Adam Durrah, the Director of Intelligence for Vigilante, joined Technado this week to talk about what sets Vigilante apart in the threat hunting world. In “What Grinds my Gears,' he shared his frustrations about the tone of misinformation and disinformation campaigns, before using his insight on Russia’s hacking prowess to weigh in on the SolarWinds sage in ‘Deja News.’ Then, in other news, the team looked a Framework’s new modular laptop, Fry’s Electronics going belly up, Microsoft cutting Wind...
Mar 04, 2021•55 min
Rita Gurevich from SPHERE Technology Solutions joined the team this week to tell the story of why she started the security assessment and remediation services company. She also vented about cloud security in the ‘What Grinds My Gears’ segment. In the news, the guys tackled Western Digital’s new WD Green SSD launch, HPE releasing SSD replacements for 10k RPM HDD server drives, an aggressive sales tactic from Canonical based on Ubuntu VMs on Azure, a novel software supply chain vulnerability that ...
Feb 18, 2021•52 min
ITProTV’s newest edutainer, Kathy Chambers, was this week’s guest on Technado to talk about the new audit courses she’s hosting. She also played ‘Virus or Gibberish,’ where the panel tried to guess if something was a real virus or made up based only on its weird name. Trojan Panda Banker, anyone? In the news, the crew looked at Google Cloud’s big revenue losses in 2020, Ubuntu 21.04 switching to Wayland, Raspberry Pi OS adding a Microsoft repository that phones home, and Google booting The Great...
Feb 11, 2021•59 min
The CTO and founder of PathSolutions, Tim Titus, joined the Technado team this week to discuss the trouble with troubleshooting. In a new segment, What Grinds my Gears, he vented about inaccurate reporting and how it can frustrate network technicians. Then, in the news, the guys talked about Microsoft rolling out Application Guard for Office365, a warning from cable ISPs to heavy uploaders, OneDrive’s new 64-bit version, a decade-old Sudo bug that can lead to root-level access in Linux, and the ...
Feb 04, 2021•53 min
This week, Mark Kedgley from New Net Technologies (NNT) was the guest on Technado to talk about NNT’s Change Tracker for catching suspicious behavior on your network. He also talked about a medical records breach discovered in 2019 that is still exposing PII in this week’s Deja News segment. In other news, the guys discussed Red Hat’s no-cost RHEL option, the uncensorable Web on the Brave browser, Tucows closing its downloads site, DDoSers taking advantage of Microsoft RDP, and SonicWall being h...
Jan 28, 2021•47 min
On this week’s Technado, the guys were joined by Preston Duren of Fortified Health Security. Preston talked about the unique challenges facing healthcare IT, as well as the things about MSSPs that ‘mildly irritate’ him. In the news, the team discussed the origins of AWS, Apple’s privacy labels impacting Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, a Ubiquiti security breach, and an Nvidia warning about graphics driver flaws. Finally, in the WTF segment, they looked at the cybersecurity fallout from the Capi...
Jan 14, 2021•58 min
For the first episode of 2021, Technado welcomed ACI Learning’s Brett Shively who talked about the state of adult learning and the recent merger with ITProTV. Then, the team discussed how some tech businesses are evolving by exiting Silicon Valley and even taking over shopping malls. In the news, they looked at Slack starting the year with an outage, Brexit’s mention of Netscape and Mozilla Mail, Linus Torvalds rant about Intel and ECC, Dell’s new automated webcam shutter, and a team that turned...
Jan 07, 2021•50 min
It’s the final episode of 2020, so what better time than to look back at the year that was on Technado with Don Pezet? In this episode, Don, Daniel, and Peter are joined by their old teammate, Justin, as they look back at their highlights of the year. Each of them shares their favorite guest as well as their favorite news article from the past 12 months.
Dec 31, 2020•51 min
As 2020 nears a close, it’s time for an annual Technado tradition: trying to guess what the heck is going to happen next year. In this episode, Don and Peter are joined by Adam and Wes to predict what the big hardware of 2021 will be, as well as the buzzword of the year. Also in this episode, Peter tries to get back at Don for laughing at his mispronunciations of tech terms throughout the year by quizzing him and the others on the meaning of IT acronyms. And finally, they look at one last news s...
Dec 24, 2020•37 min
Rohit Sethi from Security Compass joined the Technado team this week to talk about their platform to drive secure application development. Then, in Deja News, he gave his opinions on the new IoT cybersecurity law. In other news, the crew reported on the google services outage, Cloudflare and apple collaborating on a new internet protocol, CentOS Linux 8 shifting to CentOS Stream, new security measures for Microsoft 365, and the big nation-state attack on Solarwinds that FireEye discovered.
