Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. LastPass are finally forcing users to strengthen their master passwords — krebsonsecurity.com/… (Note that this provides zero protection to what ever was in user’s vaults when the big breach happened last year!) Passkeys continue […]
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Security Bits — 17 September 2023
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. UK backs down from nonsensical law after threats from Apple, WhatsApp — appleinsider.com/… (in a dishonest way, but better than nothing) Deep Dive — LastPass Vaults are Being Cracked (Follow the Money!) It was […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 3 September 2023
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. An excellent overview of the NightOwl saga we mentioned last time: Did the NightOwl app really join Macs to a botnet army? — www.intego.com/… A fresh campaign has been launched to try pressure Apple […]
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Bicycling with Wahoo Tickr Fit Heart Rate Monitor
The Problem to be Solved In theory, when everything is working well, when you use the Apple Watch to track a workout it will take regular heart rate readings, display them, and use them to calculate your calorie burn accurately. But to balance battery life and accuracy, the frequency of the checks is tuned for […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 5 August 2023
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Another twist in the NSO Group/Pegasus story: FBI admits it accidentally used NSO Group tools — appleinsider.com/… (The tool was Landmark not Pegasus, but it was after the US government’s import ban on NSO […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 30 July 2023
Deep Dive 1 — The Updated EU ⬌ US Data Sharing Framework Since the European Court of Justice struck down the Privacy Shield framework that large US-based tech companies relied on to easily transfer data on European citizens to the US in 2020, quiet negotiations have been ongoing to try replace it with an updated […]
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More Cool Third-Party Apple Watch Bands – by Bart Busschots
SwitchEasy – A Better Alternative to Apple’s Pride Solo Loop Candy Braided Nylon Apple Watch Loop From SwitchEasy I always like the braided candy look of Apple’s solo loop bands, and I bought the Pride edition a few years ago, but despite it looking amazing, I almost never wear it 🙁 I do a lot […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 9 July 2023
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. We now have more details on how iOS 17’s new Check In safety feature will work: www.macobserver.com/… 🇪🇺 Six companies have confirmed to the EU Commission that they will fall under the Digital Markets […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 25 June 2023
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Thanks to the iOS 17 & macOS Sonoma Betas we now know more about how password sharing in iCloud Keychain will work — www.macobserver.com/… (iOS) & appleinsider.com/… (macOS) Everyone needs to have an iCloud […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 11 June 2023
Deep Dive — Security & Privacy Highlights from WWDC As with most things WWDC, this is a glimpse of the future rather than new tools we get to use today, but I think it’s still worth taking a little time to look at some of the security and privacy enhancements Apple announced. Apple’s current Communications […]
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