Deep Dive — Have-I-Been-Pwnd Domain Search Revamped This is very much glass-half-empty-glass-half-full news. On the one hand, domain searches and domain monitoring have gotten way easier (you had to re-validate your domain for each search before), on the other hand, it’s now a subscription service, but with a generous free tier. What this feature has […]
Continue readingCategory: Security Bits
Security 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 […]
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 […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 28 May 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 know that Pegasus was used in the war over the Nagorno-Karabakh region in Azerbaijan (an un-recognized independent republic with close ties to Armenia) from 2020 to 2022, with the Armenian foreign minister’s […]
Continue reading
Security Bits — 14 May 2023
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Apple issues Rapid Security Response update for iOS 16.4.1, macOS 13.3.1 — appleinsider.com/… Related: A nice link to bookmark and send to friends and family who ask for more info: What Are Rapid Security […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 30 April 2023
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 US Facebook users can now claim their share of the Cambridge Analytica settlement — appleinsider.com/… 🇬🇧 The battle against the UK’s daft plan to ban End-to-End Encryption goes on, with WhatsApp taking the […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 16 April 2023
Deep Dive 1 — Opera’s ‘VPN’ is Useful but Poorly Named Opera made some news by expanding out their free in-browser security feature they call a VPN to iOS, this makes the feature truly cross-platform, covering Windows, Mac, Android, and now iOS. This news triggered me to look into the feature before linking to the […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 2 April 2023
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇮🇹 🇱🇺 🇳🇱 🇵🇹 Apple expands Emergency SOS via satellite to six more countries — appleinsider.com/… (Austria, Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands & Portugal) Deep Dive — Two aCropalypses TL;DR — the […]
Continue reading