Honesty Is The Worst Policy Episode: 68 Published: 8/8/2023 Microsoft: ���Honesty Is The Worst Policy��� There���s a critical flaw with the Power Platform Microsoft publishes two blogs detailing the malicious campaign of the Storm-0558 Group Microsoft expands cloud logging for Purview Audit to include premium level for all customers Wiz publishes blog claiming MSA key extends beyond OWA and outlook.com Senator Ron Wyden from Oregon writes a formal letter of complaint to CISA, the AG, and the FTC...
Aug 08, 2023•32 min•Ep. 71
Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 003 Published: 8/3/2023 Tech News for the Week of 8/3/2023 How might AI take over Hollywood? Let us count the ways For a long time there have been foreign language versions of hollywood movies AWS Starts Charging for Public IPv4 Companies are setting up cloud services for private AI instances for quite the pretty penny FCC Updating Their Broadband Internet Standard to Match Reality Intro and outro music by Ned Bellavance copyright 2022...
Aug 03, 2023•13 min•Ep. 70
Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 002 Published: 7/20/2023 Tech News for the Week of 7/20/2023 Broadcom Moves One Step Closer To BroadWare Microsoft���s Acquisition of Activision is Finally, Finally, Probably, Happening InfluxDB Deletes Data Too Soon, Thinks People Read Their Emails Worthless Coward Elon Musk Thinks Another Company Is A good Idea Intro and outro music by Ned Bellavance copyright 2022...
Jul 20, 2023•10 min•Ep. 69
Hyper Prologue Log Episode: 67 Published: 7/18/2023 HyperLogLog - Just About The Greatest Name For An Algorithm That I Think Is Even Possible HyperLogLog A sorting visualizer in case this kind of thing is your bag, baby There���s a paper out there that proposes HyperLogLogLog HyperBitBit If you are truly curious, read this paper from Google Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022...
Jul 18, 2023•31 min•Ep. 68
Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 001 Published: 7/13/2023 Tech News for the Week of 7/10/2023 AI Fails At Writing Gizmodo Stories, Because Of Course It Does JumpCloud Leaps Into Action Facebook Launches Twitter Clone - It���s Super Effective! Privacy Policy Comparison from Ars Technica IDC Says Public Cloud Is Winning The Race Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022...
Jul 13, 2023•9 min•Ep. 67
Microaggressive Licensing Episode: 66 Published: 7/11/2023 Red Hat Open Source Ex-Pat Causes Big Spat Several prominent open-source people like Jeff Geerling have roundly denounced Red Hat���s latest licensing strategy The kernel was developed and is still maintained by Linus Torvalds GPLv2 license, which requires that derivative products made available to the public must also make their source code freely available on request JBoss, CoreOS, Gluster, and StackRox all have their source code freel...
Jul 11, 2023•44 min•Ep. 66
Thirty-Six GigaToasters Episode: 65 Published: 7/4/2023 Security Field Day 9 Wrap-Up Security Field Day 9 Home Page Noname Security Commvault Threatwise NetAlly CyberScope HashiCorp Boundary Cisco 4200 Firewalls Cribl Stream Lightning Round Microsoft Rebranding Yammer as Viva Engage Red Hat, Once Open Source���s Biggest Success Story, Continues To Turn It���s Back On The Movement Where Should You Park Your Domain After Google Domains Selloff? ChatGPT Can Now Use A Browser To Get Data Newer Than ...
Jul 04, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 65
Just Disappointed Episode: 64 Published: 6/27/2023 CISA says to Federal agencies that they���re tired of these Monkey-Fighting security configuration aches, on these Monday to Friday management planes! Binding Operation Directive from CISA BrightTalk presentation that goes over the latest version (version 2.0) They have a ���Cyber Hygeine��� program that any given company can sign up for, for free Censys put out their 2023 State of the Internet report and quoted a number of 8,000 public facing m...
