podcast – Iron Sysadmin Podcast

Welcome to Episode 16 News https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-announce/2017/000406.html http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=cve-2017-7494 https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/02/if-hacking-back-is-law-what-could-possibly-go-wrong/ https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/1/15720814/nasa-curiosity-rover-mars-petrified-mud-lake-gale-crater-habitable-microbial-life https://news.slashdot.org/story/17/06/05/2040216/videotapes-are-becoming-unwatchable-as-archivists-work-to-save-them https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/06/05/1730204/microsoft-leak-reveals-new-windows-10-workstation-edition-for-power-users Announcements LV Hackers this week. https://www.meetup.com/LVHackers/events/240111155/ Chat undrground.org/hmd2016 Main topic Health, it’s important. Keep Moving Fitness trackers Standing desks? expensive equipment, chairs, beds, whatnot, may be worth the money. Where can you find us? www.ironsysadmin.com patreon.com/ironsysadmin https://www.facebook.com/ironsysadmin https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsLgL5c-US8XWPuXHHszNzA Tweets by ironsysadmin Apple iTunes Stitcher! Intro … Continue reading "Episode 16 – Health"

Welcome to Episode 15 News WannaCry? http://thehackernews.com/2017/05/wannacry-ransomware-decryption-tool.html http://thehackernews.com/2017/05/smb-windows-hacking-tools.html https://insights.hpe.com/articles/you-can-build-your-own-lte-network-over-wi-fi-frequencies-well-not-quite-yet-1705.html Facebook offering “vulnerable teens” to advertisers shows it is willing to be used as a weapon Announcements Jason has a new mic! Chat Strong beer Old fashioned mix? Main topic Protecting against ransomeware Recovering from ransomeware Where can you find us? www.ironsysadmin.com https://www.facebook.com/ironsysadmin https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsLgL5c-US8XWPuXHHszNzA Tweets by … Continue reading "Episode 15 – WannaCry!"

Welcome to Episode 14 News http://thehackernews.com/2017/05/windows-rce-exploit.html http://fortune.com/2017/05/07/android-listening https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/05/03/massive-google-gmail-phish-many-victims/#6af6ce8342a1 https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/05/mac-users-installing-popular-dvd-ripper-get-nasty-backdoor-instead Announcements Derbycon tickets are on sale!  And gone Chat Main topic Devops for security Securing your devops Where can you find us? www.ironsysadmin.com https://www.facebook.com/ironsysadmin https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsLgL5c-US8XWPuXHHszNzA Tweets by ironsysadmin Apple iTunes Stitcher! Intro and Outro music credit: Tri Tachyon, Digital MK 2 http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Tri-Tachyon/

Welcome to Episode 13 News https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/04/chrome-firefox-and-opera-users-beware-this-isnt-the-apple-com-you-want/ this is horrifying. https://developers.slashdot.org/story/17/04/23/0339211/flawed-online-tutorials-led-to-vulnerabilities-in-software https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/04/23/0027207/should-archiveorg-ignore-robotstxt-directives-and-cache-everything http://everythingsysadmin.com/2017/04/dnscontrol-blogpost.html Announcements Pareon donors are awesome! Chat Kubernetes, Amazon ECS.  Jeepin! Main topic Incident Response https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incident_management_(ITSM) Intro and Outro music credit: Tri Tachyon, Digital MK 2 http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Tri-Tachyon/

Welcome to Episode 12! News https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/update-on-the-april-5th-2017-outage/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/06/microsoft_windows_10_creators_update/?mt=1491577380488 https://thehackernews.com/2017/03/samsung-galaxy-s8-facial-unlocking.html https://medium.com/@shadowbrokerss/dont-forget-your-base-867d304a94b1 https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/04/booby-trapped-word-documents-in-the-wild-exploit-critical-microsoft-0day/ Chat Kubernetes Jeeps! What’s this mastodon thing? Main topic DR! Intro and Outro music credit: Tri Tachyon, Digital MK 2 http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Tri-Tachyon/  

Welcome to Episode 11! News https://www.undrground.org/node/178 https://www.cnet.com/news/samsung-galaxy-s8-launch-note-7-note-8-battery-blowup-what-change/ http://time.com/4709302/alcohol-heart-disease-risk/  BECAUSE BEER IS GOOD FOR YOU! https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/senate-votes-to-let-isps-sell-your-web-browsing-history-to-advertisers Announcements Ep12, live stream and stuffs. Chat openshift origin  http://www.openshift.org Main topic Open all the stacks with @fultonj So what the heck is openstack? Why wouldn’t i just use Amazon EC2? What’s Trible-O? HyperConverge! Ceph Intro and Outro music credit: … Continue reading "Episode 11 – OpenStack!"

Welcome to Episode 10 News https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-08/microsoft-pledges-to-use-arm-server-chips-threatening-intel-s-dominance Firefox 52 will be the last version of Firefox for Windows XP and Vista https://www.cnet.com/news/look-out-windows-android-is-catching-up/ https://www.wired.com/2017/03/atari-chip-set-off-bitter-war-among-neuroscientists/?mbid=nl_3817_p2&CNDID=21798766 http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v543/n7644/full/nature21371.html NIST’s new password rules – what you need to know https://xkcd.com/936/ Announcements Feedback @Gangrif and @Xenophage make a great pair that will titillate ones’s ears! They cover things in the ops and … Continue reading "Episode 10 – Trouble in the Cloud"

