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Welcome to Episode 39 Sorry for the duplicate folks!  Episode 39 somehow got published with Episode 37 attached to it!  This is a re-release of 39, with the proper episode!  News https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-20/new-sony-ceo-to-detail-shift-away-from-gadgets-in-mid-term-plan https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/advocacy-groups-call-for-the-ftc-to-break-up-facebook/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/memory-transferred-between-snails-challenging-standard-theory-of-how-the-brain-remembers/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/teen-phone-monitoring-app-leaks-thousands-of-users-data/ https://www.techrepublic.com/article/linux-admins-dire-vulnerability-gives-attackers-root-access-in-rhel-centos-fedora/ https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/3442151 https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/china-has-launched-a-communications-satellite-to-the-moon/   Announcements On June 6th the DC610 group is meeting for their monthly meetup.   Chat http://atac2018.clamp-it.org/ … Continue reading "Episode 39 – WordPress like a Pro! – Edited"

Welcome to Episode 39 News https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-20/new-sony-ceo-to-detail-shift-away-from-gadgets-in-mid-term-plan https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/advocacy-groups-call-for-the-ftc-to-break-up-facebook/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/memory-transferred-between-snails-challenging-standard-theory-of-how-the-brain-remembers/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/teen-phone-monitoring-app-leaks-thousands-of-users-data/ https://www.techrepublic.com/article/linux-admins-dire-vulnerability-gives-attackers-root-access-in-rhel-centos-fedora/ https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/3442151 https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/china-has-launched-a-communications-satellite-to-the-moon/   Announcements On June 6th the DC610 group is meeting for their monthly meetup.   Chat http://atac2018.clamp-it.org/ To the cloud!   Main topic WordPress with Charles! WordPress Security Plugins Compared How To Create A Full-Featured Security Solution For Your WordPress Website Understanding WordPress … Continue reading "Episode 39 – WordPress like a Pro!"

Welcome to Episode 38! News https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/07/microsoft-says-700m-devices-now-run-windows-10/ https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/4/15176766/apple-microsoft-windows-10-vs-mac-users-figures-stats https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-service-blocks-eu-users-so-companies-can-save-thousands-on-gdpr-compliance/ https://www.engadget.com/2018/05/06/ticketmaster-hopes-to-speed-up-event-access-by-scanning-your-fac/ https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/06/two-friends-invent-smart-ticket-tech-outwit-touts https://www.blog.google/products/assistant/turning-your-house-smart-home-google-assistant/ https://sixcolors.com/post/2017/02/automate-this-red-alert-shields-up/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/you-cant-opt-out-of-sharing-your-data-even-if-you-didnt-opt-in/ https://www.wired.com/story/change-your-twitter-password-right-now/   Announcements Derbycon tickets on sale!  PSYCH! 13 seconds. SOLD OUT.   Chat Dustin has nipples!!!  useless nipples.   Watch us live every other Monday night! Subscribe and hit the bell! Slack workspace Find us on Twitter, and Facebook! Subscribe where … Continue reading "Episode 38 – No Topic"

Welcome to Episode 37 News https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywxjvg/steel-ball-control-dreams-dormio-mit-hypnagogia https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-23/amazon-is-said-to-be-working-on-another-big-bet-home-robots https://betanews.com/2018/04/23/windows-8-secret-puzzle-leak/ https://www.inverse.com/article/43968-net-neutrality-wont-disappear-yet https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/drupalgeddon2-touches-off-arms-race-to-mass-exploit-powerful-web-servers/   Announcements DC610 5/2   Chat Under armor breach Panera breach ECS fargate Main topic HOLY WAR Drupal vs wordpress   Watch us live every other Monday night! Subscribe and hit the bell! Slack workspace Find us on Twitter, and Facebook! Subscribe wherever you find podcasts! … Continue reading "Episode 37 – Drupal VS WordPress!"

