terminal Fault AKA L1TF – Intel have released mitigations, and they don’t have significant […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits – VPNFilter, CallKit Removal in China, No Telegram Updates in App Store, End of Flash & Silverlight, Papua New Guinea Turns Off Facebook
Followups Spectre & Meltdown Details have been released of a new Spectre variant named Speculative Store Bypass, or SSB. The vulnerability affects AMD, ARM & Intel chips. Thankfully it can be mitigated quite easily, so it’s just a matter of applying software, OS, firmware, and microcode updates as they are released — arstechnica.com/…
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