CISA cyber security advisories – exploits, cisco devices, Firefox

F5 Releases Security Advisories Addressing Multiple Vulnerabilities | CISA Mozilla Releases Security Updates for Firefox and Firefox ESR | CISA CISA Adds Five Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog | CISA F5 is a company supplying infrastructure performance and security services to companies – so if you use them, get reading. …

Has Apple given us a false sense of security when it comes to their App Tracking Transparency

There was a lot of publicity – including the regular use in iPhone advertising – of Apple’s new stance on privacy. Apple has imposed new rules on vendors of iOS (and iPadOS) through its “walled garden” App Store that enhances our privacy. App Tracking Transparency (ATT) is a cornerstone of …

Apple AirTags – used for stalking

These little devices are really useful to the law abiding – then there are the criminals: Police Records Show Women Are Being Stalked With Apple AirTags Across the Country (vice.com) The report is from the US, but if it happens over there, then it is also happening here.

Even the world’s biggest companies get suckered by social engineering

Both Apple and Meta were the victims of social engineering scams that caused them to simply giveaway user personal information. I am not going to call this sophisticated – actually it was quite simple – the cyber criminals, studied how an Emergency Data Requests (EDR) operated and then spoofed that …