Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Apple Intelligence: Apple Will “Share the Results of AI Tests” With Public and Govt — www.macobserver.com/… Related: Apple iOS 18.1 Beta previews Apple Intelligence for the first time — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… Related: 
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Security Bits – 21 July 2024
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 
Kaspersky officially announce they are leaving the US — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… Kaspersky offers free security software for six months in U.S. goodbye — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… Google are not the only company losing the battle against […]
Security Bits – 2024-07-07
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. The Snowflake supply-chain breach fallout continues with another big name: Neiman Marcus confirms data breach after Snowflake account hack — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… (biggest danger seems to be targeted phishing) 
Meta’s plan to hoover up […]
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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Deep Dive — You Probably Want to Avoid Microsoft Recall, at Least for Now! At their recent Build developers conference Microsoft announced a new line of ARM-based laptops with built-in AI chips branded as Copilot+ PCs, with one of the headline features being Recall. The idea is that Recall will constantly monitor everything you do […]
Continue readingSecurity 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 […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 12 May 2024
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Quick Digital Markets Act update: The first 3rd-party iOS app store in the EU has gone live – AltStore PAL by Riley Testut — rileytestut.com/… EU Labels iPadOS as a Gatekeeper and Orders […]
Security Bits — 28 April 2024
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Glen Fleishmann outlines some ways in which Google’s Find My Device network is actually a little more privacy-preserving than Apple’s Find My network (and one nasty sting in the tail that makes it a […]
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CCATP #792 – Bart Busschots on Rethinking Weather Apps for Privacy and Functionality
In this episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite, Bart Busschots joins us to talk about weather apps. He’s a serious weather nerd by necessity, living in Ireland and being an avid bike rider. As he walks through the apps he’ll explain which ones fall down on privacy, and which ones have good apps […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 14 April 2024
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. An excellent writeup detailing the fascinating story of the XZUtils compromise we discussed last time — arstechnica.com/… (Editorial by Bart: Definitely one of the nearest misses we’ve had in the supply chain for some […]
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