Dec 17, 2020•53 min
This week on Technado, Adi Dar from Cyberbit came on to talk about the importance of real-world cybersecurity training and shared how his company’s cyber ranges can help. He also led a discussion about the effect Covid-19 has had on the cybersecurity workforce. Then, in the news, the team looked at an overhauled interface and CarPlay integration for Microsoft Teams, AWS targeting Microsoft’s SQL, the Salesforce acquisition of Slack, security issues facing devs in Docker, and a breathtaking zero-...
Dec 10, 2020•44 min
On this week’s Technado, the team was joined by Microsoft Cloud Solutions Architect Jeff Mitchell. After learning about his career path, Jeff shared some cool innovations with Azure enterprise-scale landing zones for cloud migrations. In the news, the crew covered a prolonged AWS outage, Microsoft’s Pluton security chip, Linus Torvalds’ thoughts on the Apple M1 hardware, a 2FA bypass flaw in cPanel, and a hacker selling credentials for C-level executives.
Dec 03, 2020•46 min
Dan Cornell from Denim Group joined Technado with Don Pezet this week to talk about their ThreadFix platform for security program management. He also vented about the misnomer that developers don’t care about security. Then, in the news, the crew discussed the FCC taking spectrum from the auto industry and giving it to Wi-Fi, a ChromeOS alternative called Ubuntu Web Remix, the worst passwords of 2020, a security hole and sketchy patch for TCL TVs, and a spearphishing attack on GoDaddy employees.
Nov 26, 2020•50 min
TProTV’s newest Edutainer and resident ITIL whiz Chris Ward joined Technado to talk about his upcoming courses like HVIT. He also shared his worst IT nightmare where an exploding transformer taught him a lesson about redundancy. In the news, the team looked at the new M1 processor-equipped computers from Apple, some issues related to Big Sur and Mac apps, Yubico’s first foray into biometrics, a bug in Ubuntu Gnome that gave users root access, and a former Microsoft engineer’s sentencing after a ...
Nov 19, 2020•50 min
Sticking with the CertNexus theme, Director of Certifications Lindsay Bachman joined Technado to talk about what goes into making a brand new certification. She also spoke about the power of adding certs and degrees for job seekers. Then, in the brand new segment ‘News from Captain Obvious,’ the team was shocked to hear Ransomware gangs don’t always delete your data like they promise. In the news, they covered an Arm CPU monster targeting Intel and AMD, Windows updates clocked by Thunderbolt iss...
Nov 12, 2020•49 min
Salt Security’s Roey Eliyahu joined Technado to discuss one of the most vulnerable things security teams often overlook: APIs. They dissected an API issue at Uber that left accounts open to attack. Then, in the news, the guys covered Vint Cerf’s plan for Internet in space, Microsoft throttling availability of their October 2020 Windows 10 update, Ubuntu’s Groovy Gorilla, and a group of hackers stealing from the rich and giving just a little to the poor. Finally, in the run-up to the US elections...
Oct 29, 2020•49 min
Symmetry Systems’ Mohit Tiwari joined Technado this week to talk about his journey from university professor to start-up CEO. He explained the company’s focus on data store and object security before sharing his worst IT nightmare with the group. In the news, the team looked at a cyberattack that affected online classes in Massachusetts, Microsoft’s role in taking down the TrickBot botnet, VS Code coming to Raspberry Pi and Chromebook, VMWare’s ESXi Arm edition, and Apple paying out more than a ...
Oct 15, 2020•52 min
The new CISO at NetEnrich, Brandon Hoffman, was this week’s guest on Technado, where he discussed the role of the SOC in a company’s security strategy. He also shared his take on a new worm phishing campaign in the segment “Who Got Pwned.” After the break, Don and Daniel dissected Microsoft’s explanation for their Azure AD outage in “Deja News.” Finally, they talked about new x64 emulation that will help Windows on ARM, AT&T shelving DSL, OWC’s new Thunderbolt 4 hub, and leaked Windows XP co...
Oct 08, 2020•49 min
Microsoft MVP and Nerdio CTO Bas van Kaam joined Technado this week to talk about all things cloud. He also helped the crew breakdown the major Microsoft Office 365 outage. In other news, the team looked at how an old TV took out a Welsh village’s broadband for 18 months, the drop in Firefox’s usage compared to their CEO’s compensation, the new Red Pro and Purple drives from Western Digital, a corporate phishing test that backfired, and a major cyberattack affecting UHS hospitals.
