I know the weird reliance/obsession over #iMessage and what colours their bubbles are on their stock Messages app is a very US thing, but #Nothing working with #Sunbird to "bring" iMessage over to #Android is pretty cool or at least funny lol - it really highlights what trivial things people could care (too much) about.
I was already highly considering switching to #Nothing, but this might lock me in.
"Nothing Chats is a first-of-its-kind app developed in partnership with #Sunbird, which allows you to message other #iMessage users via blue bubbles on your Nothing Phone."
Nachrichten-App: lange auf den Plus-Button drücken, um Fotos zu versenden
Der Titel sagt schon viel über den Tipp. In der Nachrichten-App kann man über den Plus-Button → Fotos Bilder und Videos versenden. Oder aber man drückt etwas länger auf die Plus-Taste, um die neusten Medien angezeigt zu bekommen. Ein Tippen auf das Textfeld bringt die Tastatur zurück. …
📨 Latest issue of my curated #cybersecurity and #infosec list of resources for week #44/2023 is out! It includes the following and much more:
➝ 🔓 #Okta hit by another #breach, this one stealing employee data from 3rd-party vendor
➝ 🔓 💸 #LastPass breach linked to theft of $4.4 million in crypto
➝ 🇮🇳 #India's Biggest Data Leak So Far? Covid-19 Test Info of 81.5Cr Citizens With ICMR Up for Sale
➝ 🔓 ✈️ #Lockbit ransomware group claims to have hacked #Boeing
➝ 🇳🇱 ⚖️ Dutch hacker jailed for extortion, selling stolen data on RaidForums
➝ 🇷🇺 🇺🇸 Russian Reshipping Service ‘SWAT USA Drop’ Exposed
➝ 🇮🇷 🦠 Iranian Cyber Spies Use ‘#LionTail’ Malware in Latest Attacks
➝ 📉 Security researchers observed ‘deliberate’ takedown of notorious #Mozi#botnet
➝ 🇮🇳 📱 Apple warns Indian opposition leaders of state-sponsored #iPhone attacks
➝ 🌍 Four dozen countries declare they won’t pay #ransomware ransoms
➝ 🇷🇺 How #Kopeechka, an Automated Social Media Accounts Creation Service, Can Facilitate #Cybercrime
➝ 🇪🇺 EU digital ID reforms should be ‘actively resisted’, say experts
➝ 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #FSB arrests Russian hackers working for Ukrainian cyber forces
➝ 🇺🇸 FTC orders non-bank financial firms to report breaches in 30 days
➝ 🇨🇦 📱 #Canada Bans #WeChat and #Kaspersky Apps On Government Devices
➝ 🇺🇸 #SEC Charges #SolarWinds and Its #CISO With Fraud and Cybersecurity Failures
➝ 🇺🇸 🤖 #Biden Wants to Move Fast on AI Safeguards and Will Sign an Executive Order to Address His Concerns
➝ 🦠 📱 #Avast confirms it tagged Google app as #malware on Android phones
➝ 🦠 🇰🇵 North Korean Hackers Targeting Crypto Experts with #KANDYKORN#macOS Malware
➝ 👥 💸 EleKtra-Leak #Cryptojacking Attacks Exploit #AWS IAM Credentials Exposed on #GitHub
➝ 🦠 🐍 Trojanized #PyCharm Software Version Delivered via #Google Search Ads
➝ ✅ 🤖 #GooglePlay adds security audit badges for Android #VPN apps
➝ 🔐 Microsoft pledges to bolster security as part of ‘Secure Future’ initiative
➝ 🆕 FIRST Releases #CVSS 4.0 Vuln Scoring Standard
➝ 🆕 #MITRE Releases ATT&CK v14 With Improvements to Detections, ICS, Mobile
➝ ⛔️ 🦠 #Samsung Galaxy gets new Auto Blocker anti-malware feature
➝ 🍏 🔐 #Apple Improves #iMessage Security With Contact Key Verification
➝ 🔓 Researchers Find 34 #Windows Drivers Vulnerable to Full Device Takeover
➝ 🔓 🪶 3,000 #Apache#ActiveMQ servers vulnerable to RCE attacks exposed online
➝ 🗣️ #Atlassian CISO Urges Quick Action to Protect #Confluence Instances From Critical #Vulnerability
➝ 🔓 🩸 “This vulnerability is now under mass exploitation.” #CitrixBleed bug bites hard
➝ 🐛 💰 HackerOne paid ethical hackers over $300 million in #bugbounties
📚 This week's recommended reading is: "Permanent Record" by Edward Snowden
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I'm going to start a new Social Network that connects absolutely **every other Social Network together so that #Threads users can talk to #Fediverse users, and #Bluesky users can talk to #Nostr users!!
...not like right away cause that's literally hard, but SOMEDAY! Here, have some invites to hand out to your friends!!
Switched from iMessage to Telegram again because iMessage often feels sluggish and only my wife and I were left there.
Now I realized there's no app for the Apple Watch? What the heck? When did this happen? In used it very often back then. Why is it gone? That's a huge bummer and makes Telegram much less useful.
