Allison interviews Frank Polidoro from Lockly about their new smart safes with PIN Genie code access and their app-free digital locks that provide remote access control for buildings and rooms. Frank showed Lockly’s Smart Safe, which is WiFi-enabled and can be opened via three secure methods: code entry, biometric fingerprint, or smartphone access. Lockly’s PIN […]
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Security Bits — 21 December 2024
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 Following the FBI earlier in the month, and following the revelation that 8 major US telcos were compromised by the Chinese government, the US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has joined the […]
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CES 2024: Pawport Smart Secure Pet Door
Allison interviews Martin Diamond, CEO of Pawport, about their new smart and secure pet door. Pawport features a patented design that slides onto existing pet doors using the grove on the existing pet door frame. A simple screw locks Pawport into place and cannot be removed from the outside. Pawport opens and closes on demand […]
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Security 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 […]
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Generating Random, Secure, Memorable Passwords in Your Head – by Allister Jenks
In late 2020 AgileBits, the folks behind 1Password, published a blog post entitled Randomness (or things humans do poorly). It’s a fascinating article on randomness in computers, but near the beginning is this paragraph. As I’ve alluded to with the title of this post, humans are notoriously terrible at creating randomness. You’ll doubtless have heard […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 24 July 2021
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. The PrintNightmare story continues to evolve with yet another privilege escalation bug being found in the print spooler — it’s now more important than ever to follow Microsoft’s advice and stop and disable the […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits – 8 September 2019
Followup Apple draws a line under the ‘Siri Grading’ kerfuffle with a a public letter apologising for not reaching their own high standards, explaining how Siri protects user privacy, and outline some changes to how grading will be carried out in future — www.apple.com/… Apple send as little as possible data to Siri, using on-device […]
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Dorothy’s Process to Search for the Best Secure Email Service
Intro Hello, NosillaCastaways. This is macLurker, also known as Dorothy, Allison’s gym buddy. For a long time, I have been wanting to change my primary email service & name. I’ve had it for years and years. It’s long since been sold into the dark web. It’s time to wipe the slate clean and start over. […]
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Security Bits – 3 Jan 2019
Notable Security Updates Microsoft released an emergency fix for an IE Zero-day — krebsonsecurity.com/… Logitech have released a critical security update for their Logitech Options app (used to configure some of their devices). Unfortunately the fix was two days too late, coming two days after Project Zero released details of the bug (time was up) […]
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CES 2018: Oledcomm LiFi Connectivity
Allison interviews Benjamin Azoulay from Oledcomm about their Infrared LiFi wireless solution. Oledcomm uses a Li-Fi-enabled lightbulb to transmit data at speeds as fast as 50 megabits per second. LiFi is secure and private since the LiFi signal does not cross walls. The setting is CES Unveiled at the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas. […]
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