On this week's episode I cover many of the announcements made during the Microsoft BUILD event that was held this week, I get into some of the new security details in Chrome, I talk a little about some new security vulnerability and much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-125-microsoft-build-announcements-storage-supply-issues-new-microsoft-acquisition-more/
May 24, 2020•30 min
On this week’s episode I cover they mysterious disappearance of Slack! My discovery of the amazing joint effort between Microsoft and Intel on Project Stamina, I share details of a new acquisition by VMware which will be sure to increase their security prowess plus much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-124-slack-disappears-microsofts-project-stamina-new-vmware-acquisition-more/
May 17, 2020•21 min
On this week’s episode I cover a vulnerability in XenServer, I get into details on two significant data leaks plus I cover a really interesting interview with the creator of the Love Bug virus on it’s 20th anniversary, as well as much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-123-citrix-hypervisor-vulnerability-controlup-news-love-bug-20th-anniversary-more/
May 10, 2020•17 min
On this week's episode I cover a few quick hits about some third party patches for April 2020, I get into details on G Suite's enrollment for Windows 10 devices and talk about the exciting acquisition of CloudJumper plus much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-122-sign-into-windows-w-g-suite-account-3rd-party-patch-news-wfh-struggles-more/
May 03, 2020•22 min
On this week’s episode I covered info on a slew of issues caused by a recent Windows 10 patch in v1903 and 1909. There’s some interesting statistics on VPN usage, details of a new Google remote access feature and much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-121-windows-10-update-issues-google-remote-access-edge-milestone-more/
Apr 25, 2020•14 min
On this week's episode I run through some of the big security vulnerabilities patched in the April Windows Updates, I also discuss the changes to GitHub, the fact Droplet Computing's ChromeOS support goes GA and much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-120-april-patch-tuesday-github-goes-free-windows-app-containers-for-chromeos-more/
Apr 18, 2020•13 min
This week's episode features info on Zoom tackling some of the security concerns raised by the community and it's users. I cover stories of Coronavirus related phishing attempts and targeting of work from home users, there is some good news from Microsoft with significant changes to Azure Active Directory capabilities for a large number of customers, there are also many community scripts and tips featured plus much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-119-zoom-rights-some-...
Apr 11, 2020•18 min
This week’s episode features info on a patch that has been released to the Windows Update Catalog to address some issues being experienced with VPN products on Windows, I also follow up on a previous story about a Windows Zero Day that will not be patched until this month’s Patch Tuesday but is now said to have a mitigation as a temporary workaround, I also get into Zoom’s rough week and much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-118-windows-zero-day-mitigation-bad-week-for...
Apr 05, 2020•16 min
This week's episode features info on a couple of newly exposed Windows Zero Day vulnerabilities, I also share some details on the release of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 2003 plus more information about COVID-19's continuing impact on enterprise IT including significant delays to product release roadmaps and much more. Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-117-windows-zero-day-cvad-2003-released-further-covid-19-impact-more/
Mar 28, 2020•16 min
This week’s episode features a lot of info on newly disclosed vulnerabilities in Trend Micro products, a brief discussion about the departure of Bill Gates from Microsoft’s board of directors and much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-116-visual-basic-deprecated-major-trend-micro-vulnerabilities-virtual-synergy-more/
Mar 22, 2020•20 min
This week's episode features a lot of info on newly disclosed vulnerabilities including some from AMD, an issue with Microsoft's RDCMan, issues patched with the March patches and much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-115-amd-vulnerabilities-smbv3-vulnerability-citrix-public-cloud-support-change-more/
Mar 12, 2020•15 min
This week's episode features a lot of info on how the Coronavirus has been impacting enterprise IT thus far, there's news about some significant vulnerabilities, particularly with Cisco WebEx and Intel processors that are 5 years old or older. There's some great FSLogix related community content plus much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-114-coronavirus-hitting-enterprise-it-cisco-webex-vulnerabilities-tmedit-update-more/
Mar 07, 2020•15 min
This week's episode features news of a Microsoft patchin' EoL version of Internet Explorer, a preview of print server management in Azure, Apple putting lifetime certificates on their naughty list and much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-113-microsoft-patchin-eol-products-again-print-servers-to-the-cloud-more/
Feb 28, 2020•14 min
This week's episode features news of a Windows Update pulled from the catalog by Microsoft. There's some really interesting predictions shared by Cisco around networking trends for the next 3 years. I provide an update on cloud.com being blocked in China and much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-112-microsoft-pulls-a-patch-doh-to-the-rescue-cisco-predictions-more/
Feb 21, 2020•18 min
This week's episode features news on issues on the February 2020 Windows patches, info on a fix to a strange issue with published application on Windows Server 2019, an interesting story about the worrying Corp.com domain that is up for grabs and much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-111-feb-patches-overview-corp-com-for-sale-published-app-issue-on-server-2019-more/
Feb 14, 2020•18 min
This week’s episode features news on issues with a Windows 10 patch causing BSODs for some users plus other issues like slower boot times for others, there’s also news on a Teams outage and what the cause was (It was not DNS). As well as info on MSIX, Citrix WEM, recent Ransomware and Trojan samples plus much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-110-teams-outage-win10-woes-ldaps-delay-more/
Feb 08, 2020•22 min
This week's episode features news on the unfortunate layoffs at VMware, info on changes at IBM with a new CEO announced, details of a security breach at the UN, an update on the Windows 7 issue caused by the final patches plus much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-109-layoffs-at-vmware-new-ibm-ceo-un-security-breach-more/
Feb 01, 2020•15 min
This week's episode covers the worrying story that 250 million customers details were left publicly exposed for 25 days. There is also info on issues caused by the final Windows 7 patches, an brief update on the Citrix ADC vulnerability, a warning for those upgrading Citrix WEM and much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-108-microsoft-security-lapse-issue-with-final-win7-patches-more/
Jan 24, 2020•16 min
This week’s episode goes deep into the Citrix ADC vulnerability leaving no stone unturned in what is now the 5th week of this ongoing saga and boy did things escalate this week! I also talk about a very serious RDP vulnerability that has been patched this week, along with a CryptoAPI vulnerability that warranted a press conference and warning from the NSA Cyber Security Team AND news on App Volumes 4.0, MSIX support for services plus much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episo...
