Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. An interim report on the EU’s investigation of the NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware reveals that the company has admitted to selling its product in at least five EU countries (the company are not sure […]
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Security Bits with Bart Busschots — 12 June 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 An interesting (and slightly depressing) look at the DOJ’s change in official policy around the CFAA from the security researcher’s POV: What Counts as “Good Faith Security Research?” — krebsonsecurity.com/… Social Media Developments […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 29 May 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. The existing Yorkie-Pro GPS tracker finder from Berkeley Varitronics Systems (BVS) which is already used by law enforcement has received a free firmware update to allow it find AirTags too — www.macobserver.com/… 🇺🇸 The […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 15 May 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇪🇺 The enforcement of the EU’s Digital Markets Act (the first of the two big bills to be announced) has been delayed until 2023 — www.macobserver.com/… (We did a deep-dive on it in early […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 1 May 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇪🇸 Spain implicated in Pegasus spyware attack on Catalan politicians — www.imore.com/… Social Media Updates: Instagram will now rank based on originality & improve product and people tagging — www.imore.com/… You Can Now Ask […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 17 April 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 Invasion of Ukraine continues to affect IT: 🇷🇺 Twitter have made two policy changes: (www.imore.com/…) In line with international law, government accounts won’t be allowed to post images of POWs Twitter’s […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 3 April 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 More fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: 🇷🇺 Courts in Russia Declare Meta an “Extremist Organization,” Ban App — www.macobserver.com/… (WhatsApp) 🇷🇺 Google News appears to have been blocked in Russia — […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 20 March 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Continuing cyber-fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: Chinese-Owned TikTok Limits Services in Russia to protect Employees, Users Against Fake News Law — www.macobserver.com/… Internet Backbone Giant Lumen Shuns .R — krebsonsecurity.com/… Korean company LG […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits – 06 March 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. A little sting in the tail of that disgraceful threat by the Missouri Governor to prosecute a journalist for noticing personal data leaked in HTML source code of a government site – it was […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 20 Feb 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 An update on a story Allison referenced last time: Missouri governor rebuffed: Journalist won’t be prosecuted for viewing HTML — arstechnica.com/… 🇮🇱 The NSO Group/Pegasus Saga: The Israeli government has opened an investigation […]
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