This week on Technado, Don, Dan, & Sophie cover Microsoft's announcement regarding third-party printer drivers. Then, they look at some new ceramic nano technology that promises to turn the storage business on its head. Before heading to break, the team takes a look at this year's Top Programming Languages from IEEE Spectrum. To kick off the second half of the show, the Technado crew revisits Microsoft's email breach fiasco and talks about what went wrong (hint: everything). Then, in this we...
Sep 14, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 325
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: ...
Sep 07, 2023•59 min•Season 1Ep. 324
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!
Aug 31, 2023•58 min•Season 1Ep. 319
Don, Dan, and Sophie are back with more tech news and outdated references!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 openin...
Aug 24, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 322
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...
Aug 17, 2023•57 min•Season 1Ep. 321
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!
Aug 16, 2023•56 min•Season 1Ep. 320
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.
Aug 03, 2023•51 min•Season 1Ep. 316
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.
Jul 27, 2023•56 min•Season 1Ep. 318
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 Tec...
Jul 25, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 317
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 scienti...
Jul 13, 2023•54 min•Season 1Ep. 316
In this episode, join Daniel, Sophie, and Anthony as they 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!
Jul 06, 2023•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 315
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!
Jun 29, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 314
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 ...
Jun 22, 2023•52 min•Season 1Ep. 313
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 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 re...
Jun 15, 2023•55 min•Season 1Ep. 315
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 sit...
Jun 08, 2023•51 min•Season 1Ep. 311
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.
Jun 06, 2023•52 min•Season 1Ep. 310
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.
May 25, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 309
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...
May 19, 2023•40 min•Ep. 308
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 Ch...
May 12, 2023•59 min•Season 1Ep. 307
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 firs...
May 04, 2023•47 min•Season 1Ep. 306
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 ...
Apr 27, 2023•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 305
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 w...
Apr 20, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 304
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,...
Apr 13, 2023•55 min•Ep. 300
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 cybersecu...
Apr 06, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 302
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!
Mar 30, 2023•57 min•Season 1Ep. 300
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 ou...
Mar 30, 2023•48 min•Season 1Ep. 301
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...
Mar 16, 2023•54 min•Season 1Ep. 299
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 Netwo...
Mar 10, 2023•51 min•Ep. 298
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 “W...
Mar 08, 2023•50 min•Ep. 297
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, soundin...
Feb 23, 2023•40 min•Season 1Ep. 296
