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, January 3, 2021, and this is show number 817. With another year successfully buttoned up, we start out 2021 with what I think will be a great show. […]
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Security Bits — 3 Jan 2021
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. More Details Emerge on the Solar Winds Attack As expected, the private sector was targeted too: Big tech companies including Intel, Nvidia, and Cisco were all infected during the SolarWinds hack — www.theverge.com/… Microsoft Says […]
Continue readingNC #816 Geofency, iCatcher!, Dark Reader, Affinity for Cross Stitch, Security Bits on ODoH
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, December 27, 2020, and this is show number 816. I hope you all had a safe, if quiet holiday. Thanks to the kindness of the NosillaCastaways, I was […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 27 December 2020 – Oblivious DNS over HTTPS or ODoH
Deep Dive — Cloudflare & Apple add Privacy to Secure DNS with ODoH Cloudflare, Apple, & hosting company Fastly have collaborated to create a new secure and private DNS specification that extends DNS over HTTPS (DoH). They’ve both released the spec, and released sample implementations of the various components in Ruby and Go. The Problem […]
Continue readingNC #815 Night Before Christmas, Apple Fitness+, Security Bits on SolarWinds and Apple’s Tracking Transparency
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, December 20, 2020, and this is show number 815. mp3 download For the last month or so, Bart’s RSS feeds for Security Bits have been unusually light and […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 20 December 2020 – SolarWinds, Apple’s Tracking Transparency
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Listener Thomas Cooper Question — Is TikTok a National Security Threat? TL;DR — nope We got some listener feedback asking about the US’s proposed ban on TikTok on national security grounds. This is very […]
Continue readingNC #813 Family Sharing of In-app Purchases, CodeNewbie, Alt-Tags on Twitter, Feeder 4, 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, December 6, 2020, and this is show number 813. Normally I like to write you epic tomes where I dig deep into some arcane subject or at least […]
Continue readingNC #811 How to Update Catalina, Hazel 5 Standalone App, 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 22, 2020, and this is show number 811. We’ve got a big show today because in Security Bits we had two Security Mediums. They were both really […]
Continue readingNC #809 Watchshot, Power PC G5, espanso, 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 8, 2020, and this is show number 809. mp3 download Chit Chat Across the Pond This week’s Chit Chat Across the Pond was another installment of Programming […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 8 November 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Connecting COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps Across Europe is Starting to Work — www.macobserver.com/… Deadline is December 8 for App Store Privacy Labels — www.macobserver.com/… Apple will require privacy “nutrition labels” from developers starting December […]
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