Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇨🇳 More details continue to emerge of just how deeply the Chinese government infiltrated the West’s telecommunications networks – it’s not just a few US carriers, it’s carriers in “dozens of countries”, and even […]
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Security Bits — 24 November 2024
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 The scope of the Chinese State-sponsored hack of telcos expands: T-Mobile confirms it was hacked in recent wave of telecom breaches — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… A rare leak of what the GreyKey phone unlocking […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 10 November 2024
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇦🇺 Apple is testing an enhancement to its child protection features in Australia – when Apple’s existing opt-in nudity detection AI feature flags an image as potentially problematic, a new option appears to allow […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 27 October 2024
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 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 […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 13 October 2024
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 More consequences for past misdeeds: T-Mobile pays $31.5 million FCC settlement over 4 data breaches — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… Marriott settles with FTC, to pay $52 million over data breaches — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… Two notable developments […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits – 29 September 2024
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Consequences arrive for past failure: 🇺🇸 AT&T pays $13 million FCC settlement over 2023 data breach — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… 🇪🇺 Meta fined €91M by the Irish Data Protection Commissioners for storing over 600 million passwords […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 15 September 2024
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Apple have decided to end their case against the NSO Group (authors of the infamous Pegasus spyware) because disclosure could do more harm to users than letting the NSO group off the hook — […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 25 August 2024
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. For those interested in even more technical details: CrowdStrike Reveals Root Cause of Global System Outages — thehackernews.com/… Steve Gibson has released a free tool to check your PC’s Secure Boot setup by verifying […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits – 04 August 2024
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: 🇪🇺 🇨🇳 Apple […]
Continue readingSecurity 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 […]
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