On this episode - Getting creepy face-time with your favorite sports team, banking in India makes a serious security move, and subtracting four zeroes for security. So much to hit on this edition of The Checklist brought to you by SecureMac.

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Apple is upping its intelligence quotient. The Cupertino-company let slip the first bits of Apple Intelligence to developers this week, with betas for the OS after next. We'll hit some security features tied into that. Plus - the operating systems we've already got got updates this week with a lot of security fixes. We'll touch on those on this edition of The Checklist brought to you by SecureMac.

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It was sort of surprising when Google announced years ago that it planned to block third-party cookies from its Chrome browser. This prompted a few questions like - what are cookies? Why did Google pledge that? And why did it eventually change its corporate mind? We'll try to answer those questions of this edition of The Checklist, brought to you by SecureMac.

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AT&T has lost info on roughly one-third of the US population. Relax! They've plugged that hole... now. We'll look at what was lost, revisit the Ticketmaster hack, and find out if there's a Snowflake's chance of fixing any of it on Checklist No. 384, brought to you by Securemac.

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The ChatGPT app for Mac had a pretty big privacy and security problem, even if parent company OpenAI didn't think so. They fixed it anyway - we'll tell you why. Also, some bad guy may have peeked behind the DM screen at user info on Roll20. Make your saving throw! This is The Checklist, brought to you by SecureMac!

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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?

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On this edition of The Checklist by SecureMac:

• The Commerce Department is kicking Kaspersky out of the U.S.
• Another shoe has dropped in the Change Healthcare hack
• And an Apple Vision Pro bug to unleash virtual bugs

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Everything old is new again! Calls for tech companies to override end-to-end encryption for CSAM detection, Microsoft recalls Recall for now, and regulators in Canada and the UK think maybe the 23andMe breach is worth investigating. That's all ahead on this edition of The Checklist… brought to you by SecureMac.

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For years, Apple has built a reputation on privacy and security - and that's about to be tested in a big way. The company has announced plans to fold A.I. (Apple Intelligence) into its next big round of OS updates. We'll look at how they plan to keep that secure. Plus - new features coming to protect user privacy and security.

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Another week - another apparent loss of consumer information. Who's got tickets to all the hottest shows, info on half-a-billion people, and a seemingly serious security headache? We'll let you know on this edition of The Checklist brought to you by SecureMac.

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