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 […]
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Security Bits — 29 October 2023
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Passkeys continue to roll out: Google Adopts Passkeys as Default Sign-in Method for All Users — thehackernews.com/… Amazon adds passkey support as new passwordless login option — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… Deep Dive 1 — iLeakage TL;DR […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 3 September 2023
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. An excellent overview of the NightOwl saga we mentioned last time: Did the NightOwl app really join Macs to a botnet army? — www.intego.com/… A fresh campaign has been launched to try pressure Apple […]
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How to Have a Long (but Numeric) Passcode on iPhone/iPad
There has been a lot of (justified) kerfuffle about a recent article by Joanna Stern in the Wall Street Journal regarding a relatively easy method for someone to “shoulder surf” to see your four-digit passcode and from there be able to steal your entire Apple ID. Android users have the same problem — with the […]
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Security Bits — 5 Feb 2023
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Anker admits that Eufy cameras were never encrypted — appleinsider.com/… Apple have released their support for hardware Fido tokens for iCloud 2FA — sixcolors.com/… Editorial by Bart: remember that this feature comes with a […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 3 April 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 
More fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: Courts in Russia Declare Meta an “Extremist Organization,” Ban App — www.macobserver.com/… (WhatsApp) Google News appears to have been blocked in Russia — […]
Security Bits — 30 May 2021
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 
Hot on the heels of the Colonial Pipeline hack, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has published cybersecurity rules for pipeline operators — www.macobserver.com/… Vizio’s questionable privacy stance has come up a […]
Security Bits — 2 May 2021
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Apple are letting Parler back into the iOS AppStore, they have apparently sufficiently reformed their moderation practices — www.imore.com/… SolarWinds are changing their name to N-able! — www.n-able.com/… Deep Dive(s) 
Action Alerts Calls […]