Jan 17, 2020•21 min
This week's episode covers a story from Microsoft warning that their cloud services do not work properly in the upcoming Chrome version 80 release and warn that other sites and services you use may not work also. I cover another horrible tale of Ransomware with a little bit of Malware thrown in for good measure. As usual, there's some great scripts from the Community to talk about plus much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-106-chrome-80-could-break-sites-ransomware-clo...
Jan 10, 2020•20 min
This week's episode is the first of 2020 and it marks the 2 year anniversary of the podcast. It seemed fitting to do a review of 2019, talk about some of the trends in the industry as well as talk about remote work opportunities highlighted on the podcast and a dive into some of the best scripts, tricks and tips from the last year. I also cover some of the recent enterprise IT news as usual as usual! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-105-2-year-anniversary-the-weeks-news-2019...
Jan 05, 2020•35 min
This week’s episode is pretty security heavy with an update on the major Citrix ADC vulnerability I talked about on last week’s episode plus vulnerabilities in Google Chrome, Sharepoint and more. I also talk a little about MSIX Core, ThinKiosk as well as feature the usual scripts, tricks and tips of the week plus more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-104-major-citrix-adc-vulnerability-update-msix-core-release-more/
Dec 28, 2019•15 min
This week's episode covers a lot of security related news including details of a Citrix ADC vulnerability and available mitigation steps, a couple of scary Ransomware stories plus a lot of info on December patches plus much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-103-mail-storms-zero-day-vulnerabilities-ransomware-oh-my-plus-much-more/
Dec 18, 2019•21 min
This week's episode covers a lot of security related news including details of a VPN vulnerability, a Mac malware concocted by North Korean hackers and an absolute nightmare scenario for parents of diabetic kids who fell victim to a serious service outage. This plus plenty of EUC related announcements and MORE! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-102-vpn-vulnerability-nightmare-service-outage-new-igelos-features-more/
Dec 12, 2019•22 min
This week's episode dives into the troubling news that there is a major bug in some HPE SSDs that will kill the drives and make the data inaccessible. I also report on a Y2K like bug with Splunk that could cause serious problems for admins of the product. AWS ReInvent was held this week in Vegas and as you may expect there were plenty of announcements, I'll share some of the highlights plus there will be much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-101-hpe-ssd-timebomb-splunk...
Dec 05, 2019•20 min
This week's episode is the 100th episode of the podcast! Thank you so much for listening each week. It's business as usual with lots of news, including information on the launch of the MSIX AppAttach preview, details on a recent Office 365 outage and it's cause, warnings of a new wave of ransomware, some FSLogix performance improvements and much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-100-msix-appattach-preview-office-365-outage-ransomware-warning-more/
Nov 27, 2019•26 min
On this week's episode I talk about another bad patch for Windows 10 that was released on November's Patch Tuesday. There is an update on the proposed acquisition of HP. Details on why Chrome stopped working in Citrix environments plus much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-99-chrome-breaks-in-rdsh-cisco-voip-vulnerabilities-much-more/
Nov 19, 2019•23 min
On this week's episode I cover worrying news of Windows Servers crashing with a recent Symantec Endpoint Protection definition update, a pretty serious encryption vulnerability in Apple mail, rumors of a potentially big acquisition and news on the acquisition of Docker Enterprise plus much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-98-symantec-endpoint-protection-crashing-servers-docker-acquisition-much-more/
Nov 14, 2019•21 min
On this week's episode I talk about some of my highlights from the many announcements made at Microsoft Ignite and VMworld Europe plus I give a brief news roundup about some of the other things going on in enterprise IT this week plus more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-97-highlights-from-microsoft-ignite-vmworld-europe-2019-much-more/
Nov 06, 2019•35 min
On this week's episode there is an update on Microsoft's recent MFA disruption, info Incognito mode for Google Maps, a lot of info for the next LTSR of CVAD and some info on an Adobe database that was exposed online plus much more. Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-96-cool-new-microsoft-atp-feature-google-maps-incognito-mode-citrix-ltsr-info-more/
Oct 31, 2019•12 min