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Don Pezet and friends cover a whirlwind of tech topics each week from interviews with industry experts and up-and-coming companies to commentary on topics like security, vendor certifications, networking, and just about anything IT related.
Don, Dan & Sophie kick off this week's episode with some Microsoft news: the tech giant is pulling the plug on WordPad, as well as making some of their certification exams open book! In other tech news, we finally have an answer to the age old question: is a carrier pigeon faster than the internet? Moving on to security news, the FBI dismantles Qakbot - but not before it took millions in ransom. LogicMonitor customers fall victim to hackers due to default passwords. And to wrap up the show: an unknown attacker gives free Sourcegraph access to the masses.
Join Don, Daniel and Sophie as they discuss the latest tech news. This week, the team talks about Microsoft's announcement for Python in Excel, and Dropbox following in Google’s footsteps to limit storage for users. In security news this week, a ransomware attack caused a cloud storage company to restart from the ground up and a transnational gang turned out to just be two teenagers in London. Tune in to hear all that and more on this week’s Technado!
Don, Dan, and Sophie are back with more tech news and outdated references! The team kicks off the show with some Microsoft news: a Windows feature is resetting system clocks at random and wreaking havoc. In Linux land, Debian turns 30 years old! To wrap up the first half of the show, the team talks about microchipped cheese - Parmigiano-Reggiano, to be exact. Sophie looks back on her time at Black Hat 2023, then the Technado team jumps into security news. A WinRAR flaw that's activated by opening an archive, Google's first quantum resilient FIDO2 key, and an easily-bypassed Apple malware flagging tool are all in the spotlight this week.
Don and Sophie are back alongside Daniel for this week's episode of Technado! To kick off the show, the Windows 365 Switch has entered public preview, and three of Red Hat's biggest rivals are taking on RHEL with their own Open Enterprise Linux source code repo. In cloud news, Zoom executives are under fire for their statements on using Zoom calls as AI fodder. Then, the Technado team jumps into some wild security news: the founder of LolekHosted is on the lam, the UK government assures us their websites are NOT malicious scams, and a Belarusian government-backed hacking group was caught spying on embassies.
In this video Daniel is taking the reins with guest hosts Wes Bryan and Anthony Sequeira as they discuss everything from Amazon selling unsupported Chromebooks to Hackers using new AI tools to hear keystrokes! Sit back and enjoy!
Don, Dan, and Sophie kick off this week's episode with some updates in cloud news. First, Newegg has a new ChatGPT plugin that helps you plan your PC build, and AWS plans to charge for public IPv4 addresses in 2024. Then, in hardware news, Infineon has plans to offer a water-soluble PCB. The team also discusses a severe bug in AMD CPUs, two serious Linux vulnerabilities, and a new Windows exploit in this week's security news segment.
This week on Technado, the team covers Samsung's newest memory chip. Then, we take a look back on last week's Microsoft security fiasco, as well as the long-awaited Cyber Trust Mark IoT security labeling program. In security news, Google is restricting internet access to some of its employees, and there's a new OpenSSH patch to look out for. Finally, Zyxel is under fire due to a recent high-severity vulnerability.
Microsoft is Rebranding Azure AD? | Technado Ep. 317 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don, Dan, & Sophie kick off this week’s episode with a riveting discussion on the Barbenheimer phenomenon. Then, they jump into the real tech news: even more changes are coming to Linux distros, Intel is ending its investment in the NUC business, and Microsoft Azure AD undergoes a pretty surprising transition. In security news, ChatGPT’s weird cousin WormGPT is in town. Then, a look at Apple’s most recent rapid security response (and rescindment). Finally, the team introduces a brand new Technado segment.
In this episode, Don is back alongside Daniel and Sophie to discuss the latest. This week in tech news, companies like Meta can now transfer personal data from the EU to US-based companies to the dismay of some privacy advocates. The team also covers Ubuntu ditching its minimal install option and Red Hat disappointing Linux users everywhere. In security news: Cisco deals with a high-severity bug, JumpCloud resets API keys due to a mysterious "ongoing incident," and hackers target nuclear scientists through Mac malware. Lastly, there's an update on the FTC v. Microsoft lawsuit you won't want to miss.
In this episode Daniel, Sophie, and Anthony helm the ship while Don is away. Tune in as they discuss all the biggest tech news of the week, such as Google asking devs to promise they won't abuse new Chrome API, Brave browser aiming to curb websites that port scan visitors, updates with deep fake scams, and finally Sony's big sharpie oopsie! Sit back and enjoy!
