Apple
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.