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, May 29, 2022, and this is show number 890. mp3 download June 6th is the WWDC Keynote, and as always, Steve and I will be in the live […]
Continue readingMore TagTag: vulnerabilities
Security Bits — 9 January 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Log4Shell (Log4J): Log4Shell-like security hole found in popular Java SQL database engine H2 — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… 🇺🇸 FTC threatens “legal action” over unpatched Log4j and other vulns — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… 🇬🇧 Meta (né Facebook) have decided […]
Continue readingMore TagSecurity Bits — 1 October 2021
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇫🇷 Pegasus spyware found on 5 French cabinet members’ phones — www.intego.com/… Social Media Developments: Facebook pauses Instagram Kids development following widespread concerns — www.imore.com/… YouTube Is Banning Prominent Anti-Vaccine Activists and Blocking All […]
Continue readingMore TagSecurity Bits — 11 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 Western Digital story from last time has continued to evolve: More devices are affected: Another 0-Day Looms for Many Western Digital Users – Krebs on Security — krebsonsecurity.com/… But there have also been […]
Continue readingMore TagSecurity Bits — 21 March 2021
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. An interesting timeline of the Microsoft Exchange mega-attack discussed last time (Editorial by Bart: it really begs the question ‘what took Microsoft so long?’) — krebsonsecurity.com/… Bloomberg Report that when Parler (the social media […]
Continue readingMore TagSecurity Bits — 6 December 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Social Media companies continue to work to curb abuses on their platforms: Twitter will soon show a warning when you try to like a misleading tweet — www.imore.com/… 🇰🇷 Facebook continues to run afoul […]
Continue readingMore TagSecurity Bits — 4 October 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. COVID apps continue to roll out 🇺🇸 Pennsylvania launches contact tracing app built on Apple and Google tech — www.imore.com/… 🇬🇧 (🏴 🏴) — NHS COVID-19 app released in England and Wales — www.imore.com/… […]
Continue readingMore TagSecurity Bits — 13 September 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Recently we were alerted by Allister Jenks and Joe Preiser in our slack at podfeet.com/slack to a problematic idea I had on the last Security Bits. We were talking about how choosing an alphanumeric […]
Continue readingMore TagSecurity Bits — 30 August 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 Pennsylvania has announced plans to release an Apple/Google-based COVID app in September — www.imore.com/… Which U.S. states are using Apple’s Exposure Notification API for COVID-19 contact tracing? 9to5mac.com/… 🇦🇺 Australia’s non-Google/Apple COVID app […]
Continue readingMore TagSecurity Bits — 16 August 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. COVID Exposure Notification/Contact Tracing apps continue to roll out: 🇺🇸 Virginia releases first Apple and Google-powered COVID-19 app in U.S. — www.imore.com/… 🇺🇸 North Dakota, Wyoming, and Alabama follow: Three more U.S. states launch […]
Continue readingMore Tag