Patches, Data Breaches, and Too Many Messaging Protocols
Episode 339 · April 11th, 2024 · 29 mins 56 secs
About this Episode
Both Apple and Microsoft have patched a lot of security vulnerabilities in updates to their operating systems. A new scam uses AI to put the squeeze on victims. Info from a years-old AT&T data breach has been made public and data from 10s of millions of users has been exposed. And Apple has said that the RCS messaging protocol is coming to its operating systems later this year. Just how many messaging protocols is too many?
Show Notes:
- From the Department of Spending Tim Cook’s Money: Online Photo Storage Is Surely Expensive to Offer, but Apple Should Offer More
- Behind the scenes at Scary Fast: Apple’s keynote event shot on iPhone and edited on Mac
- Microsoft’s biggest Patch Tuesday in history: 147 vulnerabilities, 2 actively exploited
- A ‘Law Firm’ of AI Generated Lawyers Is Sending Fake Threats as an SEO Scam
- Google Chrome Adds V8 Sandbox - A New Defense Against Browser Attacks
- AT&T data breach exposes 70 million records; here’s how to protect yourself
- Sunbird, the security nightmare that tried to bring iMessage to Android, is returning
- Beeper was just acquired by Automattic, which has big plans for the future of messaging
- Beeper & Texts - Matt Mullenweg’s blog
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