TechSNAP OGG: Recent Episodes
Jupiter Broadcasting
An in-depth analysis of tech issues and topics. Hosted by Chris Fisher and Allan Jude, with over 20+ years in the technology industry. Tune in and get engaged by deep critical analysis and conversation around technologies’ milestones.
We’ve got the latest gossip on Apple’s brand new filesystem & why you should care! Plus Dan dives deep into the wonderful world of ZFS and FreeBSD jails & shows us how he is putting them to use in his latest server build.
Plus it’s your fantastic feedback, a riotous roundup & so much more!
We cover some fascinating new research that can steal your phone’s PIN using just the on-board sensors. Then we cover how computer security is broken from top to bottom and Dan does another deep dive, this time on everyone’s favorite database, PostgresSQL.
Plus it’s your feedback, a huge roundup & so much more!
Your Wifi Stack is under attack! But dont worry, Apple’s got the patch & we’ve got the story. Then the latest ATM hacking tips that will only cost you $15 & Dan does a deep dive into Let’s Encrypt!
Plus it’s your feedback, a huge roundup & so much more!
This week, we sell your private browsing history to the highest bidder! Oh wait, that’s your ISP! We cover the latest rollback of internet privacy regulations in the US, plus the surprisingly uplifting story of script kiddies getting their day in court, Dan does a not-so-deep dive into ZFS & explains why you should already be using it.
Plus it’s your feedback, a huge roundup & so much more!
The guys break with the usual format & turn things over to Dan for a deep deep dive on Bacula! Then it’s the latest Yahoo hack news & a few more reasons you should already be using ZFS.
Plus it’s your feedback, a huge roundup & so much more!
We crack open Vault 7 & are a little let down by what's inside, give you one more reason you should already be using ZFS & just when you thought you could trust your phone again, we’ve got the story of preinstalled Android malware. Then it’s your feedback, a huge roundup & so much more!
We’ve got the sad story of cloud-enabled toys leading to, you guessed it, leaking customer’s personal information! Plus a case of backups gone bad, but this time, it’s a good thing!
Then it’s your feedback, a huge roundup, and so much more!
Google heard you like hashes so they broke SHA1, we've got the details.
Plus we dive in to Cloudflare's data disaster, Dan shows us his rack, your feedback, a huge roundup & so much more!
The details on the latest WordPress vulnerability, then the surprising, or perhaps not so surprising takeover of a cybersecurity firms website & watch out, hacker's may be using your microphone to steal your data!
Plus a packed roundup, your feedback & so much more!
The latest on just who has access to your private email, Dan dives deep on the GitLab Postmortem & did you know that Transport for London has been tracking your wifi? We’ve got the details.
Plus a packed roundup, your feedback & so much more!
We’ve got the latest on GitLabs data disaster, a clever new method to cheat at the slots & a new Netgear exploit thats coming for your network!
Plus your feedback, a giant roundup & much, much more!
The guys cover Dropbox bugs that could be holding on to your deleted files, explain what the heck ATM ‘shimmers’ are & talk about how to keep your secret identity secret.
Plus your feedback, a packed roundup & much more!
A remote vulnerability in Ansible has been patched, the latest updates on the Mirai botnet, our first TechSNAP challenge, your feedback, a gigantic roundup & so much more!
The Github enterprise SQL scare, malware that lives in your browser, Dan’s mail server war story, your feedback, a righteous roundup & more!
Note: This is a shorter episode because the hosts are new and the first recording was also a double episode recording, expect them to get longer as the guys get more comfortable!
Malware that evades blocking systems and getting into BSD for the first time.
Plus a fresh round up, your questions & much, much more!
How the hack of DigiNotar changed the infrastructure of the Internet forever, changing the way we think about security & how to hide malware in a PNG.
Plus a packed round up, great emails & more in a packed 300th episode!
PHPMailer puts almost every PHP CMS at risk, the Fancy Bear Android Malware that has a complicated past & the new botnet that likes brag.
Plus great questions, a packed round up & much, much more!
We've given the Jupiter Broadcasting staff the holidays off, so lets take this moment to have a look back at some of the best moments of TechSNAP in 2016!