Catch up on the cybersecurity and tech news of the week with Dan, Sophie, Anthony, and Arnold Schwarzenegger?? as they cover the latest. This week in tech, Apple releases patches for actively exploited flaws in iOS, macOS, and safari, Chinese hackers using never-before-seen tactics for critical infrastructure attacks, Eight teams of hackers will compete to breach U.S. satellite in space, and Australia tells you to turn your phone off every night for five minutes! Sit back and enjoy!
Catch up on the cybersecurity and tech news of the week with Don, Dan and Sophie as they cover the latest. This week in tech, Microsoft began selling repair parts for out-of-warranty Surface devices, Twitter users shared a ChatGPT hack to get free working keys for Windows programs, and Comcast told the FCC that new regulations that require reporting their fees plainly to customers are too difficult to comply with. In security news this week, Microsoft blamed a DDoS attack for users being unable to use several of their services, Fortinet patched a bug that likely allowed hackers to hijack equipment, and a Russian threat group breached Ukrainian government email servers.
Catch up on the cybersecurity and tech news of the week with Don, Dan, and Sophie as they cover the latest. This week in tech, Microsoft made developer betas free for all to download and install, Western Digital sparked anger over premature age warnings on some of their hardware and Ubuntu 18.04 general support ended, but there’s still hope for its users. This week in security news, BBC, BA and Boots were issued blackmail by a Russia-based cybercrime gang, and new MOVEit vulnerabilities are being revealed, and even more organizations are coming forward as victims. Finally, in Dejanews, security company Barracuda is telling customers affected by a recently disclosed zero-day flaw in its Email Security Gateway appliances to replace them immediately.
Catch up on the cybersecurity and tech news of the week with Don, Dan, and Sophie as they cover the latest. This week in tech, Apple announced its new OS system with updated capabilities for gamers, Apple announced its transition to Silicon is complete, an all-snap Ubuntu desktop will be available next year, and the team discusses the top features in the Windows 11 May 2023 update. In security news this week, the WordPress security team is force-installing a security patch on millions of its sites. In our “Doh!” segment this week, a Redditor raised an issue with a URL that was previously printed on Maryland license plates, inadvertently causing untold numbers of the public to advertise for a casino based in the Philippines. Finally, in “Who Got Pwned” this week, IT Security company Barracuda Networks patched a months-old vulnerability, revealing that it had been exploited since October to install Malware on some networks.
This week on Technado, Daniel and Sophie are joined by special guest Wes Bryan. They start off by covering all the news from Microsoft Build 2023 including new Windows 11 features, Windows Copilot, as well as other new products and features. Then the team discusses how the cameras on Microsoft’s Surface Pro X stopped working. Then to end the show, they talk about how an analyst at Infosec pleads guilty to blackmailing his employer.
Don, Daniel, and Sophie are all back this week to discuss the latest tech news. To start off the show they discuss a botched Asus update that caused routers to go offline worldwide. Then, they talk about failing SanDisk Extreme SSD cards, a faulty printer update from HP, a new KeePass flaw, and the Dark Web’s version of ChatGPT named DarkBERT. To end the show, the Technado team covers an article about how the new .zip domain could possibly be a cybersecurity risk.
Catch up on the cybersecurity and tech news of the week with familiar face Daniel, along with special studio guests Ronnie Wong and Anthony Sequeira as they cover the latest. This week in tech, users discovered that Microsoft has begun scanning previously private zipped folders for malware, spelling potential trouble for security analysts, and the latest PCIe 5.0 update is making SSD heat sinks and coolers seem more like a necessity than an optional upgrade. Wrapping up this week's coverage is a never-before-seen mashup of our Deja News and Behind Bars segment as we revisit an article we covered two years ago, ending in serious jail time for an ex-Ubiquiti engineer.
Catch up on the cybersecurity and tech news of the week with Don, Dan, and special guest Wes Bryan as they cover the latest. This week, Microsoft announced that all web links opened from Teams or Outlook will open automatically in Microsoft Edge, regardless of the user’s default browser settings. In “Who Got Pwned?” this week, MSI did not pay ransom to the ransomware group that hacked them in April, resulting in the leak of Intel OEM private keys, and OpenAI, the creator of popular AI machine ChatGPT, confirmed a second data breach was responsible for the app recently going offline, thus sparking a larger conversation about security and AI. In Deja News, Uber’s Ex-security chief was sentenced to prison for 3 years and received an order of 200 community service hours after he purposefully covered up a data breach in 2016. Finally, we wrap up this week’s episode with a special treat as Wes Bryan tells us all about his experience and the news going around the RSA conference.
