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, April 12, 2026, and this is show number 1092. Before we get stuck in, I have a correction to make from last week. In my conversation with Ron […]
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Security Bits — 12 April 2026
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 […]
Continue readingNC #1088 Hip Surgery Hardware Weight, Strapsicle for Kindle & iPad mini, Komutr MagSafe Earbuds, 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, March 15, 2026, and this is show number 1088. mp3 download Articles How Much Did All That Hardware Weigh That They Put In Me? CES 2026: Strapsicle Straps […]
Continue readingSecurity 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 readingNC #1086 Broken Femur, Rescue Retriever, Audiobook Recording V3 Part 1 Eddie Tonki, 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, March 1, 2026, and this is show number 1086. mp3 download Articles It’s Still a Slider — The Broken Femur Edition CES 2026: Rescue Retriever Smoke Detector to […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 1 March 2026
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Notepad++ boosts update security with ‘double-lock’ mechanism — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… (Following the embarrassing compromise of their update infrastructure that required all users to do a manual upgrade late last year) 🇬🇧 A little movement on […]
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 — 18 January 2026
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Some context for a story we covered many times in 2025: Amazon blocked 1,800 employment attempts by North Korean agents — cyberinsider.com/… Yet another reason to steer clear of VS Code forks: VSCode IDE […]
Continue readingNC #1076 Night Before Christmas, New Taming the Terminal, Eddie Tonkoi on Producing an Audiobook
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 Saturday, December 20, 2025, and this is show number 1076. The alert amongst you will realize that if I’m recording on Saturday, that means there will be no live […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 18 December 2025
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Yet another real-world example of the dangers of poor secret hygiene: Over 10,000 Docker Hub images found leaking credentials, auth keys — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… 🇬🇧 UK fines LastPass £1.2M over 2022 data breach impacting 1.6 […]
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