The Malvertising campaign that targets routers, script kiddies get a talking to & the Avalanche crime ringleader is on the run.
Plus your questions, a packed round up & more!
Project Zero breaks the chain, we share stories from our mischievous past & malware as a service gets busted.
Plus your great questions, a packed round up & much, much more!
A researcher accidentally roots Microsoft Azure’s Red Hat Update Infrastructure, newly discovered router flaw in-the-wild & hacking Windows 10 by holding down the shift key.
Plus your questions, our answers & a great round up!
The Debian packaging flaw that exposes your server, we go over the state of the Internet... report that is & hacking 27% of the web.
Plus some great questions, a fantastic round up & much, much more!
Get a root shell by holding down enter, comprising a Linux desktop using an NES & PoisonTap, the impressive little hacking tool.
Plus your great questions, a poppin’ round up & much, much more!
It’s a trifecta of Unix vulnerabilities, our concerns with LessPass & a very valuable vulnerability.
Plus your questions, our answers, a spicy round up & much, much more!
We go deep into sophisticated modular malware & meet the manufacturer who vows to recall their IoT devices used in recent attacks.
Plus home server questions, a fun round-up & more!
A large managed DNS provider was taken down by a DDoS, we'll tell you all about Dyn’s big outage.
Then we beat the dead dirty CoW, answer your questions, a breaking news round up & more!
Spreading the DDoS Disease & selling the cure, we have the audit results of TrueCrypt’s replacement & a comprehensive history of the most important events that shaped the SSL ecosystem.
Plus your great questions, our answers & much... Much MORE!
The Internet of Things is the Internet of Terrible, we’ll round up the week’s stories & submit the TechSNAP solution to you the audience. Plus the security cost of Android fragmentation, great questions & a packed round up!
The Source code for a historic botnet has been released, the tale of a DNS packet & four ways to hack ATMs.
Plus your hard questions, our answers, a rockin' roundup & more!
Krebs is hit with DDoS attack & then gets kicked off of Akamai. We’ll tell you about the record breaking details, Firefox puts it foot down, picking NFS or Samba…
Your questions, our answers, a packed Round Up & much more!
The FBI arrests the script kiddies that hacked the CIA director, how Dropbox hacks your Mac & the guys behind a DDoS for hire service get busted.
Plus great questions, our answers, a rockin roundup & more!
Massive drive failures after a datacenter gas attack. A critical MySQL vulnerability you should know about & is Cisco responsible for the death of an MMO?
Plus great questions, our answers & much more!
How a modified USB ethernet adapter can steal credentials, a new compression algorithm from Facebook that might be legit & the terrible terrible security of a consumer NAS.
Plus great questions, our answers, a fun roundup & much, much more!
The ShadowBrokers release a batch of the NSA’s tools & we dive in. A Google login issue allows for credential theft & researchers map the Netflix content delivery network!
Plus great feedback, follow up, a rockin' roundup & much, much more!
iOS targeted malware in the wild, the simple approach to hacking electronic safes & how digital forensics prove a journalist was framed.
Plus your great questions, a packed round up & much more!
Microsoft leaks their golden key, allowing attackers to unlock secure boot systems, a security breach at Oracle exposes hundreds of companies & Linux has an embarrassing networking stack bug.
Plus your questions, our answers & a packed round up!
Why the Internet needs it’s own version of cancer researchers, bypassing chip and pin protections & the 2016 Pwnie Awards from Blackhat!
Plus your questions, our answers & much, much more!
How to get an SSL certificate for other people's domains, how to decrypt HTTPS traffic with some javascript & the latest storage reliability report.
Plus great questions & a rocking round up!
We’re in the middle of an epic battle for power in cyberspace & Bruce Schneier breaks it down. PHP gets broken, PornHub gets hacked & the disgruntled employee who wiped the router configs on his way out the door.
Plus great emails, a packed round up & more!
A new vulnerability in many websites, Oracle's Outside In Technology, Turned Inside-Out & the value of a hacked company.
Plus your questions, our answers, a really great round up & much more!
A potential solution to Ransomware, the 15 year bug that cost CitiGroup $7 Million dollars, Dropbox’s new middle out compression & another flaw that affects all versions of Windows.
Plus your questions, our answers, a packed roundup & more!
