Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇦🇺 Apple is testing an enhancement to its child protection features in Australia – when Apple’s existing opt-in nudity detection AI feature flags an image as potentially problematic, a new option appears to allow […]
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I’ve Changed My Mind About Apple’s New Password App
With the advent of macOS Sequoia and iOS 18, Apple upgraded its method of saving user passwords from the arcane Keychain Access to a fledgling full-fledged password manager. Because Apple likes to name its products so they’re impossible to search online, the app is called Passwords. I am a huge proponent of password managers, with […]
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NC #1016 Audio Hijack Video for SVMUG, Voice Synthesis with Resemble AI and Play.ht, 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, October 27, 2024, and this is show number 1016. mp3 download Clockwise #577: Witches Are Doing it for Themselves I got to be on the Clockwise podcast again […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 27 October 2024
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. An example of a very advanced and powerful honeypot: Microsoft creates fake Azure tenants to pull phishers into honeypots — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… Apple have followed through on their promise to allow cybersecurity researchers to test […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 13 October 2024
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 More consequences for past misdeeds: T-Mobile pays $31.5 million FCC settlement over 4 data breaches — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… Marriott settles with FTC, to pay $52 million over data breaches — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… Two notable developments […]
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Strongbox Password Manager – by Kurt Liebezeit
Hi, this is Kurt Liebezeit, also known as PDX_Kurt, bringing you a review of the Strongbox password manager system from Phoebe Software at strongboxsafe.com. I kind of fell into using Strongbox through the back door, so to speak. For about a decade, I had been using a pair of open-source password database programs, KeePassXC on […]
Continue readingNC #1012 Presentify, Keycastr, 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, September 29, 2024, and this is show number 1012. mp3 download PBS 171: MVC in XKpasswd-js In Programming By Stealth this week, we had a very unusual lesson. […]
Continue readingSecurity 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 readingNC #1010 Bart’s Phone Camera Wishlist, Beyond the Post, Rusty Podcaster, Programming Philips Hue Part 3, 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, September 15, 2024, and this is show number 1010. mp3 download LTP 132: Phone Camera Wishlist – Let’s Talk Podcasts You know I’m a big fan of everything […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 15 September 2024
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Apple have decided to end their case against the NSO Group (authors of the infamous Pegasus spyware) because disclosure could do more harm to users than letting the NSO group off the hook — […]
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