This week on Technado Sophie, Don, and special guest Anthony start off the show with an article about Microsoft ending support for Windows 10 in 2025. Next, they talk about how Google Cloud suffered an outage in Europe, how Meta Reality Labs lost almost 4 billion last quarter, how SSD uses AI to protect your data, and how researchers are now advising against the new 2FA account syncing from Google. Finally, they discuss Apple using iOS and macOS Rapid Security Response features for the very first time.
Rundown:
Microsoft Is Ending Windows 10 Updates (cnet.com)
Google Cloud suffers outage in Europe amid water leak, fire (The Register)
Meta's Reality Labs lost $3.99 billion last quarter, bringing its total losses since 2020 to $30 billion (TechSpot)
SSD Uses AI to Protect Your Data From Ransomware Attacks (tomshardware.com)
Google leaking 2FA secrets – researchers advise against new “account sync” feature for now (sophos.com) Apple uses iOS and macOS Rapid Security Response features for the first time (Ars Technica)
Catch up on the cybersecurity and tech news of the week with Don, Dan, and Sophie as they cover the latest. This week in tech, users reported Ryzen motherboards were bulging as they failed due to heat, Ubuntu has released its newest Linux distribution version called Lunar Lobster, and Google has simplified two-factor authentication for all its users. In security news, Proton launched a new end-to-end encrypted password manager. In this week’s “Doh!” segment, arstechnica shared that used routers can often be used to obtain sensitive information about the previous user. Finally, in “Deja News,” a nesting-doll-style supply chain attack was implemented against 3CX.
Catch up on the cybersecurity and tech news of the week with Don, Dan, and Sophie as they cover the latest. This week in tech, Microsoft began beta testing a change for the print screen key function. Microsoft also continued growing its Linux distribution, and it may have a major win in its future as Samsung is reportedly considering using Bing over Google as its default search engine. In security news, LinkedIn stepped into the future by rolling out new secure identification features. In this week’s “Who Got Pwned?” segment, motherboard maker MSI acknowledged a breach in their system as they issued an alert about rogue firmware. Finally, in “Deja News,” the hackers who breached Western Digital systems are claiming they have vast information, including customer info, and are demanding a large ransom in return.
Catch up on the cybersecurity and tech news of the week with Don, Dan, and Sophie as they cover the latest. This week in tech, Microsoft is beta testing a taskbar workaround that allows users to bypass the task manager program to shut down applications, a blogger discovered a Bitcoin easter egg left behind in Apple’s MacOS systems, and Cisco revealed in a financial report that as its organization was exiting Russia, it destroyed $23 million in equipment. In security news, for our “Doh!” segment, multiple vulnerabilities with Nexx devices were discovered that allow hackers to gain access to smart home systems like doorbells, alarms, and garage doors. In this week’s “Who Got Pwned?” segment, Western Digital’s My Cloud went offline after hackers gained access to its systems. Finally, for Tinfoil Hat, the FBI warned consumers about “juice jacking”, where criminals infect mobile and other devices through publicly available charging stations.
Catch up on the cybersecurity and tech news of the week with Don, Dan, and Sophie as they cover the latest. This week in tech, the team covers a ground-breaking article about Ubuntu that isn’t what it seems. In Cloud news, Amazon has opened Sidewalk, its slow but far-reaching data network, for free public use. A new privacy-focused browser called Mullvad was released this week based on the Firefox browser. In security news, Microsoft began previewing its Security Copilot, an AI-powered cybersecurity defense tool. Two North Carolina residents were arrested after cutting over 2,000 fiber optic cables, cutting internet access for over 40,000 people. Finally, in this week’s “Who Got Pwned?” segment, a supply chain attack targeting Windows and MacOS users of the communication desktop client 3CX was detected by multiple security firms, and it was revealed that 3CX knew it had been flagged as malware for a week without taking action.
Catch up on the cybersecurity and tech news of the week with Don, Dan, and Sophie as they cover the latest. This week in tech, Microsoft began previewing an updated version of Teams with a new client, Microsoft announced it will be improving the way default apps are selected, and Google discloses CentOS Linux Kernel vulnerabilities after CentOS failed to fix them. In security news, journalists at several Ecuadorian news outlets were targeted by explosives designed to look like USB drives. For our “Doh!” segment, GitHub had to re-publish SSH keys after accidentally publishing private keys. Finally, in this week’s “Who Got Pwned?” segment, Windows, Ubuntu, and VMWare Workstation were all hacked on the last day of Pwn2Own, a hacking contest offering hundreds of thousands of dollars in prize money to the winners.