On this weeks episode we cover a UEFI firmware bug that is affecting computers including ThinkPads, tell you how your windows box can be totally pwned even if it's fully encrypted & talk about the shortcomings of the MD5 checksum. Plus the feedback, the roundup & more!
Project Zero lays into Symantec's enterprise products, the botnet you’ll never find & the poor security of HTML5 video ads.
Plus your questions, our answers & much more!
What’s got Windows admins in a Panic? Total chaos my friends, we’ll tell you why. Extensive coverage of Apple’s new filesystem, Ransomware that might just impress you…
Your great questions, our answers, a packed round up & much, much more!
Why didn’t Apple choose ZFS for its new filesystem? We journey through the long history of ZFS at Apple. Plus how the BadTunnel bug can hijack traffic from all versions of Windows & should we worry about Intel’s management tech?
Plus great questions, a huge round up & much more!
The bloatware shipping on those new computers is way, way worse than you probably thought, Internet exposed printers & the thrilling story of reverse engineering an ATM skimmer. Yes that’s really a thing.
Plus great questions, our answers & more!
Windows exploits for sale at a great price, how the Internet works, yes, seriously & it's awesome!
Plus we solve some of your problems, a great roundup & more!
Is the “Dark Cloud” hype, or a real technology? Using DNS tunneling for remote command and control & the big problem with 1-Day exploits.
Plus your great question, our answers, a breaking news roundup & more!
A typo stops a billion dollar bank hack, a vulnerability in 7zip that might surprise you & the best solutions for secure remote network access.
Your great questions, our answers, a packed round up & more!
Zero-day exploits striking over 100 systems, if you think copying links to bash scripts from the internet is okay, maybe you shouldn't be root & the day Google automated itself off the internet.
Plus your questions, our answers, a huge round up & more!
A critical flaw in that bit of software tucked far far away that you never think about… Until now, we explain why ImageTragick is a pain. More OpenSSL flaws & fraudsters stealing tax data from the motherload.
Plus great questions, our answers, a packed Round up & more!
This week, Chris & allan are both out of town at different shenanigans, but they recorded a sneaky episode for you in which they recap the Target breach, from when the news broke to the lessons learned and everything in between!
This week, the FBI says APT6 has pawned the government for the last 5 years, Unaoil: a company that's bribing the world & Researchers find a flaw in the visa database.
All that plus a packed feedback, roundup & more!
Find out why everyone's just a little disappointed in Badlock, the bad security that could be connected to the Panama Papers leak & the story of a simple delete command that took out an entire hosting provider.
Plus your batch of networking questions, our answers & a packed round up!
Find out about another hospital that accidentally took advantage of free encryption, researchers turn up a DDoS on the root DNS servers & the password test you never want to take.
Plus your batch of networking questions, our answers & a packed round up!
New Ransomware locks your bootloader & makes you pay to boot. Malware with built in DRM? We’ll share the story of this clever hack.
Plus some great questions, our answers, a packed round up & more!
Verizon Enterprise gets breached & the irony is strong with this one, details on the NPM fiasco & why the SAMSAM is holding up the doctor.
Plus some great questions, a packed round up & much, much more!
The theoretical Android flaw becomes reality, a simple phishing scam hits some major companies & why your PIN has already been leaked.
Plus great questions, our answers, a rocking round up & much, much more!
We’ll tell you about the real world pirates that hacked a shipping company, the open source libraries from Mars Rover found being used in malware & Microsoft’s solution for that after-hack hangover.
Plus great questions, a packed round up & much more!
OpenSSL issues a major security advisory, we break down the important details, then go in depth on the real world impact of these flaws.
Plus some great storage and networking question, a packed round up & much, much more!
What’s taking the states so long to catch up to the rest of the civilized world and dip the chip? Turns out it's really complicated, we explain. Plus keeping a Hospital secure is much more than following HIPAA, and an analysis of Keybase malware.
Plus great questions, our answers, and much much more!
A common vulnerability is impacting Firefox, LibreOffice, and others, the 7 problems with ATM security, and the Enterprise grade protection defeated with a batch script.
Plus some great questions, our answers, a rockin roundup, and much much more!
