Apple
October 2025
October 2025
Vol. 8, Iss. 40
Robin’s Newsletter #381
Medusa's mistaken cyber correspondent. Home Office submits new TCN tagreting British Apple customers. US Government shutdown cyber impact.
August 2025
August 2025
Vol. 8, Iss. 34
Robin’s Newsletter #375
US intel chief says UK walking back E2EE backdoor (for US citizens?) Interpol arrests 1,200 in African cybercrime crackdown. Accenture to acquire CyberCX.
July 2025
July 2025
Vol. 8, Iss. 30
Robin’s Newsletter #371
SharePoint shells for China. Clorox's $380M help desk lawsuit. And massive surges in UK VPN signups following Online Safety Act checks come into effect.
June 2025
June 2025
Vol. 8, Iss. 24
Robin’s Newsletter #365
Whole Foods supplier disruption. Google outage caused by poor error handling. DarkGaboon ransoming Russian companies. US ATC runs on Win95.
April 2025
April 2025
Vol. 8, Iss. 17
Robin’s Newsletter #358
M&S Cyber incident. Lots of data from FBI, Verizon, IBM, Mandient. Calls for greater harmonisation of cyber rules.
Vol. 8, Iss. 15
Robin’s Newsletter #356
Black Basta ransomware group chat logs leaked. Attackers accessed 150,000 emails at US Treasury bureau. Yes, Oracle was breached.
March 2025
March 2025
Vol. 8, Iss. 11
Robin’s Newsletter #352
Apple/UK gov hearing held in private. Garantex founder arrested on holiday in India. American fraud losses up 25%.
Vol. 8, Iss. 10
Robin’s Newsletter #351
Silk Typhoon shift focus to tech supply chains. Apple launches legal challenge over UK backdoor request. Scammers sending fake, physical ransom notes.
Vol. 8, Iss. 9
Robin’s Newsletter #350
FBI points finger at North Korea for $1.5B crypto-heist. US deprioritises Russia cyber threat. 7,000 people freed from scam centres in Myanmar.
February 2025
February 2025
Vol. 8, Iss. 8
Robin’s Newsletter #349
Apple disables ADP in UK amidst E2EE fight with UK gov. Trump seeks control of independent agencies. $1.4B stolen from Bybit cryptocurrency exchange.
Vol. 8, Iss. 7
Robin’s Newsletter #348
DOGE and the 'most consequential' breach in history. Salt Typhoon seen in five more telcos. AI Summaries are mostly inaccurate.
Vol. 8, Iss. 6
Robin’s Newsletter #347
UK demands Apple break iCloud encryption. Hurricane-style categorisation of cyber incidents. Meta torrented pirated books to train AI models.
December 2024
December 2024
Vol. 7, Iss. 50
Robin’s Newsletter #339
File transfer systems attacked. FCC funding to replace Chiense telco equipment. Romania nnuls election results over suspected interference.
December 2023
December 2023
Vol. 6, Iss. 53
Robin’s Newsletter #289
Chinese group still targeting Barracuda ESGs. Kaspersky details on 'Trangulation' operation. A look back on 2023.
Vol. 6, Iss. 50
Robin’s Newsletter #286
23andMe data breach impacts grow. Pushing surveillance. Five Eyes detail Russian political meddling.
November 2023
November 2023
Vol. 6, Iss. 45
Robin’s Newsletter #281
SEC charges SolarWinds CISO. Countries vow not to pay ransomware demands. Major updates to CVSS.
July 2023
July 2023
Vol. 6, Iss. 27
Robin’s Newsletter #263
SEC issues noticed to SolarWinds CFO, CISO. Apple opposed Online Safety Bill. US Supreme Court rejects cyberstalking case.
June 2023
June 2023
Vol. 6, Iss. 23
Robin’s Newsletter #259
Kaspersky says it was compromised using zero-click iMessage exploit. Russia blames the NSA. Amazon settles Ring2 'lax privacy' case.
December 2022
December 2022
Vol. 5, Iss. 50
Robin’s Newsletter #234
Apple offers encrypted iCloud backups. Medibank takes ysstems offline for security improvements. Attack on NZ MSP affects Justice and health bodies.
August 2022
August 2022
Vol. 5, Iss. 34
Robin’s Newsletter #218
Cl0p ransomware gang mistakes attack on South Staffs Water for Thames Water. DigitalOcean caught up in latest Mailchimp breach. Apple security vulnerabilities.
July 2022
July 2022
Vol. 5, Iss. 28
Robin’s Newsletter #212
Apple's extreme 'Lockdown Mode' to protect against NSO Group. Apparent breach of 1 billion Chinese citizens data. Bad week for NPM ecosystem.
September 2021
September 2021
Vol. 4, Iss. 36
Robin’s Newsletter #168
Focus on proxyware, patch your confluence servers, the normalisation of surveillance, and interview with a ransomware negotiator.
August 2021
August 2021
Vol. 4, Iss. 33
Robin’s Newsletter #165
Apple's damage-control on CSAM. Belarus' state security doxxing. Code poisoning ML models.
Vol. 4, Iss. 32
Robin’s Newsletter #164
Apple's plans to have iPhone continuously scan for child sexual abuse material are ripe for abuse.
June 2021
June 2021
WWDC21: Death. Taxes. Privacy. Tech. Law. And Economics.
Making a Twitter thread from earlier in the week a little easier to digest. There are some interesting new privacy features from Apple at their World Wide Developers Conference this week: Mail Privacy Private Relay Hide My Email On-device Siri App Privacy Report I’ve seen lots written on 1-3, less on the latter, plus the potential hidden amongst the announcements. First up, the solutions here aren’t new tech: Voice Control has been in iPhone for alarms, music, etc for… 7(?
Vol. 4, Iss. 24
Robin’s Newsletter #156
EA games source code stolen. Apple's news privacy and security features. The FBI ran An0m encrypted comms app. Ransomware thinking.
May 2021
May 2021
Vol. 4, Iss. 21
Robin’s Newsletter #153
Lots of ransomware: Ireland's HSE will not pay. Colonial coughed up $4.4M'. But there are Technology Detection Dogs. And they're very good dogs!
April 2021
April 2021
Vol. 4, Iss. 15
Robin’s Newsletter #147
Facebook's *ahem* 'data scraping' incident sets the stage for debate on responsible design and engineering. AWS bomb threat. Censorship by QoS. TUI's algorithm gender bias led to 'serious incident' calculating takeoff loads.
March 2021
March 2021
Vol. 4, Iss. 11
Robin’s Newsletter #143
Criminals jump on Hafnium/ProxyLogon. Hacktivists breach Verkada's 150K facial recognition cams. Apple's IP theft lawsuit. Google's Spectre exploit.
December 2020
December 2020
Vol. 3, Iss. 49
Robin’s Newsletter #129
TrickBot is recovering from CyberCom, Microsoft takedowns, gains UEFI/BIOS capabilities. 'Cold chain' of COVID-19 vaccine targeted. Zero-click exploit in Apple iPhone.
November 2020
November 2020
Vol. 3, Iss. 46
Robin’s Newsletter #126
No, Apple aren't logging every app you run, but they are brining privacy nutrition labels to AppStore. Tim Berners-Lee's Inrupt launches Solid server. Ticketmaster to appeal £1.25M data breach penalty.
April 2020
April 2020
Vol. 3, Iss. 17
Robins Newsletter #97
Zero-click vulnerability in Apple's Mail app, surveillance and tracking COVID-19, UK MoD relaxes security requirements.