Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. In the previous instalment we joined in the mockery of a Chinese railroad company that relied on Flash for their operations. Listener Tom Merit got in touch with a follow-up article which casts some […]
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Security Bits – 14 December 2018
Followup Bloomberg’s controversial The Big Hack story SuperMicro released the results of an independent audit which found no evidence of hardware or software tampering on its motherboards — www.reuters.com/… & arstechnica.com/… The Marriott Breach Marriott Data Breach Is Traced to Chinese Hackers as U.S. Readies Crackdown on Beijing — www.nytimes.com/… An interesting related opinion piece […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits – 02 November 2018
Followups Apple CEO Tim Cook Is Calling For Bloomberg To Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story — www.buzzfeednews.com/… 🇬🇧 Facebook fined £500K for Cambridge Analytica saga — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… Mirai Co-Author Gets 6 Months Confinement, $8.6M in Fines for Rutgers Attacks — krebsonsecurity.com/…
Continue readingSecurity Bits – Google Plus Data Breach, SSH Vulnerability, WhatsApp and D-Link Vulnerabilities, Apple Privacy Portal
Followup The Facebook hack: Facebook October 2018 security breach: Everything you need to know — www.imore.com/… Facebook opens up about data breach details — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/…
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NC #700 iPhone X vs XS Cameras, Mark Up Emails Without Third Party App, Security Bits
We put on our party hats (literally) to celebrate 700 episodes of the NosillaCast. Then I brag about how may latest video tutorial on iThoughts made it into ScreenCasts Online Magazine. I try to convince the audience that the iPhone XS is a logical purchase if you already have an iPhone X just on the […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits – Facebook Token Hack, Bloomberg Amazon & Apple Servers & China, Facebook Uses 2FA Numbers for Advertising
Security Bits – 5 October 2018 Followups 🇺🇸 The CA IoT security law discussed previously has been signed into law — www.theverge.com/… Google have announced plans to further limit what browser plugins can do in an attempt to crack down on the explosion in plugin-based malware we talked about last time — arstechnica.com/… & nakedsecurity.sophos.com/…
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