Cisco has a wormable vulnerability in its Firewall appliances, crimeware that allows unlimited ATM withdrawals & the big problem with the Java installer.
Plus great questions, a rocking round up & much, much more!
A new openSSL exploit, cyber security firm Norse implodes & the Windows Hot Potato flaw that’s been around for over a decade.
Plus great questions, our answers, a rockin round up & much, much more!
Since Allan is off being fancy at FOSDEM, we decided that now would be a good time to celebrate the audience & feature some of the best feedback we've had over the years!
The bizarre saga of Juniper maybe finally be coming to a conclusion, details about SLOTH, the latest SSL vulnerability that also affects IPSec and SSH & the attack on the Ukrainian power grid made possible by malware.
Plus your questions with a special theme, a rockin roundup & much more!
A Critical OpenSSH flaw can expose your private keys, a new WiFi spec for IoT devices, that has all the classic issues & Intel’s SkyLake bug.
Plus your feedback, our answers, a rockin’ round up & so much more!
We break down the Bicycle attack against SSL, the story of Brian Krebs’s PayPal account getting backed & the scoop on the Juniper Saga.
Plus some great questions, our answers, a news breaking round up & much more!
We take a look back at some of the big stories of 2015, at least, as we see it.
Plus the round up & more!
It’s a collection of Allan’s favorite moments from TechSNAP past. Plus the week’s new stories in the roundup & much more!
Meet BOOTTRASH the Malware that executes before your OS does, the hard questions you need to ask when buying a security appliance, Project Zero finds flaws in Fireeye hardware.
Plus some great audience questions, a big round up & much, much more!
Bitcoin’s creator has been found again, we’ll cover what the media thinks they’ve figured out & what we really know.
Then, 'In Patches We Trust: Why Security Updates have to get better', a great batch of questions, a huge round up & much more!
The US Government is offering free penetration tests, with a catch, we break down the VTech Breakin & the only sure way to protect your credit online.
Plus great questions, a big round up with breaking news & much more!
A research team finds various ways to attack LastPass, how to use a cocktail of current Android exploits to own a device & hacking a point of sale system using poisoned barcodes!
Plus some great questions, our answers, a rockin roundup & much, much more!
Encryption & privacy took quite a beating this week in the wake of the Paris attacks. We come to its defense. Your ISP heard you like backdoors, so they put a backdoor in your backdoor, the story of the social RAT & more!
The first remote administration trojan that targets Android, Linux, Mac and Windows. Joomla and vBulletin have major flaws & tips for protecting your online privacy from some very motivated public figures.
Plus some great questions, a rockin' roundup & much, much more!
CISA provides no solutions, just new excuses. The new Australian smartcard system is a total disaster & why Google’s URLs are so crazy.
Plus some great questions, our answers, a rockin' round up & much, much more!
TalkTalk gets compromised, Hackers make cars safer & Google plays hardball with Symantec.
Plus a great batch of your questions, a rocking round up & much, much more!
The OpenZFS summit just wrapped up and Allan shares the exciting new features coming to the file system, researchers warn about flaws in NTP & of course we've got some critical patches.
Plus a great batch of questions, a rockin' round up & much, much more!
How the NSA might be breaking Crypto, fresh zero day exploit against Flash with a twist & Keylogging before computers.
Plus a great batch of your questions, a rocking round-up & much more!
Debug mode exposes sensitive data, Cisco’s Talos group exposes the Angler exploit kit & how a Microsoft exposed Conficker with an egg hunt.
Plus some great feedback, a huge round up & much, much more!
D-Link publishes its private code signing keys, exploiting Windows Symbolic Links & why encryption is not sufficient protection.
Plus some great questions, our answers, a rockin roundup & much, much more!
Let’s Encrypt hits a major milestone, F-Secure publishes their investigation into “The Dukes” & we dig into Tarsnap’s email confirmation bypass.
Plus a great batch of your questions, a rocking round up & much, much more!
How Groupon made the switch to FreeBSD & why. Researches extract keys from a hardware module & Intel’s new CPU backed malware protection.
Plus your questions, a great roundup & more!
Red Hat highlights how leaky many open source RSA implementations are, Netflix releases Sleepy Puppy & the Mac is definitely under attack.
