An 11 year-old wreaks havoc...
A game that is not worth playing...
And putting a blind guy behind the wheel…
Voices of Checklists passed tell us about their favorite hacker movies, including Hackers, WarGames, Sneakers, and Superman III. What did they get right? What did they get wrong? And what can we learn from them? Snuggle up for The Hacky Holidays Special - brought to you by SecureMac.
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The holidays! A time of love, warmth, and good cheer. Also, prime time for scammers. We’ll look at some delivery scams and how to avoid them with SecureMac’s Nick Leon. Plus - news of the COVID-19 vaccines brings - you guessed it - more scams. Avoiding a Scammy New Year on Checklist 211, brought to you by SecureMac.
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With time ticking down, you may be ordering IoT things for holiday gifts. Be sure what you’re buying is safe! We’ve got a Checklist for that. Plus - 33 vulnerabilities pose a threat to “millions” of IoT devices. We’ll talk AMNESIA: 33 on Checklist 210, brought to you by SecureMac.
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You trust Apple. You trust the firewall you’ve set up on your Mac. But - do you trust Apple to decide what your firewall should stop and what it shouldn’t? Patrick Wardle joins us to discuss the issue on Checklist 209 - brought to you by SecureMac.
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Heading into Black Friday and Cyber Monday, we’ve got two checklists on this week’s Checklist - The first is sort of a basic guide to online shopping, while the second covers how to safely use browser extensions for shopping securely.
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macOS Big Sur has arrived. Or, we’ve gotten to Big Sur. Whatever the case, there’s a host of new privacy and security features in the Mac’s latest operating system. We’re talking over some of them with SecureMac’s Nick Leon on Checklist 207.
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Some say Apple is building a search engine. Others say Apple’s strengthening search in Siri. Whatever it’s doing, Apple is up to something in search that could have privacy implications. We’re talking over the possibilities with SecureMac’s Nick Leon on Checklist 206.
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US officials say there are credible threats of ransomeware attacks aimed at hospitals, clinics, and other medical facilities across the country. Plus - It’s too late to mail in your mail-in ballot for next Tuesday’s general election. We’ll hear what experts say you should do if you failed to get yours in the mail.
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Someone is trying to undermine this year’s election and someone is trying to steal your money. The good news: There are steps you can take to fight both voter intimidation and election-centered phishing attempts. We’ll tackle those topics on episode 204 of The Checklist brought to you by SecureMac.
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Apple news sites were rife this week with news of an unpatchable vulnerability in the Cupertino-company’s T2 security processor. Not great, but probably not the “sky is falling” moment headlines would have us believe. Security researcher Patrick Wardle joins us to explain
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The pumpkin patch! The fall leaves! They can only mean one thing! It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month! On Checklist 201:
- Avoiding COVID related scams
- Staying safe while working from home
- How to spot and avoid smishing attempts
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200 and counting - this is The Checklist, brought to you by SecureMac.
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With iOS 14 out for less than 24-hours, now is an excellent time to look at some of its privacy improvements. Nick Leon joins us to address those on Checklist No. 199.
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Did you know that some podcasts actually track their listeners? “Today in iOS” host Rob Walch might be okay with that - IF listeners could opt-in or opt-out. Rob joins us today to talk about how the tracking occurs and about a new tool on the way to fight it.
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This week, we’re joined by Dominique West, senior cloud security consultant and host of the “Security in Color” podcast. She’ll tell us how and why security became her calling and how she’s giving back to the community. Plus - an actual checklist for The Checklist: Common Misconceptions in Cloud Adoption Security. All of that and more on Checklist No.197
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Security pro Patrick Wardle is writing a book, and he may just want your help. We’ll cover some Mac malware basics, talk about the book he’s writing, and how the security and Mac communities can help on episode 196 of The Checklist, brought to you by SecureMac.
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The 2020 U.S. election is under attack. Who’s doing it? Why? How? And what can we do stop it? SecureMac’s Nick Leon joins us to talk it over on Checklist No. 195
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Big accounts have been hijacked as part of a bitcoin scam. You may think we’re doing the Twitter story again, but this is not that. Something similar has happened on YouTube. iMore writer Stephen Warwick joins us to share the story - plus a look at how it might have happened, and how it might have been avoided.
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Taking a week-long summer break, we didn't want to leave the feed empty. So we bring you a WWDC outtake - an off the cuff, practically off-mic discussion of WWDCs past as well as the roles Apple execs play.
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The biggest news to come out of WWDC20 was Apple’s plan to move the Mac from Intel processors to a self-designed solution called Apple Silicon. Today - we’ll look at some differences between the two architectures, what the move will mean for people outside of Apple, and some of the security implications with SecureMac’s Nick Leon.
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A week behind us, the great Twitter hack is still unfolding. We’ll look at what we think we know so far and why the hack itself matters on this edition of The Checklist, brought to you by SecureMac.
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TikTok - harmless fun? Or existential threat to the United States? The answer you get depends on who you ask. We’re asking security pro Patrick Wardle on this edition of The Checklist, brought to you by SecureMac.
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And follow his work: Objective-see.com
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This week, we dive a bit deeper into some WWDC20 announcements with developer Brett Terpstra. Topics include:
- The sea of notifications coming in iOS 14
- All of the pasteboard/clipboard copying
- Taking FaceID and TouchID on Safari
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In the movies, bad guys are often taken down by a tech vulnerability. This week, we revisit our look at how best practices could make bad guys better at being bad.
- Where Khan went wrong
- Some of the Empire’s greatest mistakes
- And who are these aliens messing up our Independence Day?
Hit your streaming service of choice for our Summer Security Blockbusters!
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