This week the team celebrated the 300th episode of Technado. During the show, Don, Daniel, and Sophie look back at how the podcast began, cover some tech news, hear from fans and former guests of the show, and more. Thank you for helping us hit 300 episodes!
Catch up on the cybersecurity and tech news of the week with Don, Dan, and Sophie as they cover the latest. This week in tech, a data startup secured funding to build a data center on the moon, various Chinese graphic card brands started selling on mainstream platforms in the US, and GPT-level-3 AI models can now be run on laptops, phones, and even a Raspberry Pi. In security news this week, our tinfoil hat article is all about AI-generated Youtube videos promoting info-stealing malware. In this week’s “D’oh!” segment, a flaw in the Bitwarden autofill feature potentially exposes passwords to hackers. Finally, in “Who Got Pwned?”, data protection company Acronis was infiltrated by a hacker who claimed he just wanted to humiliate them.
Catch up on the cybersecurity and tech news of the week with Don, Dan, and Sophie as they cover the latest. This week in tech, it’s all about Microsoft as it begins force-installing its Defender app on Windows 10 and 11 users, AI-powered Bing Chats showed up in Windows 11 taskbars, and Mac users no longer need a paid Microsoft 365 subscription to use Outlook. In security news this week, BlackLotus became the first malware to bypass Secure Boot. In this week’s “Who Got Pwned?” segment, Dish Network employees and customers were kicked offline by a likely cyber-attack. Finally, in Behind Bars, suspects likely from the ransomware family known as DoppelPaymer were arrested in Germany and Ukraine along with their equipment.
Catch up on the cybersecurity and tech news of the week with Don, Dan, and Sophie as they cover the latest. This week in tech, Microsoft rolled out a feature to dissuade users from using Windows 11 on unsupported CPUs, Ubuntu flavors will no longer support Flatpak installs out-of-the-box, and VMware’s Bitnami began packaging apps for Arm CPUs. In security news this week, Dutch police apprehended 3 hackers involved in the theft and extortion of tens of millions of people’s data. In this week’s “Who Got Pwned?” segment, media conglomerate News Corp revealed that the hackers responsible for its 2022 breach had been in the system since early 2020. Finally, in Deja-News this week we talk about LastPass once again, but this time it’s a new breach. A LastPass employee's home computer was hacked, resulting in a decrypted company vault being compromised.
Catch up on the cybersecurity and tech news of the week with Don, Dan, and Sophie as they cover the latest. This week in tech, Microsoft created support for users running Windows 11 on Macs, and Microsoft’s email customers were reporting inboxes flooded with spam despite email filtering. Meanwhile, Linux dropped systemd 253, introducing a new tool to create Unified Kernel Image (UKI) files. This week in cybersecurity, Microsoft is patching 76 security issues in Windows and OS components, sounding the alarm that some are already being exploited. And finally, in this week’s “Who Got Pwned?” section of the show, GoDaddy revealed that the same group of hackers had access to their networks for 3 years, even though each breach had been detected, and the Scandinavian Airlines website was hacked, compromising the personal information for some customers.
Catch up on the cybersecurity and tech news of the week with Don, Dan, and Sophie as they cover the latest. This week, Asus placed the Promontory 21 chipset on a PCIe card, Microsoft is planning to replace Edge’s PDF reader with Adobe Acrobat, and Microsoft removed Internet Explorer from most Windows 10 PCs on February 14th, 2023. In cybersecurity news, Apple has a new zero-day flaw, Wyze security cameras and home monitoring were offline for two hours, and hackers breached Reddit to steal source code and internal data.
Catch up on the cybersecurity and tech news of the week with Don, Dan and Sophie as they cover the latest. This week, Microsoft made long-anticipated updates to their Defender program, Samsung hinted at a solution for the infamous 990 Pro Firmware issues, and Amazon released their plans for S3 security changes coming in April. In cybersecurity news, the Linux variant of Clop Ransomware has surfaced, Finland’s most wanted hacker was arrested in France, and flags were raised about the potential for ChatGPT to be used to create sophisticated malware.
Catch up on the tech news of the week with Don, Dan and Sophie as they cover the latest. This week, Apple introduced OS updates that include hardware security key support, Ubuntu announced that the pro version of the OS is available for up to 5 machines, and used Macbooks in excellent condition are being turned into scrap metal. In this week’s “Doh!” segment, Github was hacked, with hackers getting away with valuable assets. Then, in our “Who Got Pwned?” segment of the week, the US has announced their successful hacking of an infamous cyber-crime gang. To top it all off, the Technado crew discusses that unlike a fine wine, the LastPass breach just keeps getting worse with age.
