Technado with Don Pezet

This week, Technado welcomed back an old friend, Corey Thuen from Gravwell, to tell us all about their Big Bang product launch. Corey also talked about some of the unique ways people are using Gravwell to analyze their data. In other news, the team discussed Nvidia’s $40 billion acquisition of ARM, and debate how much they’d sell one of their arms for. Then they looked at Yubico’s new USB-C Yubikey, the resurfacing of Microsoft’s underwater data center experiment, Gartner’s hot takes on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, and a scary WordPress plugin flaw.

Heather Paunet from Untangle joined the Technado crew this week to talk about how organizations can develop the best cyber security possible while still meeting budgetary restraints. She also added her expertise to a discussion on the recent Twitter hack and the role working from home may have played. In other news, the team looked at the new Fedora ThinkPad laptop from Lenovo, Western Digital getting creative with how they define RPM, a proposed ‘911’ for security flaws, Apple’s approval of notorious malware, and how the FBI botched their hack warning to the DNC back in 2016.

Heather Paunet from Untangle joined the Technado crew this week to talk about how organizations can develop the best cyber security possible while still meeting budgetary restraints. She also added her expertise to a discussion on the recent Twitter hack and the role working from home may have played. In other news, the team looked at the new Fedora ThinkPad laptop from Lenovo, Western Digital getting creative with how they define RPM, a proposed ‘911’ for security flaws, Apple’s approval of notorious malware, and how the FBI botched their hack warning to the DNC back in 2016.

What do you do when you create a groundbreaking network monitoring tool? You post the source code on GitHub and Reddit for all the world to use. This week’s guest, Costa Tsaousis of Netdata, tells the Technado crew about the nightmare that led him to create the product and why he chose to go open source. Then, in the news, the team discussed a US plan to invest $1B in AI and quantum computing, a breakdown of the CenturyLink/Level(3) outage, why a Microsoft Teams Retention Policy is so important, a Russian “tourist” offering up loads of cash for a Tesla employee to inject malware, and a disgruntled AWS engineer burning his bridges (and 456 Cisco WebEx VMs) on his way out the door.

What do you do when you create a groundbreaking network monitoring tool? You post the source code on GitHub and Reddit for all the world to use. This week’s guest, Costa Tsaousis of Netdata, tells the Technado crew about the nightmare that led him to create the product and why he chose to go open source. Then, in the news, the team discussed a US plan to invest $1B in AI and quantum computing, a breakdown of the CenturyLink/Level(3) outage, why a Microsoft Teams Retention Policy is so important, a Russian “tourist” offering up loads of cash for a Tesla employee to inject malware, and a disgruntled AWS engineer burning his bridges (and 456 Cisco WebEx VMs) on his way out the door.

If you want to talk Python, you can’t go wrong with Python Software Foundation Fellow and host of two Python podcasts, Michael Kennedy. After discussing his podcasts, Python Bytes and Talk Python To Me, Michael played a game of ‘Python, Python, or Python,’ where he and the panel guessed if headlines were about snakes, programming, or Monty Python. In the news, the team talked about the viability of a new password generator called DiceKeys, Ubuntu backporting WSL 2 to earlier Windows builds, a Chrome feature that’s causing strain on global root DNS servers, a major Gmail bug fix, and concerns about Malicious AWS community AMIs.

If you want to talk Python, you can’t go wrong with Python Software Foundation Fellow and host of two Python podcasts, Michael Kennedy. After discussing his podcasts, Python Bytes and Talk Python To Me, Michael played a game of ‘Python, Python, or Python,’ where he and the panel guessed if headlines were about snakes, programming, or Monty Python. In the news, the team talked about the viability of a new password generator called DiceKeys, Ubuntu backporting WSL 2 to earlier Windows builds, a Chrome feature that’s causing strain on global root DNS servers, a major Gmail bug fix, and concerns about Malicious AWS community AMIs.