Jun 27, 2023•44 min•Ep. 64
Sometimes You���re The Problem Episode: 63 Published: 6/20/2023 OpenStack - or The Future That Almost Was and Somehow IS? The biggest complaints around running OpenStack An article by Jeffrey Burt on The Next Platform points out The OpenStack Big Tent Lightning Round Intel Dives Into Quantum Realm (again,) With 12 Qubit CPU Based on Old Tech Microsoft Overwhelmed By Massive DDoS MoveIt Supply Chain Hack Keeps Collecting New Victims - This Time It���s the Energy Dep���t Major AWS Outage in US-EAS...
Jun 20, 2023•42 min•Ep. 63
Cher: The Cheez-It of Pop Episode: 62 Published: 6/13/2023 Hyperautomation, or a topic I picked specifically because I thought the title would make Ned mad The antikythera mechanism These computers were actual human beings They were called knocker-uppers Hyperautomation defined by Gartner Lightning Round Lotus Eaters Continue To Bask In The Glory Of Domino Barracuda Announces The Worst Security Breach of the Year- So Far Fake Cryptocurrency Scam Sites Pervade The Web Timewasting Site Of The Mome...
Jun 13, 2023•44 min•Ep. 62
The Algorithm Made Me Do It Episode: 61 Published: 6/6/2023 Cloud Field Day 17 Wrap-Up Cloud Field Day 17 in beautiful Boston, MA HYCU is focus on SaaS backup RackN orchestrates bare-metal infrastructure Couchbase offers managed DBaaS in multiple clouds Lightning Round Microsoft Announces Cortana Taking A Backseat In Windows UI Google Cloud is sending friend requests to AWS and Azure Def Con Attendees Will Have An Opportunity To Hack A Real Satellite- In Space Azure DevOps Outage Proves That Typ...
Jun 06, 2023•51 min•Ep. 61
Lying To Itself And Others Episode: 60 Published: 5/30/2023 Microsoft Build and Red Hat Summit News At IBM���s Think event earlier this year, they created the new brand of watsonx Sign Up Page for Ansible Lightspeed Based on a cursory reading of their documentation, Red Hat AI is a rebranding exercise AI was splashed all over every product in Microsoft���s portfolio You could just watch a keynote summarization video that condenses three hours down to about 10 minutes Dell and Nvidia are collabor...
May 30, 2023•43 min•Ep. 60
New Ways To Do Things Wrong: RSA Conference 2023 Episode: 59 Published: 5/23/2023 RSA 2023: I didn���t go, so you don���t have to either! There were at least 333 scheduled events coverint 25 discrete topics that took place at RSA 2023 Some of the topics and sessions from RSA 2023 are starting to be available on YouTube The Simple Yet Lethal Anatomy of a Software Supply Chain Attack Lightning Round EU Does Their Best Dr. Evil To The Tune Of $1.3B Lawsuit Alleges DoorDash Charges iPhone Users High...
May 23, 2023•43 min•Ep. 59
Squiggly Red Lines: Adventures in WiFi 7 Episode: 58 Published: 5/16/2023 WiFi 7 Is Coming For Your Children WiFi 7 Standard 802.11 Standards in general WiFi 7 Overview TP-Link WiFi 7 Lightning Round Google Still Struggling To Recover From Zone Outage In Paris A Shocking New Attack Overpowers Servers Literally Microsoft-Activision merger Approved By EU Microsoft Signs On to Make Datacenter Fusion a Reality YouTube video from Real Engineering Elon Announces New CEO- And It���s Not Sheryl Sandberg...
May 16, 2023•44 min•Ep. 58
Moar AI Goshdarnit Episode: 57 Published: 5/9/2023 The Robots Are Coming For Our Jobs Can GPT4 replaces writers? ChatGPT has given better results than humans to people asking medical questions to a hospital help chat Deep Learning famously helped epidemiologists with reading lab results and detecting breast cancer That time scientists beat a computer that was literally the best in the world at Go by playing Go extremely stupidly There are people who are using AI and deepfakes to trick users into...
