Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Developments in the Avast Browser History Data Sales story: Avast kills off Jumpshot, the subsidiary that sold all your Web data — arstechnica.com/… 🇨🇿 Czech Authorities to Investigate Avast Over Sale of Users’ Browser […]
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Security Bits — 9 February 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🧯Intel have released a fix for yet another named bug in performance-enhancing features of their CPUs. This one is named CacheOut because it involves cache evictions. The key takeaway is that like the other […]
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NC #768 Cubo, ioTrapster, otter.ai, Insta360 ONE R, Drinkworks by Keurig, 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, January 26, 2020, and this is show number 768. This week’s show is going to be a blast. We’ve got an interview about an AI-based baby monitor and […]
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Feedback & Followups Following on from Apple’s introduction of support for FIDO2 in iOS 13, Google now allow you to use an iPhone as a hardware security token — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… 🇺🇸 Following on from YouTube’s recent $170 million fine for breaching COPPA, a bi-partisan bill has been introduced in the US House of Representatives named […]
Continue readingMore TagNC #766 Kaylee’s Frustration, Acouva, Anna, Sandman, DxO Photolab, Segway S-Pod, 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, January 12, 2020, and this is show number 766. We’re back from CES and as a result, we’ve got a MASSIVE show for you. mp3 download
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Commentary by Allison — Bart is testing out a new format which in theory will cut the time it takes him to do Security Bits in half. This week is 4 weeks worth of security news so it’s not the best test case, but the new format is here. We welcome feedback on it as […]
Continue readingMore TagNC #763 First Mac Impressions from a Windows User, Night Before Christmas, QLab, 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 22, 2019, and this is show number 763. Thanks to many awesome listeners, we’ll have full shows for every one of the holiday weekends. Because of these […]
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Note: This is the second of two episodes both recorded on the 15th of December 2019, but released over two weeks. Security Medium 1 — An Over-hyped VPN Weakness The internet positively hyper-ventilated when security researchers claimed to have found a bug in the TCP/IP implementation on just about every OS that could compromise just […]
Continue readingMore TagNC #762 Tom on the Internet, Capto, Security Bits
This week we’ve got my explanation of how programming keeps me from writing, then a small topic about Taming the Terminal by Tom on the Internet, followed by my extensive review of the screen capture tool Capto, and we’ve got Bart Busschots with the first half of Security Bits. We saved the Security Mediums and […]
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Note: This is the first of two episodes both recorded on the 15th of December 2019, but released over two weeks. 🧯Security Medium Preview 1 — VPNs Not All Hacked We’ll dig into the details in the second part of this two-parter, but for now, I just want to set everyone’s mind at ease — […]
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