Want to live in a world without passwords? This week’s podcast guest, Shahrokh Shahidzadeh from Acceptto, came on to talk about how it’s possible with continuous behavioral authentication. He also shared his perspective on the launch of Dropbox’s new password manager. In the news, the crew discussed Amazon’s new quantum computing service, Braket, Microsoft’s efforts to add transparency in Windows 10 updates, an exploit targeting Apache Struts Surfaces on GitHub, newly released speed tests from SpaceX Starlink, and a bug which meant Instagram wasn’t deleting photos and direct messages.

Want to live in a world without passwords? This week’s podcast guest, Shahrokh Shahidzadeh from Acceptto, came on to talk about how it’s possible with continuous behavioral authentication. He also shared his perspective on the launch of Dropbox’s new password manager. In the news, the crew discussed Amazon’s new quantum computing service, Braket, Microsoft’s efforts to add transparency in Windows 10 updates, an exploit targeting Apache Struts Surfaces on GitHub, newly released speed tests from SpaceX Starlink, and a bug which meant Instagram wasn’t deleting photos and direct messages.

It’s two for one this week on Technado, where the team talks to both Sam Rubin of The Crypsis Group and John Prisco from Quantum Xchange. After surviving a hurricane last week, John came on to talk about Quantum Xchange’s growth since we last spoke, as well as a newly-released DoE blueprint for a quantum internet. But first, Sam’s security expertise helped the guys breakdown news including a leak of passwords for 900+ enterprise VPN servers, scam browser extensions that made it in the Chrome Web Store, an IP breach from Intel finding it’s way online, pro-Trump hackers defacing popular subreddits, and a Zoombomber crashing the Twitter hack hearing in a colorful way.

It’s two for one this week on Technado, where the team talks to both Sam Rubin of The Crypsis Group and John Prisco from Quantum Xchange. After surviving a hurricane last week, John came on to talk about Quantum Xchange’s growth since we last spoke, as well as a newly-released DoE blueprint for a quantum internet. But first, Sam’s security expertise helped the guys breakdown news including a leak of passwords for 900+ enterprise VPN servers, scam browser extensions that made it in the Chrome Web Store, an IP breach from Intel finding it’s way online, pro-Trump hackers defacing popular subreddits, and a Zoombomber crashing the Twitter hack hearing in a colorful way.

With a hurricane bearing down on our scheduled guest, the Technado team decided to focus on more news in this week’s episode. First, in “Who Got Pwned,” the crew discussed the difficulties Garmin had trying to pay their ransom. Then, in “Behind Bars,” they looked at the updates to the Twitter breach that saw 2 Florida teenagers in custody. In other news, they talked about the death of Cortana on iOS and Android, a recently patched Zoom exploit, and a new tool to detect shadow admin accounts in AWS and Azure. Finally, they tried to maintain a straight face while discussing Boot Hole, a new way to install boot-level malware.

With a hurricane bearing down on our scheduled guest, the Technado team decided to focus on more news in this week’s episode. First, in “Who Got Pwned,” the crew discussed the difficulties Garmin had trying to pay their ransom. Then, in “Behind Bars,” they looked at the updates to the Twitter breach that saw 2 Florida teenagers in custody. In other news, they talked about the death of Cortana on iOS and Android, a recently patched Zoom exploit, and a new tool to detect shadow admin accounts in AWS and Azure. Finally, they tried to maintain a straight face while discussing Boot Hole, a new way to install boot-level malware.

Ben Brennan stopped by Technado this week to talk about how his company’s QSTAC data can improve the quality of IT teams as well as his book, Badass IT Support. Then, the group discussed how IT workers are like flat earthers. In the news, the panel looked at the reorg at Intel, a supercomputer collaboration between Nvidia and the University of Florida, how masks are messing with facial recognition, and a multi-day ransomware outage at Garmin. Finally, they look at the implications of a security breach at a major genealogy database.

Ben Brennan stopped by Technado this week to talk about how his company’s QSTAC data can improve the quality of IT teams as well as his book, Badass IT Support. Then, the group discussed how IT workers are like flat earthers. In the news, the panel looked at the reorg at Intel, a supercomputer collaboration between Nvidia and the University of Florida, how masks are messing with facial recognition, and a multi-day ransomware outage at Garmin. Finally, they look at the implications of a security breach at a major genealogy database.