Plus some quick feedback, a rockin' roundup & much, much more!
Rooting your Android device might be more dangerous than you realize, why the insurance industry will take over InfoSec & the NSA prepares for Quantum encryption.
Plus some great questions, a fantastic roundup & more!
The real fallout from the Ashley Madison hack gets personal. The Android StageFright patch that doesn’t cover all of the holes, and turning a KVM into a spying appliance.
Plus a great batch of questions, our answers, and a rocking round up.
All that and a heck of a lot more on this week’s TechSNAP!
Lenovo & HP are caught injecting malware even after you format the drive, Ubiquiti Networks is socially engineered out of 46 million & are we entering the era of Security Research Prohibition? We debate.
Plus a great batch of your questions, our answers, a rocking round up & much much more!
Oracle really doesn’t want you to reverse engineer their products but they may have just released the Kraken, we’ll explain.
A massive drop of 35 fixes in one day, great feedback and follow up, a rockin roundup & much, much more!
Adobe is making changes to Flash to mitigate 0day exploits, with help from Google. Chrysler recalls 1.4M vehicles due to a software flaw, we go inside the “Business Club” cyber crime gang.
Plus a great batch of questions, the roundup & more!
SourceForge sees downtime, and we examine their infrastructure, a new pervasive hackgroup has been exposed and their track record is fascinating.
Plus a Hacking Team Round up, a wide variety of audience questions, our answers & much, much more!
The Backronym vulnerability hits MySQL right in the SSL protection, we’ll share the details. The hacker Group that hit Apple & Microsoft intensifies their attacks & a survey shows many core Linux tools are at risk.
Plus some great questions, a rockin' roundup & much much more!
The Hacking Team fallout continues with more zero day patches you need to install, a new attack against RC4 might finally kill it & how to save yourself from a DDoS attack.
Plus a great batch of your questions, our answers & much, much more!
From hacking to hacked, hacking team gets owned & what gets leaked is the best part, we’ll share the details.
Plus, a new OpenSSL vulnerability revealed, Apple tweaks their two factor authentication.. Your questions, our answers & much much more!
Amazon has a new TLS implementation & the details look great, we’ll share them with you. The technology that powers the NSA’s XKEYSCORE you could have deployed yourself.
Some fantastic questions, a big round up & much, much more!
Google’s datacenter secrets are finally being revealed & we’ll share the best bits. Why The US Government is in no position to teach anyone about Cyber Security, how you can still get hacked offline, A batch of great questions, a huge round up & much, much more!
Kaspersky labs has been hacked, we’ll tell you why it looks like a nation state was the attacker, why OPM data is too valuable sell & the real situation with LastPass.
Plus some great questions, our answers & a rocking round up.
All that and much, much more on this week’s TechSNAP!
This week, how hard lessons learned in 1982 could be apply to 2015’s security breaches, hacking for hire goes big & a savage sentient car that needs better programming.
Plus some fantastic questions, a rocking round-up & much more!
The sad state of SMTP encryption, a new huge round of flaws has been found in consumer routers & the reviews of Intel’s new Broadwell desktop processors are in!
Plus some great questions, a huge round-up & much, much more!
Spyware creator mSpy hacked, find out why this breach is particularly egregious, what’s wrong with pcap & why RSA’s death has been greatly exaggerated.
Plus a great batch of questions, a rocking round up & much, much more!
Researches have uncovered a weakness in almost all Internet encryption. We’ll explain what LogJam is, how to protect yourself & what the cause is.
Linux gets bit by a filesystem corruption bug, passport id thieves, a great batch of questions & much, much more!
We explain the Venom vulnerability, what the impact is & the steps major providers are taking to protect themselves.
Plus strategies to mitigate Cyber Intrusions, a truly genius spammer, great questions, a huge round up & more!
Why a stolen healthcare record is harder to track than you might think, Security pros name their must have tools & blame as a service, the new Cybersecurity hot product.
Plus great questions, a huge Round Up & much, much more!
The man who broke the music business, the major downsides to the container culture & yes, they really are trying to sell you Security Snake Oil.
Plus your great questions, our answers & much, much more!
What’s really the key to detecting a breach before its become much too late? We’ll share some key insights, plus a technical breakdown of China’s great cannon & the new New French Surveillance Law that should be a warning to us all.
