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 Wednesday, July 8, 2026, and this is show number 1105. I’m doing the show early because we’re off to our annual pilgrimage to Macstock Expo. I can’t wait to […]
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Security Bits — 21 June 2026
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Some notable anecdotes to illustrate why Bart and Allison are so cautious about agentic AI: Over 20,000 Instagram accounts stolen in Meta AI support hack — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… (An agentic support agent could be easily […]
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Security Bits — 24 May 2026
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. More Mythos developments: From Anthropic: Claude Mythos AI Finds 10,000 High-Severity Flaws in Widely Used Software — thehackernews.com/… Aided by Mythos Preview, Researchers Announce macOS Kernel Exploit Circumventing M5 Memory Integrity Enforcement — daringfireball.net/… […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 9 November 2025
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. More evidence of the dangers of Agentic Browsers: ChatGPT Atlas Browser Can Be Tricked by Fake URLs into Executing Hidden Commands — thehackernews.com/… Related Article: Be Cautious with Agentic Web Browsers — tidbits.com/… (by […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 26 October 2025
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 US Court Blocks Spyware Vendor NSO Group from Targeting WhatsApp Users — cyberinsider.com/… (Maybe their recent change to US ownership will give this injunction more teeth!) Update on the Tea app which suffered […]
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Make Site-Specific Browsers with Unite
You may remember way back in 2008, when Bart Busschots taught us about site-specific browsers. A site-specific browser is kind of what it says on the tin: it’s a browser designed to go to one specific site. We’ll go through how site-specific browsers can be created, and I’ll explain what problems can be solved along […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 31 August 2025
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 The leaked data from the Allianz Life breach discussed last time has been added to Have-I-Been-Pwned, so you can now check if you are affected — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… There have been confusing developments in […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 1 August 2025
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇬🇧 It looks like the UK is trying to find a face-saving way to back down from it’s secretive attempt to back-door Apple’s iCloud Advanced Data Protection feature — appleinsider.com/… (Nothing official because everything […]
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CCATP #815 — Bart Busschots Clarifies VPNs and iCloud Private Relay
On Chit Chat Across the Pond #814, Adam Engst and I discussed the results of a VPN survey he conducted with the TidBITS subscribers. From there, we got into a discussion where Adam challenged the common wisdom that we need a VPN when we’re on public WiFi networks. We got a bit mired in some […]
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CES 2025: Sign-Speak Sign Language AI
Allison interviews Nicholas Wilkins from Sign-Speak about their service that uses AI to recognize sign language or speech and convert that to an avatar that signs the message, allowing you to share your signed message with others. The service also supports sign-to-text and speech-to-text conversion. Sign-Speak ensures privacy and safety and is accessible 24 hours […]
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