Ahhh for consistency — greeted today on #macOS#Sonoma with the long standing #iMessage notifications bug where they are just from phone numbers/AppleIDs... and don’t resolve to your contacts.
Reminder that Apple uses a technology literally invented in 1984 to brainwash their users into thinking anyone using a non-Apple device is poor.
This lie is rampant and reinforced by the billionaire CEO of Apple, the richest company to ever exist.
Apple intentionally makes their devices bad at communicating with other devices because it means kids without Apple devices might get bullied into giving Apple more money. Apple knows this, and plays into it.
Meanwhile, outside of the Apple bubble, $2k Samsung phones more powerful than most computers with 10× periscope optical zoom lenses and 7" folding screens can send 4K HDR video to a $50 Nokia burner phone, and it works fine on both sides. The burner phone can give that video a 👍 and see when the other person is typing. And their whole conversation is end-to-end encrypted, even if they create a new group with a third person who has a midrange Google phone.
Today I had an iPhone user send me a video and the format was just hilariously broken, like I haven’t seen from an Android user in a decade. Actively worse than even a normal MMS video!
Apple still pillboxes vertical video inside a 320×240 pixel file, and sends that. This is not even a limitation of MMS or Android—it is Apple intentionally sabotaging your video when you send it.
📨 Latest issue of my curated #cybersecurity and #infosec list of resources for week #36/2023 is out! It includes the following and much more:
➝ 🇺🇸 ☁️ #Microsoft finally explains cause of #Azure breach: An engineer’s account was hacked
➝ 🎫 🔓 See Tickets says #hackers accessed customers’ payment data — again
➝ 🇳🇱 🔓 Chipmaker NXP Semiconductors confirms #databreach involving customers’ information
➝ 🇬🇧 🔓 #UK election body failed cybersecurity test before hack
➝ 🚮 🔓 #Freecycle confirms massive data breach impacting 7 million users
➝ 🇦🇺 🔓 University of #Sydney data breach impacts recent applicants
➝ 🇷🇺 🇺🇸 Wealthy Russian With #Kremlin Ties Gets 9 Years in #Prison for Hacking and Insider Trading Scheme
➝ 🇺🇸 ✈️ US Aeronautical Organization Hacked via #Zoho, #Fortinet Vulnerabilities
➝ 🇮🇷 🎣 Alert: #Phishing Campaigns Deliver New SideTwist Backdoor and Agent Tesla Variant
➝ 🇺🇦 🇷🇺 #Ukraine's CERT Thwarts #APT28's Cyberattack on Critical Energy #Infrastructure
➝ 🎰 💸 #Crypto#casino Stake.com loses $41 million to hot wallet hackers
➝ 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 US, UK take action against members of the Russian-linked #Trickbot hacker syndicate
➝ 🚗 👀 25 Major Car Brands Get Failing Marks From Mozilla for Security and Privacy
➝ 🇬🇧 👀 UK lawmakers back down on encryption-busting ‘spy clause’
➝ 🌏 Hundreds of thousands trafficked to work as online scammers in SE #Asia, says UN report
➝ 🇺🇸 ✍🏻 #CISA Hires @dotmudge to Work on Security-by-Design Principles
➝ 🇬🇧 🛒 Children's snack recalled after its website caught serving porn
➝ 🇸🇪 💰 Insurer fined $3M for exposing data of 650k clients for two years
➝ 🇷🇺 Elon Musk's erosion of safety standards at X is helping #Putin spread Russian propaganda, study finds
➝ 🇰🇵 North Korea-backed hackers target security researchers with 0-day
➝ 🎣 Researchers identify high-grade phishing kits attacking nearly 60,000 #Microsoft365 accounts
➝ 🇮🇳 🤖 #India warns of #malware attacks targeting its #Android users
➝ 🇨🇳 💬 Chinese-Speaking Cybercriminals Launch Large-Scale #iMessage Smishing Campaign in U.S.
➝ 💸 💌 Fake #YouPorn extortion #scam threatens to leak your sex tape
➝ 👤 #Okta Warns of Social Engineering Attacks Targeting Super Administrator Privileges
➝ 🎣 🛡️ #Google is enabling #Chrome real-time phishing protection for everyone
➝ 📱🧨 Hacking device #FlipperZero can spam nearby #iPhones with #Bluetooth pop-ups
➝ 🩹 🍏 #Apple patches “clickless” 0-day image processing #vulnerability in #iOS, #macOS
➝ 🩹 🔓 #AtlasVPN to Patch IP Leak Vulnerability After Public Disclosure
📚 This week's recommended reading is: "Blue Team Handbook: SOC, SIEM, and Threat Hunting (V1.02): A Condensed Guide for the Security Operations Team and Threat Hunter" by Don Murdoch GSE, MSISE, MBA
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WhatsApp could be preparing to comply with Europe's Digital Markets Act by creating Third-Party Chats. 9to5Mac says it could offer WhatsApp users the ability to message someone using Facebook Messenger or potentially iMessage.
#pypush now has a branch where it can register a phone number to your #Apple#iMessage account via a helper #Android app.
This means that you can send iMessages from your phone number (better than email for some reason) with #Beeper or #BlueBubbles, without owning an iPhone.