Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. It’s official: Elon musk now owns Twitter, and he’s already cleaned house and fired top executives — appleinsider.com/… Related Opinion: His letter to advertisers is surprisingly sensible — daringfireball.net/… 🇫🇷 Clearview AI image-scraping face […]
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Security Bits — 16 October 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Last time Bart & Allison waxed lyrical about the DART mission, but we didn’t know yet if it had worked, now we do, it did 😀 — www.nasa.gov/… The Matter home automation standard has […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 2 October 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇦 🇷🇺 To comply with international sanctions on Russia over its invasion and annexation of Ukraine, Apple have removed a major Russian app from VK from all app stores — appleinsider.com/… Deep Dive — […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 25 September 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 Google have gotten SEC approval to pilot their controversial political ad spam by-pass feature with a limited number of campaigns in this year’s US mid-term elections — appleinsider.com/… 🇺🇸 The recent revelations of […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 11 September 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Twitter begins testing long-awaited edit button — www.cultofmac.com/… Formal Confirmation of unconfirmed reports from The Intercept a few months ago: Facebook engineers have no idea what happens with user data — appleinsider.com/… Deep Dive(s) […]
Continue reading# Security Bits — 27 August 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 US offers reward “up to $10 million” for information about the Conti gang — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… (This is the gang behind the notorious hack of the Irish Health Service Executive during COVID) Pegasus […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 14 August 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 A graphic illustration of how real the danger of tech company subpoenas is in a post-Roe America: This Is the Data Facebook Gave Police to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion — www.vice.com/… (Facebook […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 3 August 2022
❗ Action Alerts Calls to action, if any stories in this section are relevant to you there is some action you should take. SAMBA have patched a critical bug in their open source implementation of Microsoft’s Active Directory, if you use SAMBA, patch ASAP! — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… The commonly used open source crypto library GnuTLS has […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 24 July 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇷🇺 Russia’s hostility towards western companies continues as it adds Apple to the list of companies it’s fining for not storing Russian citizens data in Russia (Twitch, Pinterest, Airbnb, UPS & Google had already […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 10 July 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇪🇺 The Digital Markets Act (DMA) & Digital Services Act (DSA) have both moved one step closer to going into effect, having been approved in the European Parliament. The final step is formal approval […]
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