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Security Bits — 16 February 2025

Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. DNS discussion update: as pointed out by Ferrers in the Podfeet Slack, Cloudflare’s free DNS service does offer an equivalent to Quad9’s malware-blocking DNS service — Details on their website 1.1.1.1 — unfiltered DNS […]

George from Tulsa on Old Macs

August 26, 2024
by podfeet

Hi! George from Tulsa here, responding to Allison’s request for content while she and Steve safari off to Africa. In June 2024 Mac security company Intego published a blog article “When does an old Mac become unsafe to use?” Intego’s answer, “… if your Mac cannot run the latest version of macOS, it won’t get […]

Security Bits — 9 July 2023

Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. We now have more details on how iOS 17’s new Check In safety feature will work: www.macobserver.com/… Six companies have confirmed to the EU Commission that they will fall under the Digital Markets […]

Security Bits — 16 April 2023

Deep Dive 1 — Opera’s ‘VPN’ is Useful but Poorly Named Opera made some news by expanding out their free in-browser security feature they call a VPN to iOS, this makes the feature truly cross-platform, covering Windows, Mac, Android, and now iOS. This news triggered me to look into the feature before linking to the […]

Security Bits – 25 January 2019

Followups Australia’s controversial anti-encryption law has come into effect — www.macobserver.com/… Sprint to Stop Selling Location Data to Third Parties After Motherboard Investigation — motherboard.vice.com/…

Security Bits – 24 November 2018

Notable Security Updates Adobe have issued an emergency patch for a critical bug in Flash — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… Patch Skype for Business now or risk DoS via emoji kittens! — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… Update now! Dangerous AMP for WordPress plugin fixed — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… Microsoft pulls Office patches that are causing application crashes. Office365 users don’t need to take […]

HashPhotos Tutorial on ScreenCasts Online

Back in June, I told you about an awesome app for iOS called HashPhotos. I like to think of HashPhotos as a better front-end GUI to your Apple Photos Library. My blog post was pretty in depth, but it turns out there’s a ton more cool stuff that it can do than I realized at […]

Security Bits – Spectre/Meltdown Update, Strava Heat Maps

Followup — Spectre & Meltdown News Intel asks customers to halt patching for chip bug, citing flaw — www.reuters.com/… New Windows patch disables Intel’s bad Spectre microcode fix — arstechnica.com/… macOS Sierra, OS X El Capitan Updates Patch Meltdown Flaw — www.intego.com/… Apple offers another Meltdown fix for Mac users… — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… Security Medium — […]