Followups The Zoom webcam/webserver issue We now have confirmation that the vulnerability was also present in the RingCentral and Zhumu apps — www.imore.com/… Apple have rolled out an additional automatic security update to address the issues with these apps — www.macobserver.com/… Related Opinion: John Gruber addresses the question Isn’t [Apple’s response] “nonconsensual technology” too? in […]
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Security Bits – 14 July 2019
Security Medium 0 (more of a Followup) — 3rd-party Parental Control Apps Return to iOS Editorial by Bart: I’ve seen some very lazy reporting on this story, and I think the context and nuance are important, hence giving this apparently simple story the ‘Security Medium’ treatment. To understand what happened this week, it’s important to […]
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Security Bits – 3 May 2019
Followups Marcus Hutchins, the young security researcher who shot to fame by killing the WannaCry malware and then to infamy when he was arrested and charged with cyber crimes while traveling to the US to present at a security conference, has pleaded guilty to writing and selling banking malware. The offences pre-date his work as […]
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Followups 🇦🇺 Australia’s controversial anti-encryption law has been referred for independent review to check whether it adequately safeguards citizens rights — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… 🇪🇺 The EU Copyright Directive passed the EU parliament with the two controversial articles intact (the so-called link tax and upload filter) — tidbits.com/… Security Medium 1 — Android Security at Age 10 […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits – 23 March 2019
Followups The Reply All podcast released an episode about the Momo panic mentioned on the previous Security Bits — overcast.fm/… Security Medium — Facebook Accidentally Store Passwords in Plain Text Since 2012 Brian Krebs broke this story, and sourced it from “a senior Facebook employee who is familiar with the investigation and who spoke on […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits – 8 March 2019
Followups The on-going Spectre/Meltdown saga Google: Software is never going to be able to fix Spectre-type bugs — arstechnica.com 🇦🇺 Australia’s controversial anti-encryption law: Mozilla fears encryption law could turn its employees into insider threats — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… FastMail Challenges Australia Encryption Law — www.macobserver.com/… Grey-hat iPhone hackers Cellebrite are back in the news as older […]
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CCATP #579 – Shai Yammanee on Pulling Back from Social Media
This week we have recurring guest Shai Yammanee back, but this time not to talk about photography, videography or performing as he has in the past. Shai recently decided to remove Facebook from his phone (he still accesses it from his computer) and I wanted to have him on to find out why and also […]
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 #701 Two Troys and Backblaze, Cord Cutting Solutions, Fat Lady Sings for Google Plus
In this week’s show we’ll start off with a little more fun about the 700th show last week. Then I’ll tell you a tale of two Troys, and how a problem with Backblaze uncovered a lost recording for the NosillaCast. Then I’ll actually let you hear the lost recording. After that we’ll talk about the […]
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