On this week's episode of the podcast I dive deep into the story regarding a major Solarwinds vulnerability exposed by Microsoft and carried by most major news outlets. I also talk about some other security related stories plus some better news like a Cisco acquisition, a Google acquisition and some new features and releases from other vendors. For all of this and more, listen to this episode! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-155-major-solarwinds-hack-new-cisco-acquisition-c...
Dec 17, 2020•26 min
On this week's episode of the podcast I cover a whole lot of security related news including the NSA warning about vulnerabilities in some VMware products, FireEye getting breached and more. I also cover news of an exciting acquisition made by ControlUp plus much, much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-154-controlups-new-acquisition-patch-tuesday-news-farewell-flash-more/
Dec 10, 2020•28 min
On this week's episode of the podcast I cover the announcement from AWS that they now support macOS instances, I dive into a report about a Windows Subsystem for Android and the possibility of packaging Android apps with Android plus much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-153-macos-instances-in-aws-android-apps-in-msix-security-horror-stories-more/
Dec 04, 2020•26 min
On this week's episode of the podcast I dive into reports of a potential acquisition of Slack by Salesforce, I cover some of the information about a recent Out of Band patch, of a cyber attack on one of the biggest sports teams in the world and much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-152-aws-outage-out-of-band-windows-patch-slack-acquisition-more/
Nov 27, 2020•29 min
On this week's episode of the podcast I cover some concerns by those in the security space around Apple's latest macOS version, I talk about Microsoft's ambitious Project Pluton, the official release of WVD's RDP ShortPath plus much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-151-apple-security-concerns-project-pluton-rdp-shortpath-more/
Nov 19, 2020•27 min
On this week's episode of the podcast I cover a whole lot of third party product patching news, the announcement of a Remote Desktop Manager for Linux, Big Sur arrives for macOS users and much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-150-new-macs-and-macos-remote-desktop-manager-for-linux-more/
Nov 13, 2020•24 min
On this week's episode of the podcast I cover details about a second Zero Day patch for Google Chrome within just 2 weeks, I get into info on some Ransomware Attacks on hospitals in the US plus much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode149/
Nov 05, 2020•20 min
On this week’s episode of the podcast I cover a story about one of the worst Ransomware attacks I have ever heard about, I also cover some info on Microsoft Teams growth, Zoom encryption for free tiers plus much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-148-passing-of-a-tech-legend-zoom-encryption-awful-ransomware-story-more/
Oct 29, 2020•17 min
On this week's episode of the podcast I talk a whole lot about Ransomware and data breaches once again! I also talk about a Zero Day in Google Chrome, some of the new features in Windows 10 and much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-147-google-chrome-zero-day-win10-20h2-features-ransomware-robin-hood-more/
Oct 23, 2020•23 min
On this week’s episode of the podcast I give an overview of this month’s Patch Tuesday news, I also dive into multiple stories about Ransomware attacks including one against some ESXi hosts plus much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-146-ibm-to-split-in-two-esxi-ransomware-patch-news-more/
Oct 15, 2020•25 min
On this week's episode of the podcast I dive into some recent phishing campaigns that have been wreaking havoc globally. I also talk a little about the announcement of Google Workspace, a new fraud detection service by F5 Networks and the potential of PVS in Azure plus much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-145-dangerous-phishing-campaigns-google-workspace-disable-ie-gpo-more/
Oct 09, 2020•18 min
On this week's episode of the podcast I cover my personal highlights from the announcements made during VMware's VMWorld 2020 conference, I cover some details on the Office 365 outages that occurred this week as well as some other stories in the industry plus more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode144/
Oct 02, 2020•38 min
On this week's episode of the podcast I cover my personal highlights from the announcements made during Microsoft's Ignite 2020 conference, I get into some Ransomware Stories AGAIN! as well as some other stories in the industry plus more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-143-microsoft-ignite-2020-highlights-zerologon-ramping-up-more/
Sep 25, 2020•31 min
On this week’s episode of the podcast I cover the story of a major vulnerability in Active Directory Domain Controllers that gets a 10 out of 10 on the severity scale. I also talk about updates to the Drive Automation Tool, the acquisition of ARM and much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode142/ Survey for Best Team Name in the 2020-2021 Fantasy NFL: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode142/
Sep 17, 2020•15 min
On this week's episode of the podcast I cover some of the highlights from a very busy Nutanix NEXT Conference. There is also a pretty wild story about Ransomware shutting down Argentinian border crossings as well as much, much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-141-next-conference-highlights-citrix-storefront-vulnerability-patch-tuesday-news-more/
Sep 11, 2020•26 min
