Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 
The UK’s secret campaign to compel Apple to break its iCloud Advanced Data Protection feature is reportedly continuing apace (still without official confirmation), with a hearing having apparently taken place in a […]
Category: Security Bits
Security Bits — 16 March 2025
Security Bits — 2 March 2025
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Yet another reminder that developers are in the attacker’s sights: VSCode extensions with 9 million installs pulled over security risks — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… Microsoft’s prompt and very effective response to proactively disabled the plugin in […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 16 February 2025
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. DNS discussion update: as pointed out by Ferrers in the Podfeet Slack, Cloudflare’s free DNS service does offer an equivalent to Quad9’s malware-blocking DNS service — Details on their website 1.1.1.1 — unfiltered DNS […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 2 February 2025
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Updated Advice from Bart: back in 2019 I recommended the anti-malware not-for-profit DNS provider QuadNine (9.9.9.9) on the NosillaCast, I had been using it on my router since then, but not anymore, their service […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 19 January 2025
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Following on from Apple’s choice to settle a US class action suit over privacy breaches caused by accidental Siri activations, Apple released a press release confirming my interpretation of the case, and verifying that […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 3 January 2025
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. The recently disclosed massive hack of western telecommunications firms that lead the US FBI & CISA to issue advice to switch to E2EE VoIP and messaging apps like Signal over SMS & phone […]
Security Bits — 21 December 2024
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Following the FBI earlier in the month, and following the revelation that 8 major US telcos were compromised by the Chinese government, the US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has joined the […]
Security Bits — 8 December 2024
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 […]
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 […]
Security 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 […]