May 09, 2023•51 min•Ep. 57
Regular Mario Can���t Jump: The State of IPv6 in 2023 Episode: 56 Published: 5/2/2023 State of IPv6 in 2023 IPv5 was a failed attempt to support voice over IP at the protocol layer According to Google, 43% of traffic was using IPv6 Bahrain and India top out the countries adopting IPv6 at 100% and 67.5% respectively RIPE labs IPv6 report indicates that IPv6 readiness and usage actually dropped in the last year AWS announced general availability of IPv6-only subnets and EC2 instances Calico, for e...
May 02, 2023•56 min•Ep. 56
Leo The Angry Penguin: A Malware Cautionary Tale Episode: 55 Published: 4/25/2023 A True (enough) Story of One Company���s Adventures in Almost Going Bankrupt Because of Malware 2022 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report Lightning Round Cloud Outage Insurance is a Real Thing You Should Probably Have Microsoft to Change Functionality of Print Screen Button to Just Open The Snipping Tool Bard AI Sings a Song of Misery and Woe Cold Fusion- er, I mean, Sodium-Ion Batteries, Set To Make It To Pro...
Apr 25, 2023•49 min•Ep. 55
An Oddly Shaped Cloud: Flexera State of the Cloud 2023 Episode: 54 Published: 4/18/2023 How is Cloud Doing These Days? Flexera releases its state of the cloud report Andy Jassy’s Stockholder Letter Lightning Round Google CEO Warns About Unknown Impacts Of AI, Pitches Some Decent Ideas CodeWhisperer is the Creepiest AWS Product Name Yet Qualcomm Designing new iSIM, Meant To Replace eSIMs, Which I Didn���t Know Needed Replacing Alas Intel Server, I Barely Knew Ye Apple���s India iPhone Plants Put ...
Apr 18, 2023•50 min•Ep. 54
Know Thyself Jellyfish: OWASP API Security Top 10 Countdown Episode: 53 Published: 4/11/2023 OWASP releasing an update to the API Security Top 10 Updated API Security Top 10 List According to HackerOne, after websites themselves, APIs are the number two attack vector on the internet In November of last year, Twitter was hacked utilizing an API vulnerability that was only feasible using automation Lightning Round Product that lets you open your garage door over the internet ��� you guessed it Tik...
Apr 11, 2023•45 min•Ep. 53
Electoral College of My Emotions: AI is a Stupid Parrot with a God Complex Episode: 52 Published: 4/4/2023 AI is a Parrot with a God Complex A.I. is B.S. by Adam Conover Forrest Brazeal has a think about AI Ben Thompson on AI Heavy Strategy: ChatGPT is coming for your job On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots Moratorium on LLM and AI development Lightning Round Microsoft announces a new Teams client with a LOT of AI WiFi Standards Aren���t Standard Enough The Humble Barcode celebrates it���s 50th...
Apr 04, 2023•50 min•Ep. 52
Anniversary Kitten BBQ: Biometrics for all the wrong reasons Episode: 51 Published: 3/28/2023 Biometric Authentication going mainstream for all the wrong reasons Panera Bread announced that they are rolling out biometric identification system as a part of their loyalty program Windows Hello was hacked back in 2021 with security researchers being able to fake a USB camera, feed Hello an image, and get Hello to unlock Amazon is closing the Go at a pace Amazon was also sued in New York City for ina...
Mar 28, 2023•43 min•Ep. 51
Soft Shell Nachos: Cybersecurity Starts in the Home Episode: 50 Published: 3/21/2023 Cybersecurity Starts in the Home Ransomware had what Tech Target calls a breakout year in 2022 Set of best practices for home network security from the NSA Lightning Round FinTech is hard enough for humans to understand - lets bring in AI! Encryption at rest? Bah, try encryption in-use. Government is trying to ban TikTok again.. EFF is actually against it Samsung Exynos is extra insecure Rolls-Royce to build moo...
