Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 A good analysis of the US router ban that had just broken last time: The United States router ban, explained — www.theverge.com/… Reported as a Probably Breach last time: 1.2 million Crunchyroll users […]
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Security Bits — 15 March 2026
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. A timely reminder to keep your routers patched and to bin un-supported models via listener BG in the Podfeet Slack: 14,000 routers are infected by malware that’s highly resistant to takedowns — arstechnica.com/… (ASUS […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits – 15 February 2026
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Both a good reminder that it’s important to be careful where you get your software from, and an illustration of how the residential proxy networks we recently talked about are built: Laced 7-Zip installers […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 1 February 2026
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. A timely reminder both that malicious ads remain a big problem, and that Mac users are not immune to malware: Mac malware is sneaking into some sponsored Google ads — appleinsider.com/… Deep Dive — […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 12 October 2025
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Another interesting twist in the NSO Group Saga: Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors — techcrunch.com/… (via Allison) ❗ Action Alerts Calls to action, if any stories in this section are […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 25 May 2025
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇪🇺 Following the near-miss with the US-funded critically important CVE database earlier this year (CISA nearly let funding lapse without notice, and even then only temporarily extended the existing funding rather than actually renewing […]
Continue readingSecurity 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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Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Ransomeware-related developments: The apparent return of the BlackCat ransomeware gang after their recent law enforcement take-down appears to have been short-lived, with the group collapsing with an apparent exit scam: BlackCat Ransomware Group Implodes […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 26 November 2023
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. The recent wave of malicious Google ads targeting software downloads continues, this time it’s malicious versions of the popular Secure FTP client WinSCP — thehackernews.com/… ❗ Action Alerts Calls to action, if any stories […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 9 July 2023
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. We now have more details on how iOS 17’s new Check In safety feature will work: www.macobserver.com/… 🇪🇺 Six companies have confirmed to the EU Commission that they will fall under the Digital Markets […]
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