Plus a great round up, fantastic questions, our answers & much, much more!
Researches find an 18 year old bug in Windows thats rather nasty, we’ve got the details. A new perspective on the bug bounty arms race & the security impact of Wifi on a plane.
Plus great feedback, a bursting round up & much much more!
Is it possible to make a truly private phone call anymore? The answer might surprise you. Cisco and Level 3 battle a huge SSH botnet & how to Build a successful Information Security career.
Plus a great batch of your questions, a rocking round up, and much, much more!
Why boring technology might be the better choice, Google revokes & China chokes, why you want to create an account at irs.gov before crooks do it for you.
Plus your great IT questions, a rocking round up & much, much more!
Reverse Engineering Incentives to Improve Security. New Jersey school district computers held for ransom & the flash bug that lives on from 2011 with a twist!
Plus some great networking questions, drone powered Internet & more!
Microsoft takes 4 years to fix a nasty bug, how to bypass 2 factor authentication in the popular ‘Authy’ app.
Hijacking a domain with photoshop, hardware vs software RAID revisited, tons of great questions, our answers & much much more!
Using encryption is a good thing, but its just the start, we’ll explain. Plus how one developer totally owned the Uber app.
Then it’s a great batch of your questions & our answers!
We’ll break down the technical baggage that led to the new FREAK SSL flaw & the security ramifications of top executives using personal email accounts…
Plus why just need to stop hiding file extensions. Plus some great feedback & much, much more!
Lenovo & Google are victims of DNS hijacking, we’ll share the details, Everyone wants you to secure your data, just not from them & how Turbotax profits from Cyber tax fraud!
Plus a great batch of your questions, a fantastic round up & much, much more!
Lenovo PCs ship with man-in-the-middle adware that breaks HTTPS connections, we’ll break down how this is possible, the danger that still exists & more.
Plus the story of a billion dollar cyber heist anyone could pull off, the Equation group, your questions, our answers & much much more!
A 20 year old design flaw in Windows has just been patched & it requires some major re-working of the software. Attackers compromise Forbes.com & why Facebook’s new ThreatExchange platform could be a great idea.
Plus a great batch of feedback, our answers & much much more!
A new major security breach at a large health insurance firm could expose 10s of millions, a phone phishing scam anyone could fall for & we celebrate our 200th episode with your TechSNAP stories.
Then its a storage spectacular Q&A & much, much more!
The internet of dangerous things is arriving but what about taking care of the devices we already have? We’ll discuss!
Plus details on critical updates from Adobe, the surprising number of Gas Stations vulnerable to exploitation via the internet, your questions, our answers & much, much more!
Adobe has a bad week, with exploits in the wild & no patch. We’ll share the details. Had your credit card stolen? We’ll tell you how.
Plus the harsh reality for IT departments, a great batch of questions, our answers & much much more!
Been putting off that patch? This week we’ll cover how an out of date Joomla install led to a massive breach, Microsoft and Google spar over patch disclosures & picking the right security question...
Plus a great batch of your feedback, a rocking round up & much, much more!
We reflect on the lessons learned from the Sony Hack & discuss some of the tools used to own their network.
Plus a overview of what makes up a filesystem, a run down of the Bacula backup system & much more!
We go inside the epic takedown of SpamHaus, then we break down why CloudFlare’s Flexible SSL is the opposite of security.
Followed by a great batch of questions, our answers & much much more!
We look back at this year in TechSNAP. Allan shares his war stories, TrueCrypt shuts down, Heartbleed happens & more!
More and more data breaches are leading to blackmail but the stats don’t tell the whole story. We’ll explain.
Plus the latest in the Sony hack, and the wider reaction. Plus a great batch of emails & much, much more!
If we could rebuild the Internet from scratch, what would we change? It’s more than just a thought experiment. We’ll share the details about real world research being done today!
Plus we dig through the Sony hack, answer a ton of great question & a rocking roundup!
2014 has been the year of the celebrity bugs, we take a look at the new trend of giving security vulnerabilities names & logos & ask who it truly benefits.
Plus practical way to protect yourself from ATM Skimmers, how they work & much more!