Mar 21, 2023•53 min•Ep. 50
Red-Teaming Barbados: Our National Cybersecurity Strategy Episode: 49 Published: 3/14/2023 The National Cybersecurity Strategy The actual strategy document More on DIDs from episode 26 We have known for years that it���s humans that make up the biggest risk to any of these systems Lightning Round We are not going to cover SVB United Kingdom���s Online Safety Bill Set To Completely Destroy Security And Privacy Online Advertising Company Google Killer Reader 10 Years Ago Facebook Developing A Mast...
Mar 14, 2023•49 min•Ep. 49
The Bad Boy of Martha���s Vineyard: Addressing the Cloud Repatriation Fervor Episode: 48 Published: 3/7/2023 Cloud Repatriation, or the art of two things being true at once The Cost of Cloud, A Trillion Dollar Paradox AWS growth rate from statista GCP has slowing growth over increasing revenue since at least 2017 Starting with Equinix, their revenue is a comparatively tiny $7.26B for 2022 Digital Realty revenue in 2022 was $4.69B and their growth is actually shrinking over the last two years HPE...
Mar 07, 2023•51 min•Ep. 48
Mega Chad GPT: Taking Umbrage at Ubuntu Snap Strongarm Episode: 47 Published: 2/28/2023 Ubuntu is Strong Arming other Distros Into Using Proprietary Canonical���s Snap Program for Package Installation Ubuntu pushing out flatpak Snap, while ostensibly open source, is completely controlled by Canonical Canonical is pushing their own product even harder by strongarming other Ubuntu-based distributions into not providing flatpak by default Ubuntu has actually lost mindshare over the past decade Ligh...
Feb 28, 2023•48 min•Ep. 47
Larry���s Fun Dip: Exploring SBOMs For Fun And Profit Episode: 46 Published: 2/21/2023 What���s An SBOM Anyway? An example calculator application only has four dependencies listed in its package.json file We���re looking at about 200 required modules to build K8s Log4shell, in particular, forced developers to evaluate hundreds or thousands of applications The organization that has worked to define what is included in an SBOM is the National Telecommunications and Information Administration The N...
Feb 21, 2023•52 min•Ep. 46
Gourmet Grey Goo Episode: 45 Published: 2/14/2023 AI: or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the inevitable death of civilization at the hands of our robot overlords Talking to AI Might Be the Most Important Skill of This Century Mens Journal started using AI to create articles. They contained ���serious errors and plagiarism,��� forcing an embarrassing retraction We literally still don���t understand human self-awareness, either philosophically or neurologically Watson also never made a pr...
Feb 14, 2023•47 min•Ep. 45
The Hellscape Abides Episode: 44 Published: 2/7/2023 RISC-V is a Safe Bet A good example provided by Stamford of RISC vs. CISC There are 81 integer operation instructions alone in the x86 spec Intel���s failed attempt to ditch the x86 instruction set with the RISC-based Itanium RISC-V is an open-source ISA You can view the entirety of the instruction set on GitHub right now The history of RISC-V’s inception is pretty interesting Debate on proprietary versus open instruction sets One such RISC-V ...
Feb 07, 2023•56 min•Ep. 44
Shiska Bobby Tables Episode: 43 Published: 1/31/2023 The State of Privacy 2023 2023 State Of Privacy Report Considering the absolute plethora of security breaches that involved PII loss over the past year or so We have known for years that yearly training is not enough to cause long-term changes in security and privacy behavior One that was particularly outrageous was Home Depot Canada H&R Block did it too The Radiolab episode about Null Lightning Round Web3 Company Raises $10M Because Reaso...
Jan 31, 2023•54 min•Ep. 43
A Young Warthog Episode: 42 Published: 1/24/2023 IT vs. OT - Battle of the Century! Edge is not a thing(���) in the same vein as Supercloud Let���s go over the high level goals outlined by NIST Lightning Round Now They Want AI Lawyers? What���s The Worst That Could Happen? Vulnerable Historians that aren���t Chris Annnd The AI-Generated Art Lawsuits Have Arrived Twitter App I Never Used Rendered Useless Craig Hockenberry, the creator of Twitterific, published a blog post called ���The Shit Show�...
Jan 24, 2023•55 min•Ep. 42
