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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NC #821 Shure MV5C Mic, Overviewer, Security Bits
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, January 31, 2021, and this is show number 821. I’ve got a super full show for you this week, but it’s really only 3 subjects, maybe 4 if […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 28 January 2021
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. The SolarWinds attack Malwarebytes Reveals it Was Hacked by Nation-State Behind ‘SolarWinds’ — www.macobserver.com/… Did not use SolarWinds products Vector was their Office365 tenancy (Microsoft spotted suspicious activity on their account and contacted them) […]
Continue readingNC #817 Built-in Screen Capture, CanaKit Raspberry Pi, Pro Display XDR, Security Bits
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, January 3, 2021, and this is show number 817. With another year successfully buttoned up, we start out 2021 with what I think will be a great show. […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 3 Jan 2021
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. More Details Emerge on the Solar Winds Attack As expected, the private sector was targeted too: Big tech companies including Intel, Nvidia, and Cisco were all infected during the SolarWinds hack — www.theverge.com/… Microsoft Says […]
Continue readingNC #816 Geofency, iCatcher!, Dark Reader, Affinity for Cross Stitch, Security Bits on ODoH
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, December 27, 2020, and this is show number 816. I hope you all had a safe, if quiet holiday. Thanks to the kindness of the NosillaCastaways, I was […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 27 December 2020 – Oblivious DNS over HTTPS or ODoH
Deep Dive — Cloudflare & Apple add Privacy to Secure DNS with ODoH Cloudflare, Apple, & hosting company Fastly have collaborated to create a new secure and private DNS specification that extends DNS over HTTPS (DoH). They’ve both released the spec, and released sample implementations of the various components in Ruby and Go. The Problem […]
Continue readingNC #815 Night Before Christmas, Apple Fitness+, Security Bits on SolarWinds and Apple’s Tracking Transparency
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, December 20, 2020, and this is show number 815. mp3 download For the last month or so, Bart’s RSS feeds for Security Bits have been unusually light and […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 20 December 2020 – SolarWinds, Apple’s Tracking Transparency
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Listener Thomas Cooper Question — Is TikTok a National Security Threat? TL;DR — nope We got some listener feedback asking about the US’s proposed ban on TikTok on national security grounds. This is very […]
Continue readingNC #813 Family Sharing of In-app Purchases, CodeNewbie, Alt-Tags on Twitter, Feeder 4, Security Bits
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, December 6, 2020, and this is show number 813. Normally I like to write you epic tomes where I dig deep into some arcane subject or at least […]
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