Android Foils AirTag Stalkers and Thieves — While Apple Does Nothing - Security Boulevard

C’mon Cupertino:

An Apple #AirTag that’s not yours traveling with you is bad news. Now Android will alert you.

What’s Apple doing? Sitting on their hands. In today’s #SBBlogwatch, we can’t wait until Tim’s crew get with the program. At @TechstrongGroup’s @SecurityBlvd: https://t.co/1WbSTFaQio

— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) July 28, 2023

Overture Maps’ Challenge to Google ¦ Frontier Model Forum’s AI Safety Shtick - DevOps.com

The moral of the story: You have two hands—one for helping yourself, the other for helping others

In this week’s #TheLongView:
1⃣ A big-tech consortium goes toe-to-toe with @GoogleMaps, and
2⃣ A big-tech consortium tries to fool #AI regulators.

At @TechstrongGroup’s @DevOpsDotCom: https://t.co/mUoIqlO36p #DevOps

— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) July 27, 2023

ALERT: Google Wants to DRM your OS for ‘Web Environment Integrity’ - Security Boulevard

We Will Kill WEI:

Google calls it #WebEnvironmentIntegrity (#WEI): A super-secure service to certify your OS hasn’t been messed with.

Naturally, the “freedom to tinker” brigade are up in arms. In today’s #SBBlogwatch, we see both sides. At @TechstrongGroup’s @SecurityBlvd: https://t.co/5OeH6sT43W

— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) July 26, 2023

No net for some, no root for devs — Google pilot walls off staff internet, access for ‘safety’ - ReversingLabs

The future of zero trust?

Googlers will be protected from themselves. In what’s described as a pilot program, they’ll lose internet access at work and/or root privs.

The idea is to stop break-ins. In this week’s #SSBlogwatch we try not to imagine the horror. For @ReversingLabs: https://t.co/jiSig18Bn9

— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) July 25, 2023

‘China’ Azure Breach: MUCH Worse Than Microsoft Said - Security Boulevard

Storm-0558 Breaks:

Nasty hack ‘by #China’ even nastier: Hackers stole a key cracking open AAD multi-tenant apps.

People are using words like “shoddy” and “fiasco.”

In today’s #SBBlogwatch, we wonder if #EntraID rebrand is connected. At @TechstrongGroup’s @SecurityBlvd: https://t.co/KXi0qjTHha

— @Richi 🤓 Jennings (@RiCHi) July 24, 2023