Felix Krause, a privacy consultant and one time Google engineer has an article examining how Meta tracks users when they follow links from Meta websites using the iOS apps: iOS Privacy: Instagram and Facebook can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser · Felix Krause (krausefx.com) …
Security patch round-up
Wired UK has an excellent article rounding-up the security updates across a range of products – our support team found it really useful – you might too. Apple Just Patched 39 iPhone Security Bugs—Update iOS ASAP | WIRED UK
Was Apple networking diverted through Russia?
Russia’s Rostelecom appears to have tried to route some of Apple’s network, via its servers. It did not go on for long as Apple engineers intervened. If you want to know how some users across the internet trying to connect to Apple services could have been directed to Rostelecom servers, …
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Read about your privacy…
Before we start: At Smart Thinking and Octagon Technology we think protecting children and vulnerable people from threat actors on the internet is extremely important – but the action taken need to be technically and securely effective and not impact the privacy of law abiding citizens. Now onto the post… …
US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency advisories on security updates – Chrome, Oracle, Drupal, Apple, Cisco and Atlassian
CISA has issued advisories on the following: Google Releases Security Updates for Chrome | CISA Drupal Releases Security Update | CISA Oracle Releases July 2022 Critical Patch Update | CISA Apple Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products | CISA – SANS had a good round-up of these updates here. Cisco …