Welcome Episode 9 News https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1139 http://fortune.com/2017/02/21/google-site-search-discontinued/ (sorry for the obnoxious auto-play) Cellebrite can now unlock iPhone 6 and 6+, also extract data from array of popular apps https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-23/social-media-is-driving-americans-insane Announcements http://www.patreon.com/ironsysadmin Plans for ironsysadmin.com LVHackers Round 2: Security Bugaloo Wednesday, Mar 1, 2017, 6:00 PM Two Rivers Brewing542 Northampton St Easton, PA 17 Hackers Went Holy … Continue reading "Episode 9 – Linux Hardening"

News http://www.computerworld.com/article/3162416/data-center/booted-up-in-1993-this-server-still-runs-but-not-for-much-longer.html Internet Backbone Provider Cogent Blocks Pirate Bay and other “Pirate” Sites https://www.macrumors.com/2017/02/09/2017-iphones-wireless-charging/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/justice-naps-man-jailed-16-months-for-refusing-to-reveal-passwords/ https://www.trustedsec.com/blog/office-365-advanced-threat-protection-features-shortfalls/ Announcements http://www.patreon.com/ironsysadmin We have a domain now!  www.ironsysadmin.com And an email address!  podcast -at- ironsysadmin.com http://www.infosanity.org/ Chat Internet in the docker in the cloud in the docker Alpine? (docker image) VM Providers : https://lowendbox.com/ Main topic Picking a cloud, … Continue reading "Episode 8 – Choosing a cloud or service provider"

News Dell’s Has Sold ‘Tens of Millions’ Dollars’ Worth of Project Sputnik Laptops http://lineageos.org/Yes-this-is-us/ https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/17/01/26/2030201/microsoft-reportedly-working-on-a-lightweight-version-of-windows-known-as-cloud-shell http://www.macworld.com/article/3161757/techology-business/the-week-in-apple-news-ios-10-3-public-beta-apple-vs-qualcomm-night-shift-for-macos-sierra-and-more.html — Related — https://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/06/a-zfs-developers-analysis-of-the-good-and-bad-in-apples-new-apfs-file-system/ Main topic cloud services follow-up vendor lock in level of control, vs ease of use you’ll totally save an FTE And money, youll save money. No, you wont. Intro and Outro music credit: Tri Tachyon, … Continue reading "Episode 7 – Cloud Wrap-up"

News https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/01/10/238223/why-you-shouldnt-trust-geek-squad https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/17/01/10/1428219/fitbit-buys-vector-romanian-startups-existing-smartwatches-wont-receive-software-updates-anymore https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/17/01/13/1457242/half-the-work-people-do-can-be-automated-says-mckinsey https://it.slashdot.org/story/17/01/13/1444233/security-experts-rebut-the-guardians-report-that-claimed-whatsapp-has-a-backdoor https://security.web.cern.ch/security/venom.shtml http://rhelblog.redhat.com/2017/01/13/docker-0-day-stopped-cold-by-selinux/ It turns out that halfway clever phishing attacks really, really work Main topic What do you do when you’re in over your head? Are you over-thinking the problem? is there someone you can turn to for help? google is your friend a good toolset can help Intro to … Continue reading "Episode 6 – What To Do When You’re In Over Your Head"

News https://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/12/27/1427215/with-cyanogen-dead-googles-control-over-android-is-tighter-than-ever https://apple.slashdot.org/story/16/12/27/0157226/apple-publishes-its-first-ai-research-paper https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-tests-new-green-screen-of-death-on-latest-windows-10-builds/ http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/12/op-ed-im-giving-up-on-pgp/ Main topic Handling incoming tasks task lists? issue/request trackers? Email/inbox mundane/repetitive tasks Intro and Outro mysic credit: Tri Tachyon, Digital MK 2 http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Tri-Tachyon/

Holiday Hack: http://www.holidayhackchallenge.com News http://thehackernews.com/2016/12/yahoo-data-breach-billion.html https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/16/12/15/2051214/verizon-changes-its-mind-and-will-kill-samsungs-galaxy-note-7-on-january-5th https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/16/12/15/1929243/fitbit-wont-kill-off-pebble-services-at-least-until-2018 http://sysadvent.blogspot.com/2016/12/day-6-no-more-on-call-martyrs.html https://linux.slashdot.org/story/16/12/16/0229207/zero-days-hitting-fedora-and-ubuntu-open-desktops-to-a-world-of-hurt Main topic Dont be too proud – we all started somewhere you’re probably going to have to take support calls maybe as your primary role You’re probably going to be on-call You’re probably going to have to deal with “idiots” They’re not really idiots. http://theoatmeal.com/comics/unhappy Intro … Continue reading "Episode 4 – Managing Expectations"

News http://www.securityweek.com/disgruntled-gamer-likely-behind-october-us-hacking-expert http://thehackernews.com/2016/11/acquisition-oracle-dyn.html http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/11/elegant-0day-unicorn-underscores-serious-concerns-about-linux-security/ https://linux.slashdot.org/story/16/12/04/0142242/devuans-systemd-free-linux-hits-beta-2 Main topic So you want to be a sysadmin   Intro and outro music credit: Tri Tachyon, Digital MK 2 http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Tri-Tachyon/

News Stickers let you trick fingerprint readers https://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/11/09/2249222/fake-fingerprint-stickers-let-you-access-a-protected-phone-while-wearing-gloves RHEL 7.3! http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Red-Hat-Releases-Red-Hat-Enterprise-Linux-7.3 EMET is going away https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2458544 Microsoft is hiring autistic people https://www.fastcompany.com/3062835/hr/microsoft-autism-hiring CRISPR gene editing http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a23898/crispr-gene-editing-tool-used-on-a-human/ Main topic You got your dev in my ops. What Is DevOps?   Intro and outro music credit: Tri Tachyon, Digital MK 2 http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Tri-Tachyon/