Welcome to Episode 36   News https://www.cnet.com/news/report-two-thirds-of-tweeted-links-come-from-bots/ https://phys.org/news/2018-04-asteroid-dinosaurs-againnew-theory.html https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/04/flushing-toilets-launch-germs-and-hot-air-dryers-aim-them-at-your-hands/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_over_HTTPS   Announcements  Ready player one?   Patreon? Chat Paranormal Society podcast https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/paranormal-society-podcast My facebook dump didn’t contain anything meaningful.   Feedback?   Main topic Keeping Sysadmins interested.   Watch us live every other Monday night! Subscribe and hit the bell! Slack workspace Find us on … Continue reading "Episode 36 – Keeping Sysadmins Interested"

Welcome to Episode #35 Witty Intro Google blocks the non-googles, Asparagus is bad for boobs (BOO!), Reddit users ruin everything, Facebook takes a dive, Flat Rocketman Flies, Scrapebook, and Nate ruins everything with one simple command.   Tonight on Iron Sysadmin, Episode 35! WE’RE BACK, BABY! News https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/03/google-starts-blocking-uncertified-android-devices-from-logging-in/ https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/07/cutting-asparagus-could-prevent-spread-of-breast-cancer-study-shows https://theoutline.com/post/3825/one-percent-of-reddit-users-ruin-everything?zd=1&zi=ckyrrfht https://qz.com/1237634/cambridge-analytica-scandal-confirmation-of-ftc-probe-pushes-facebooks-10-day-market-loss-to-90-billion/ http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-rocket-man-blast-20180325-story.html https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/facebook-scraped-call-text-message-data-for-years-from-android-phones/ Announcements Renewed our … Continue reading "Episode 35 – Don’t be like Nate."

Welcome to Episode 34! News https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/29/vmware-could-buy-dell-in-what-could-be-techs-biggest-deal-ever–a-reverse-merger-that-would-bring-dell-back-to-public-markets.html https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/29/elon-musk-sells-21m-of-flamethrowers-in-a-day-plus-extinguishers https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/29/automation-to-take-1-in-3-jobs-in-uks-northern-centres-report-finds https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/29/581597949/pentagon-reviews-gps-data-after-soldiers-strava-tracks-are-seemingly-exposed https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lenovos-fingerprint-scanner-can-be-bypassed-via-a-hardcoded-password/ https://www.darkreading.com/endpoint/new-voice-mfa-tool-uses-machine-learning-/d/d-id/1330905 https://www.darkreading.com/risk/microsoft-issues-emergency-patch-to-disable-intels-broken-spectre-fix/d/d-id/1330932?_mc=rss_x_drr_edt_aud_dr_x_x-rss-simple Announcements Chat Main topic Network inspection (NIDS/NIPS) Snort Netflow Bro Where can you find us? https://www.ironsysadmin.com https://www.patreon.com/ironsysadmin https://www.facebook.com/ironsysadmin https://www.ironsysadmin.com/youtube   https://www.ironsysadmin.com/slack Apple Podcasts Stitcher! Google Play Podcasts Intro and Outro music credit: Tri Tachyon, Digital MK 2 http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Tri-Tachyon/  

Welcome to Episode 33! News • https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lenovo-discovers-and-removes-backdoor-in-networking-switches/ • https://thehackernews.com/2018/01/wpa3-wifi-security.html • https://www.infoworld.com/article/3246274/open-source-tools/20-years-on-open-source-hasnt-changed-the-world-as-promised.html • https://thehackernews.com/2018/01/intel-amt-vulnerability.html • https://thehackernews.com/2018/01/macos-dns-hijacker.html • https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/01/everyone-made-themselves-hero-remembering-aaron-swartz Announcements • Episodes 30 – 32 ogg, iDevice problems? • Episode 31B – bad release, re-try, it‘s fixed now. • The Patron we lost months ago, is back! Chat Main topic • https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/meltdown-and-spectre-heres-what-intel-apple-microsoft-others-are-doing-about-it/ • https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/bad-docs-and-blue-screens-make-microsoft-suspend-spectre-patch-for-amd-machines/ • https://www.sans.org/webcasts/meltdown-spectre-understanding-mitigating-threats-106815/success • … Continue reading "Episode 33 – Specter and Meltdown"

Hey folks, we’ve got something a little different tonight.  Both Jason and Dustin are unavailable, so my friend Danny has agree’d to step up and stand in on tonight’s show. Danny is one of the Hosts of Rally Security @rallysecurity, and works for Sqrrl @sqrrldata.  He also helped build InfoSanity @infosanityorg, a site/support group for folks in IT … Continue reading "Episode 32 – InfoSanity, and Sqrrl"

We were invited to participate in the year-end InfoSec podcast, with Braking Down Security, Purple Squad, rally sec, and Advanced Persistent Security.  It was a good time!  Nate participated, Jason and Dustin couldn’t make it. Here are some links we discussed in the show, and contact info for the other shows involved. Happy 2018! https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/every-single-american-household/ … Continue reading "Episode 31B – Year end InfoSec Podcast"

I’m trying something new.  We’ve got a few weeks off from recording, so I thought I’d record a few solo shorts.  Just me killing some time.  Tonight I’m talking about the Sans Holiday Hack Challenge.