This week Sophie and Daniel are joined by special guest Ronnie Wong as they discuss the tech news for the week. They start off the show by talking about Intel’s new thunderbolt (which has an insane transfer speed), then they discuss the end of Windows 10 and the massive Microsoft layoffs. Then they jump into a Don’t Make No Sense segment about the MSI motherboards that have secure boot turned off. In this week's Doh! segment, the team talks about a Massachusetts school having its lights on for over a year. Finally, they end the show by discussing the T-Mobile data breach that affected millions of customers.
This week Don and Daniel start off the show by welcoming a new host, then they discussed the end of Microsoft’s Surface Duo, the F.A.A.’s damaged database files, Wi-Fi 7, and Intel’s new innovative processor. In this week's Doh! segment, the team found out that 89% of the US Department of the Interior’s high-value assets didn't use multi-factor authentication. Lastly, in this week’s Deja News segment, they talk about the CircleCI breach where hackers stole customers’ secrets.
There was so much discussion about LastPass in the comments that Don and the crew answered some of the questions about the breach. Then, with CES wrapping up last week, the team looked at the best IT hardware to come out of the event like the Asus 3D Vivobook, Lenovo's latest Yoga book 9i, Lenovo's Tab Extreme, and MSI's router with smart antennas. In other news, they covered an update to Apple's butterfly keyboard saga, Amazon encrypting S3 buckets by default, and CircleCI suffering a catastrophic compromise.
The Technado crew is back for 2023 and spent some time digging into the LastPass latest from all angles. Is your data safe? Should you switch providers? How did this happen? But first, the team covered a change in Mozilla's Firefox user agent, a medical practice sending out a terminal diagnosis instead of a Christmas greeting, and a tech worker who got caught trying to emulate the crime from the movie Office Space.
It's the most wonderful time of the year, and that means it's time to look back at the best of Technado in 2022. In this special holiday episode, Don and Daniel make their 2023 predictions before Peter quizzes them to see how well they remember the articles they covered over the past 12 months. Spoiler alert - not that well.
Anthony Sequeira joined Don and Peter this week to take a look at the newest concept laptop from Dell with no screws or wires. In other news, the team covered GitHub sunsetting Atom, NIST retiring SHA-1, Chinese hackers exploiting a zero-day in Citrix gear, and a scam that cost a Canadian city almost half a million dollars. Finally, in tinfoil hat time, the guys debated whether a keylogger or a bug is behind some creepy behavior on Corsair keyboards.
Security researchers have figured out how to get around a web application firewall with a new technique that impacts several vendors. The Technado crew discussed that and Microsoft adding features to compete with Discord, updates to the snipping tool in Windows 11, support ending for Windows 7 and 8, and an update on the Raspberry Pi supply chain issues. Finally, they talked about a Fortinet bug allowing pre-auth remote code execution and what to do about it.
You'll be able to encrypt your Dropbox files soon, thanks to their acquisition of Boxcryptor. The Technado team discussed that as well as browsers yanking the TrustCor root certificate, Hive social going dark after a hack, Samsung's Android app-signing key leaking, and the discovery of a Florida state tax website vulnerability. Finally, in 'Deja News,' they discussed the latest with the LastPass breach and what that means for customers.
Good luck supporting your Huawei and ZTE hardware, as the US FCC bans imports of their products. The Technado team covered that as well as Intel launching a pay-as-you-go model, Epson scrapping laser printers, snooping concerns at computer repair shops, and Microsoft's report on US energy grid hacking efforts. Finally, the crew discussed the EU parliament declaring Russia a terrorism sponsor only to have their site hacked. Who could've seen that coming?
Fresh off the announcement of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7 last week, RHEL 9.1 is now out as well as AlmaLinux 9.1. In other news, the Technado team covered Microsoft Teams adding sign language support features, VMware Fusion supporting Apple silicon Macs, WSL hitting a stable release, and Iranian hackers hitting a US government agency with the Log4Shell exploit. Finally, they talked about a person who hid a knife inside a laptop and was caught by TSA.
Where have all the Raspberry Pis gone? The Technado team discusses the inventory issues and updates this week as well as Windows Defender coming to iOS and Android, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7 launching, a Google Pixel lock screen bypass, and the LockBit ransomware arrest in Canada. Finally, they talk about how worried the US Army should be about Russian code in their iOS app.