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Security Bits — 6 July 2025

Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Just like we predicted last time: Scattered Spider hackers shift focus to aviation, transportation firms — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… (They’d just pivoted to Insurance and were finding it fallow ground, so we predicted they’d jump again […]

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Security Bits — 22 June 2025

Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Greyware spyware from Pegatron continues to be abused: Graphite spyware used in Apple iOS zero-click attacks on journalists — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… (This all happened a few months ago, and the zero-day was patched back in […]

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Security Bits — 25 May 2025

Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇪🇺 Following the near-miss with the US-funded critically important CVE database earlier this year (CISA nearly let funding lapse without notice, and even then only temporarily extended the existing funding rather than actually renewing […]

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Security Bits — 30 March 2025 (Bart Solo)

Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Thankfully Microsoft have not learned the wrong lesson from their recent over-zealous response to possible malware in the VS Code Marketplace: VSCode Marketplace Removes Two Extensions Deploying Early-Stage Ransomware — thehackernews.com/… Attackers are continuing […]

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Security Bits – 29 September 2024

Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Consequences arrive for past failure: 🇺🇸 AT&T pays $13 million FCC settlement over 2023 data breach — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… 🇪🇺 Meta fined €91M by the Irish Data Protection Commissioners for storing over 600 million passwords […]

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Security Bits – 2024-06-23

Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Microsoft delays Windows Recall amid privacy and security concerns — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… (Initially only to Windows Insiders AKA beta testers) The scale of the Snowflake breach we discussed last time becomes clearer: Snowflake Breach Exposes […]

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Security Bits — 2024 May 26

Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Attackers are continuing to compromise Google ads, and they’re now targeting apps in the news as well as developer & sysadmin tools: Arc browser’s Windows launch targeted by Google ads malvertising — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… Ransomware […]

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