On this week's episode of the podcast I get into details about a massive internet outage that reduced traffic by up to 3.5% and likely caused a rough weekend for many IT Pros. I also talk a little more about DNS over HTTPS again but this time about it's adoption into Windows 10 plus much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-140-major-global-internet-outage-doh-in-windows-10-atp-for-android-more/
Sep 04, 2020•22 min
On this week's episode of the podcast I cover some of the info about Application Guard in Outlook to help protect against e-mail attachment related threats, I get into details around the impact of COVID on IT workers and IT Budgets for 2021 plus much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-139-outlook-application-guard-google-chrome-patch-it-budget-projections-more/
Aug 29, 2020•24 min
On this week's episode of the podcast I cover some of the info about Microsoft's August patches, I get into details around this week's announcement of the end of support for 365 apps in Internet Explorer 11, talk some AWS AppStream, Citrix PVS support in the cloud and much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-138-google-service-disruption-ie11-support-to-end-for-365-apps-patch-news-more/
Aug 22, 2020•24 min
On this week's episode of the podcast I talk about a couple of issues caused to Citrix environments by Windows Defender and Sophos anti-virus products, I also get into the new Microsoft Surface Duo phone, a couple of fun security related stories and much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-137-citrix-broken-by-windows-defender-sophos-teams-updater-still-vulnerable-https-milestone-more/
Aug 14, 2020•25 min
On this week's episode of the podcast I cover the strange story of Microsoft's proposed acquisition of TikTok, some details of a recently disclosed Intel data leak, some of the new features in VMware Horizon 8 plus much, much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-136-potential-intel-data-leak-vmware-horizon-8-windows-apps-on-chromeos-more/
Aug 07, 2020•22 min
On this week’s episode of the podcast I cover multiple different stories about Ransomware attacks including the recent disruption caused to Garmin Smart Watch users last weekend. Info on recent updates to WVD, PolicyPak Software, a new managed service from Goliath Technologies and much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-135-ransomware-horror-stories-edge-crashing-appventix-launch-more/
Jul 31, 2020•19 min
On this week's episode of the podcast I cover a couple of Slack related stories including them recently filing a complaint in the EU about Microsoft bundling Teams with Microsoft 365, I also talk about on a Citrix Workspace app vulnerability and get into multiple other stories related to other vulnerabilities out there too plus much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-134-microsoft-anti-competition-accusation-workspace-app-vulnerability-vpn-data-leaks-more/
Jul 24, 2020•19 min
On this week's episode of the podcast I get into details on a major DNS vulnerability that the US Government was insisting on it's agencies patching within 24 hours, I also talk about a new partnership between Microsoft and Citrix plus much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-133-major-dns-vulnerability-global-outlook-issue-tls-cert-change-for-chrome-more/
Jul 18, 2020•21 min
On this week's episode of the podcast I cover many disclosed vulnerabilities including from Citrix and Oracle, as well as an unfortunate update regarding last week's vulnerability disclosure and failed mitigation attempt from F5 plus much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-132-new-citrix-adc-vulnerability-433-vulnerabilities-published-by-oracle-more/
Jul 12, 2020•14 min
On this week's episode of the podcast I cover many disclosed vulnerabilities including from F5 Networks, Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft and more! There's also info on changes to the Windows 10 Start Menu in the latest Insiders Build plus much more. Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/f5-big-ip-vulnerability-ransomware-hitting-macos-users-new-win10-start-menu-more/
Jul 05, 2020•18 min
On this week's episode of the podcast I cover some of my highlights from this week's WWDC, I talk a little about a Windows 10 issue causing crashes and reboots plus info on a couple of Microsoft acquisitions and more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/7980-2/
Jun 27, 2020•14 min
On this week's episode I have a couple of updates on previous stories covered including the issue some were experiencing with launching applications on Windows 10 and the Zoom encryption feature for free version users. I also get into info on this week's assumed DDoS attack plus much more. Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-129-flash-eol-date-announced-change-to-win10-versioning-ddos-that-never-was-more/
Jun 21, 2020•21 min
On this week's episode I cover news relating to Windows patches for June plus patches from the likes of Adobe, Citrix and VMware too. There's some info on a new feature to help improve the batter life of your Mac plus much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-128-lots-of-june-patches-news-better-battery-life-for-macs-more/
Jun 14, 2020•21 min
On this week's episode I cover news of a new partnership between Amazon and Slack, the beginning of the rollout of Edge to Windows 10 users, VMware extends vSphere 6.7 support plus much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-127-amazon-and-slack-team-up-edge-rollout-begins-vmware-extends-vsphere-support-more/
Jun 07, 2020•18 min
On this week's episode I cover news of some issues caused for Windows 10 users by the May Windows Updates, I cover details of an acquisition by Cisco and always I feature some great community scripts, tricks and tips plus much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/7892-2/
May 30, 2020•15 min
