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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Security Bits — 12 May 2024
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇪🇺 Quick Digital Markets Act update: The first 3rd-party iOS app store in the EU has gone live – AltStore PAL by Riley Testut — rileytestut.com/… EU Labels iPadOS as a Gatekeeper and Orders […]
Continue readingMore TagSecurity Bits — 3 January 2024 (Bart & Jill from the North Woods)
Deep Dive — Operation Triangulation TL;DR — Kaspersky labs have discovered that they, and Russian government officials, were targeted by very advanced iOS malware that completely took over iOS devices for the last 4 years. Apple have patched all the exploited vulnerabilities, regular users were not targeted, and Kaspersky say there is not enough evidence […]
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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 […]
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Tailscale is Magic
I’d like to tell you about a magical application/service that solves a problem most of us have. I’m using it to solve a problem that is perhaps off of the beaten path but still within the realm of a NosillaCastaway. The mainstream problem to be solved is that you’re away from home and you want […]
Continue readingMore TagSecurity Bits — 16 October 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Last time Bart & Allison waxed lyrical about the DART mission, but we didn’t know yet if it had worked, now we do, it did 😀 — www.nasa.gov/… The Matter home automation standard has […]
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Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 US offers reward “up to $10 million” for information about the Conti gang — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… (This is the gang behind the notorious hack of the Irish Health Service Executive during COVID) Pegasus […]
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Tech on Travel on a Ship in Iceland
Before we leave on a vacation, we pack way more tech than normal people, but probably about average for NosillaCastaways. Of course, we both brought our iPhones, and I brought my iPad Pro. But we both need laptops on our vacations. Yes, need not want. Laptops Steve and I both bought M1 14” MacBooks Pro […]
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CCATP #732 – Ask Me Anything (About Security) with Bart Busschots
CCATP #732 for June 11, 2022, and I’m your host, Allison Sheridan. This week our guest is Bart Busschots. This week we’re going to do something a little different; we’re doing an “Ask Me Anything (About Security)”. I sent out the request for questions to our Slack community (https://podfeet.com/slack), to Twitter, to a few user […]
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NC #891 Questions for Bart AMA on Security, PIA Update, $20 MagSafe Case and Wallet, Notifications Madness, MacDown Markdown Editor
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, June 5, 2022, and this is show number 891. Remember if you’re planning on watching the WWDC Keynote, all the cool kids will be hanging out in the […]
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