We’ve got your security action alerts, worthy warnings, notable news, interesting insights, and some nice palate cleansers all in this week’s Security Bits by @bart
https://www.podfeet.com/blog/2025/07/sb-2025-07-20/
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Security Bits — 20 July 2025 - Podfeet Podcasts
❗ Action Alerts Calls to action, if any stories in this section are relevant to you, there is some action you should take. Microsoft July 2025 Patch Tuesday fixes one zero-day, 137 flaws — www.bleepingcomputer.com/…, krebsonsecurity.com/… & isc.sans.edu/… Most important patches for typical NosillaCastaways are Office zero-click exploits (triggered by previewing a document) Most important […]
@bart brings us this week’s cyber security news — no deep dives but lots of patchy patchy patch patch.
https://www.podfeet.com/blog/2025/06/sb-2025-06-22/
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Security Bits — 22 June 2025 - Podfeet Podcasts
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Greyware spyware from Pegatron continues to be abused: Graphite spyware used in Apple iOS zero-click attacks on journalists — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… (This all happened a few months ago, and the zero-day was patched back in […]
Security Bits — 25 May 2025 - Podfeet Podcasts
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇪🇺 Following the near-miss with the US-funded critically important CVE database earlier this year (CISA nearly let funding lapse without notice, and even then only temporarily extended the existing funding rather than actually renewing […]
Security Bits — 11 May 2025 - Podfeet Podcasts
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. A great example of why it’s important to patch – this is one of the things the Apple updates we called out last time patched: Apple ‘AirBorne’ flaws can lead to zero-click AirPlay RCE […]
Are you curious about all you've heard that quantum computing is going to destroy encryption as we know it? In this week's Security Bits, @bart breaks down the difference between today's computers and quantum computers and then explains how we're ready for them when they become a reality.
https://www.podfeet.com/blog/2025/04/sb-2025-04-27/
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Security Bits — 27 April 2025 — Deep Dive into Quantum Computing - Podfeet Podcasts
Deep Dive — Where are we with Quantum Computing NosillaCastaway @milddemons asked the following in the Podfeet Slack: “I am wondering if you know and can tell us what the security community is up to in regards to quantum computing breaking the encryption that we have now. I just thought about this as Microsoft has a quantum computing […]
Security Bits — 24 November 2024 - Podfeet Podcasts
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 The scope of the Chinese State-sponsored hack of telcos expands: T-Mobile confirms it was hacked in recent wave of telecom breaches — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… A rare leak of what the GreyKey phone unlocking […]
T-Mobile & Marriott settle on data breaches for 10s of millions of $s, patch for DrayTek flaw affects 70,000 routers, Qualcomm firmware update for Android, Internet Archive hack, and more:
Security Bits by @bart — 13 October 2024
https://www.podfeet.com/blog/2024/10/sb-2024-10-13/
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Security Bits — 13 October 2024 - Podfeet Podcasts
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 […]
Security Bits — 15 September 2024 - Podfeet Podcasts
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 — […]
Security Bits – 21 July 2024 - Podfeet Podcasts
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 Kaspersky officially announce they are leaving the US — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… Kaspersky offers free security software for six months in U.S. goodbye — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… Google are not the only company losing the battle against […]
Security Bits – 2024-07-07 - Podfeet Podcasts
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. The Snowflake supply-chain breach fallout continues with another big name: Neiman Marcus confirms data breach after Snowflake account hack — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… (biggest danger seems to be targeted phishing) 🇧🇷 Meta’s plan to hoover up […]
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