Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, November 17, 2024, and this is show number 1019. mp3 download Articles Tiny Mac Tips Part 9 of X – iOS as a Scanner for macOS, QuickLook, Dock […]
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CCATP #803 – Adam Engst on Invasive Location Tracking and Tips On How to Manage
In this episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Adam Engst and I discussed his October 24th article entitled Exposé Reveals Ongoing Smartphone Location Tracking Threats. He explained how much easier it is now for your precise location to be determined because of your online activity, in spite of the safeguards Apple has instituted in […]
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Security Bits – 29 September 2024
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Consequences arrive for past failure: 🇺🇸 AT&T pays $13 million FCC settlement over 2023 data breach — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… 🇪🇺 Meta fined €91M by the Irish Data Protection Commissioners for storing over 600 million passwords […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 25 August 2024
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. For those interested in even more technical details: CrowdStrike Reveals Root Cause of Global System Outages — thehackernews.com/… Steve Gibson has released a free tool to check your PC’s Secure Boot setup by verifying […]
Continue readingDumb Question Corner – VPN vs. Private Relay
Listener Lynda asks (generalised a little): I’m sitting in a hotel and my VPN appears to be working fine on the Hotel wifi. I am, tho, getting notices from Private Relay, saying that it is not working due to a software conflict. Which of these would be more secure in this kind of setting? The […]
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CCATP #792 – Bart Busschots on Rethinking Weather Apps for Privacy and Functionality
In this episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite, Bart Busschots joins us to talk about weather apps. He’s a serious weather nerd by necessity, living in Ireland and being an avid bike rider. As he walks through the apps he’ll explain which ones fall down on privacy, and which ones have good apps […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 3 March 2024
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Another defeat for the NSO group: 🇺🇸 U.S. Court Orders NSO Group to Hand Over Pegasus Spyware Code to WhatsApp — thehackernews.com/… 🇺🇸 Microsoft have finally followed through on their promise to the US […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 18 February 2024
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. It’s not just in Google Search Results that malicious ads are getting through ATM: Facebook ads push new Ov3r_Stealer password-stealing malware — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… (The lure is different though, job ads with malicious PDF downloads, […]
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 readingCCATP #747 – Dan Moren on Baby Tech
This week our guest is Dan Moren (https://dmoren.com/). Dan is the author of the Galactic Cold War series of sci-fi espionage capers, a former senior editor at Macworld, a writer for Six Colors and TidBITS amongst other publications, and a prolific podcaster as co-host of Clockwise and The Rebound. But I did not have him […]
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