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Infosec Decoded Season 4 #89: Don't Use Your Phone

With Doug Spindler and @sambowne@infosec.exchange

Recorded Fri, Nov 8, 2024

Sam Bowne

Microsoft just learned its lesson about overcharging for AI features
Copilot Pro no longer a standalone subscription, now bundled into Microsoft 365

U.S. Agency Warns Employees About Phone Use Amid Ongoing China Hack
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau tells workers to reduce use of cellphones for work due to risk from China-linked telecom intrusion. Meetings and conversations that involve nonpublic data should only be held on platforms like Microsoft Teams and Cisco WebEx and not on work-issued or personal phones.

Chinese hackers gained access to huge trove of Americans’ cell records
Chinese hackers accessed sensitive cellular logs on a vast number of Americans after penetrating inside a swathe of U.S. telecommunications providers earlier this year. Salt Typhoon “appeared to have had the ability” to access data on almost any American.

Flanked by Palantir and AWS, Anthropic's Claude marches into US defense intelligence
They will integrate Claude 3 and 3.5 with Palantir's Artificial Intelligence Platform, hosted on AWS. Both Palantir and AWS have been awarded Impact Level 6 (IL6) certification by the Department of Defense, which allows the processing and storage of classified data up to the Secret level.

Canada closes TikTok's offices but leaves using the app a matter of 'personal choice' The decision to force TikTok to close its doors "was based on the information and evidence collected over the course of the review and on the advice of Canada's security and intelligence community and other government partners," according to the government statement. A government spokesperson declined to answer questions.

SF to Start Enforcing New ‘Daylighting’ Parking Law for Parking Within 20 Feet of a Crosswalk

Police Freak Out at iPhones Mysteriously Rebooting Themselves, Locking Cops Out
iPhones which have been stored securely for forensic examination are somehow rebooting themselves, returning the devices to a state that makes them much harder to unlock. Apple may have introduced a new security feature in iOS 18 that tells nearby iPhones to reboot if they have been disconnected from a cellular network for some time.