Welcome to Episode 20 Encryption is evil, the ls replacement nobody asked for, automatic updates are for losers, spending money equals guilty?, and we discuss orchestras? Tonight, on IRON SYSADMIN!  EPISODE 20! News https://ar.al/notes/decrypting-amber-rudd/ Exa – A Modern Replacement for “ls Command” Written in Rust http://www.computerworld.com/article/3213929/microsoft-windows/the-case-against-windows-automatic-update.html https://theoutline.com/post/2054/the-wannacry-hacker-hero-was-spending-big-in-vegas-before-his-arrest https://www.engadget.com/2017/08/04/marcus-hutchins-kronos-malwaretech/ http://www.csoonline.com/article/3213198/security/wannacry-hero-to-pay-30-000-for-bail-pled-not-guilty-to-kronos-trojan-charges.html https://theoutline.com/post/2054/the-wannacry-hacker-hero-was-spending-big-in-vegas-before-his-arrest Announcements s3Stat Chat Reply all … Continue reading "Episode 20 – Docker Orhchestration"

News Watch the new trailer for Blade Runner 2049 https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/17/07/16/1822209/doctor-whos-13th-time-lord-announced-actress-jodie-whittaker https://www.fastcodesign.com/90132632/ai-is-inventing-its-own-perfect-languages-should-we-let-it https://www.engadget.com/2017/07/17/ibm-z-automatically-encrypts-all-data/ https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-upload-a-galloping-horse-gif-into-bacteria-with-crispr/ There is no hacker called ‘Jayden K. Smith’ http://thehackernews.com/2017/07/ashley-madison-data-breach.html?m=1 Announcements Stickers are in, and rather bad New stickers are on the way Chat Go! or go? or gO? Derby is coming along. Old coders have bad habits. Main topic Docker Networking Built-in (and overlay) … Continue reading "Episode 19 – Docker Networking"

Welcome to Episode 18! News https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/03/facebook-track-browsing-history-california-lawsuit https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/03/notpetya-malware-attacks-ukraine-warrant-retaliation-nato-researcher-tomas-minarik http://m.windowsitpro.com/cloud/report-openstack-superfan-walmart-tells-partners-avoid-aws-cloud http://thehackernews.com/2017/06/windows10-controlled-folder-access-ransomware-protection.html?m=1 Why NotPetya Kept Me Awake (& You Should Worry Too) http://blog.girlscouts.org/2017/06/girl-scouts-and-palo-alto-networks.html Announcements LV Hackers – Wednesday night Chat We got feedback!  Chris listens too much (we’re worried!), and Alister (Check out his podcast too, the Admin Admin podcast) lives across the pond! OLED Microservice – https://github.com/gangrif/oled-microservice Main topic … Continue reading "Episode 18 – Docker!"

Welcome to Episode #17 News http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-warns-of-destructive-cyberattacks-issues-new-windows-xp-patches/ https://www.androidcentral.com/galaxy-s8-update-gets-rid-black-navigation-bar https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/the-right-to-repair-movement-is-forcing-apple-to-change SambaCry: This Linux Malware Is Turning Machines Into CryptoCurrency Miners http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/apple-employees-caught-selling-customers-personal-data-chinese-black-market-1625333 The Stack Clash Announcements Stickers! Chat Main topic Access to “private” data as a sysadmin User’s privacy? Where can you find us? https://www.ironsysadmin.com https://www.patreon.com/ironsysadmin https://www.facebook.com/ironsysadmin https://www.ironsysadmin.com/youtube Tweets by ironsysadmin Apple iTunes Stitcher! Intro and Outro music … Continue reading "Episode 17 – Sensitive Data"