Feedback & Followups
- An example of a very advanced and powerful honeypot: Microsoft creates fake Azure tenants to pull phishers into honeypots — www.bleepingcomputer.com/…
- Apple have followed through on their promise to allow cybersecurity researchers to test the security of the Private Cloud Compute platform driving the parts of the Apple Intelligence that run off-device — appleinsider.com/… & www.bleepingcomputer.com/…
Worthy Warnings
- Severe flaws in E2EE cloud storage platforms used by millions — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… (E2EE == End to End Encryption)
- Sync, pCloud, Icedrive, Seafile & Tresorit
- Responses by the companies varied widely
Notable News
- 🇪🇺 Ireland fines LinkedIn €310 million over targeted advertising — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… (5 GDPR breaches, and LinkedIn said they will make changes to comply with this ruling)
- New FIDO proposal lets you securely move passkeys across platforms — www.bleepingcomputer.com/…
- WhatsApp now encrypts contact databases for privacy-preserving synching — www.bleepingcomputer.com/…
- 🇺🇸 CISA proposes new security requirements to protect govt, personal data — www.bleepingcomputer.com/…
- > “The requirements are aimed at entities that engage in restricted transactions that involve bulk U.S. sensitive personal data or U.S. government-related data”
- Similar to NIS2 (Network and Information Security Directive) coming into force in Europe
- Editorial by Bart: interesting/terrifying how basic the requirements really are, boils down to, ‘Do the basics, and do them right!’
- 🇺🇸 FTC ‘Click to Cancel’ rule makes canceling subscriptions as easy as starting them — appleinsider.com/…
Excellent Explainers
- Understand these seven password attacks and how to stop them — www.bleepingcomputer.com/…
- Acronym Overdose – Navigating the Complex Data Security Landscape — thehackernews.com/…
Interesting Insights
- 🇺🇸 A disturbing exposé by a number of security and privacy reporters illustrating just how badly the US is in need of some federal privacy regulation:
Palate Cleansers
- From Bart: 🎦 Cabel Sasser (from Panic)’s XOXO Talk — www.youtube.com/… (not about tech, too good an ending to spoil by saying anymore, just trust me 🙂)
Legend
When the textual description of a link is part of the link it is the title of the page being linked to, when the text describing a link is not part of the link it is a description written by Bart.
| Emoji | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 🎧 | A link to audio content, probably a podcast. |
| ❗ | A call to action. |
| flag | The story is particularly relevant to people living in a specific country, or, the organisation the story is about is affiliated with the government of a specific country. |
| 📊 | A link to graphical content, probably a chart, graph, or diagram. |
| 🧯 | A story that has been over-hyped in the media, or, “no need to light your hair on fire” 🙂 |
| 💵 | A link to an article behind a paywall. |
| 📌 | A pinned story, i.e. one to keep an eye on that’s likely to develop into something significant in the future. |
| 🎩 | A tip of the hat to thank a member of the community for bringing the story to our attention. |
| 🎦 | A link to video content. |