Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. The SolarWinds attack Malwarebytes Reveals it Was Hacked by Nation-State Behind ‘SolarWinds’ — www.macobserver.com/… Did not use SolarWinds products Vector was their Office365 tenancy (Microsoft spotted suspicious activity on their account and contacted them) […]
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Security Bits — 17 January 2021
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. COVID Update: Apple have released iOS 12.5.1, bug-fix for the un-expected iOS 12.5 recently released to add COVID exposure tracking to older iPhones — www.macobserver.com/… Yelp have added fields to allow reviewers to mark […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 3 Jan 2021
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. More Details Emerge on the Solar Winds Attack As expected, the private sector was targeted too: Big tech companies including Intel, Nvidia, and Cisco were all infected during the SolarWinds hack — www.theverge.com/… Microsoft Says […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 27 December 2020 – Oblivious DNS over HTTPS or ODoH
Deep Dive — Cloudflare & Apple add Privacy to Secure DNS with ODoH Cloudflare, Apple, & hosting company Fastly have collaborated to create a new secure and private DNS specification that extends DNS over HTTPS (DoH). They’ve both released the spec, and released sample implementations of the various components in Ruby and Go. The Problem […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 20 December 2020 – SolarWinds, Apple’s Tracking Transparency
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Listener Thomas Cooper Question — Is TikTok a National Security Threat? TL;DR — nope We got some listener feedback asking about the US’s proposed ban on TikTok on national security grounds. This is very […]
Continue readingSecurity 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 readingSecurity Bits — 22 November 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 Allison mentioned the RIAA’s attack on the youtube-dl open source YouTube downloader library in a previous show. GitHub have now reversed their decision to uphold the RIAA’s DMCA takedown requests — daringfireball.net/… related: […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 8 November 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Connecting COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps Across Europe is Starting to Work — www.macobserver.com/… Deadline is December 8 for App Store Privacy Labels — www.macobserver.com/… Apple will require privacy “nutrition labels” from developers starting December […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 25 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 19 Apps Update 🇺🇸 Apple updates COVID-19 app with new questions and recommendations — www.imore.com/… 🇺🇸 Washington D.C. Rolls Out App-Free COVID-19 Tracking System — www.macobserver.com/… Zoom Rolls Out End-to-End Encryption for Video […]
Continue readingSecurity 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/… […]
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