Feedback & Followups
- 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine continues to affect IT:
- 🇷🇺 Twitter have made two policy changes: (www.imore.com/…)
- In line with international law, government accounts won’t be allowed to post images of POWs
- Twitter’s algorithm will stop promoting tweets from accounts operated by governments that oppress the media
- 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇷🇺 The FBI, working closely with German agencies have struck two blows against Russian-backed cybercrime operations, targeting the Cyclops Blink botnet and the Hydra darkweb market place — krebsonsecurity.com/…
- 🇷🇺 Twitter have made two policy changes: (www.imore.com/…)
- Social Media updates:
- WhatsApp makes Communities official including admin features, more — www.imore.com/… (A way for organisations like Schools to have managed shared online spaces)
- 🇵🇭 Meta Says Facebook Removed Over 400 Accounts Ahead of Philippines Election — www.macobserver.com/…
- WhatsApp stops saving media to iPhones when disappearing messages are enabled — www.imore.com/…
- Meta announces plans to monetize the Metaverse, and creators are not happy — arstechnica.com (47% commission in some cases!)
- Twitter Experimenting with Unmention Feature to Bow Out of Conversations — www.macobserver.com/… (Editorial by Bart: I want this, and I want it now! 🙂)
- App Tracking Transparency (ATT) turns 1 year old, and analysts have found something surprising – more users are choosing to be tracked now than this time last year — 9to5mac.com/…
- Tim cook continued Apple’s fight against regulations to force side-loading on iOS at a speech to the annual International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) conference — Tim Cook delivers speech railing against “data industrial complex,” sideloading — arstechnica.com
- 🇪🇺 It’s recently come to light that the Pegasus spyware was deployed against EU officials last year, but we don’t know by whom — www.macobserver.com/…
- Mail on Apple Watch no longer leaks IP addresses with privacy features enabled — www.imore.com/…
Deep Dive(s)
❗ Action Alerts
- ❗ Yet another Chrome zero-day emergency update – patch now! — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/…
- Patch Tuesday has been and gone, and included patches to some bugs being actively exploited in the wild — Microsoft Patch Tuesday, April 2022 Edition — krebsonsecurity.com/…
- Google’s monthly Android updates patch numerous “get root” holes — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/…
- Apple have released security updates for macOS Big Sur, addressing the issues they patched in Monterey a few weeks ago. Still no update for Catalina (the security community have been very critical about Apple’s heal-dragging on these patches) — www.macobserver.com/… & www.intego.com/…
Worthy Warnings
- The Cash app has experienced a security breach — www.imore.com/… (>8M users affected, includes names, account numbers, account values, holdings & trading activities)
- Brian Krebs warns of a new tactic being used by Crypto-scammers – well-polished YouTube presentations with genuine crypto celebrities presented as a live stream with links to the scam overlaid as lower-thirds to make it look like the celebrities are endorsing the scams — krebsonsecurity.com/…
Notable News
- OpenSSH goes Post-Quantum, switches to qubit-busting crypto by default — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/…
- Related: 🎧 A podcast episode from last summer that explains the quantum computing landscape very well, including describing what quantum computers will and won’t be able to do, and where the hardware is now: Sean Carroll’s Mindscape Podcast Episode 153: John Preskill on Quantum Computers and What They’re Good For — overcast.fm/…
- DuckDuckGo browser now on Mac in beta — www.imore.com/… (This is a closed beta, you can only apply to join at wait-list ATM)
Excellent Explainers
Interesting Insights
- 🇺🇸 An excellent deep-dive into the motivations driving various companies in their lobbying attempts against regulators: The Senate Bill That Has Big Tech Scared — www.wired.com/…
Palate Cleansers
- From the Community: Your Mac has a hidden internet speed test tool — www.imore.com/… (@oetgrunnen on Twitter, AKA Joop)
- From Allison: A literal camera obscura — twitter.com/…
- From Bart: PhotoActive Episode 115: iPhone Camera Tips & Tricks — overcast.fm/…
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. |