Oct 01, 2020•53 min
In this episode of Technado, Balaji Parimi from CloudKnox joined the crew to talk about staying secure across multiple cloud providers. He also discussed a study that shows that large cloud providers are less likely to be breached. In other news, the team talked about Microsoft’s Linux kernel update, the quality of Walmart’s Gateway computers, an FBI report about credential stuffing attacks on banks, the Zerologon attack, and how much IoT traffic is from a single botnet.
Sep 24, 2020•54 min
This week, Technado welcomed back an old friend, Corey Thuen from Gravwell, to tell us all about their Big Bang product launch. Corey also talked about some of the unique ways people are using Gravwell to analyze their data. In other news, the team discussed Nvidia’s $40 billion acquisition of ARM, and debate how much they’d sell one of their arms for. Then they looked at Yubico’s new USB-C Yubikey, the resurfacing of Microsoft’s underwater data center experiment, Gartner’s hot takes on AWS, Azu...
Sep 17, 2020•52 min
Heather Paunet from Untangle joined the Technado crew this week to talk about how organizations can develop the best cyber security possible while still meeting budgetary restraints. She also added her expertise to a discussion on the recent Twitter hack and the role working from home may have played. In other news, the team looked at the new Fedora ThinkPad laptop from Lenovo, Western Digital getting creative with how they define RPM, a proposed ‘911’ for security flaws, Apple’s approval of not...
Sep 10, 2020•50 min
What do you do when you create a groundbreaking network monitoring tool? You post the source code on GitHub and Reddit for all the world to use. This week’s guest, Costa Tsaousis of Netdata, tells the Technado crew about the nightmare that led him to create the product and why he chose to go open source. Then, in the news, the team discussed a US plan to invest $1B in AI and quantum computing, a breakdown of the CenturyLink/Level(3) outage, why a Microsoft Teams Retention Policy is so important,...
Sep 03, 2020•50 min
If you want to talk Python, you can’t go wrong with Python Software Foundation Fellow and host of two Python podcasts, Michael Kennedy. After discussing his podcasts, Python Bytes and Talk Python To Me, Michael played a game of ‘Python, Python, or Python,’ where he and the panel guessed if headlines were about snakes, programming, or Monty Python. In the news, the team talked about the viability of a new password generator called DiceKeys, Ubuntu backporting WSL 2 to earlier Windows builds, a Ch...
Aug 27, 2020•58 min
Want to live in a world without passwords? This week’s podcast guest, Shahrokh Shahidzadeh from Acceptto, came on to talk about how it’s possible with continuous behavioral authentication. He also shared his perspective on the launch of Dropbox’s new password manager. In the news, the crew discussed Amazon’s new quantum computing service, Braket, Microsoft’s efforts to add transparency in Windows 10 updates, an exploit targeting Apache Struts Surfaces on GitHub, newly released speed tests from S...
Aug 20, 2020•50 min
It’s two for one this week on Technado, where the team talks to both Sam Rubin of The Crypsis Group and John Prisco from Quantum Xchange. After surviving a hurricane last week, John came on to talk about Quantum Xchange’s growth since we last spoke, as well as a newly-released DoE blueprint for a quantum internet. But first, Sam’s security expertise helped the guys breakdown news including a leak of passwords for 900+ enterprise VPN servers, scam browser extensions that made it in the Chrome Web...
Aug 13, 2020•55 min
With a hurricane bearing down on our scheduled guest, the Technado team decided to focus on more news in this week’s episode. First, in “Who Got Pwned,” the crew discussed the difficulties Garmin had trying to pay their ransom. Then, in “Behind Bars,” they looked at the updates to the Twitter breach that saw 2 Florida teenagers in custody. In other news, they talked about the death of Cortana on iOS and Android, a recently patched Zoom exploit, and a new tool to detect shadow admin accounts in A...
Aug 06, 2020•41 min
Ben Brennan stopped by Technado this week to talk about how his company’s QSTAC data can improve the quality of IT teams as well as his book, Badass IT Support. Then, the group discussed how IT workers are like flat earthers. In the news, the panel looked at the reorg at Intel, a supercomputer collaboration between Nvidia and the University of Florida, how masks are messing with facial recognition, and a multi-day ransomware outage at Garmin. Finally, they look at the implications of a security ...
Jul 30, 2020•50 min
Since we’re focusing on CompTIA this month on Technado, we decided to go right to the source and speak with Dr. James Stanger. He talked about all things CompTIA, from the changes they’ve seen from COVID-19 to the growing emphasis on security. Then, he helped the team dissect the high-profile Twitter breach from earlier in the week in the “Who Got Pwned” segment. In other news, the Technado crew looked at the Cloudflare outage, Google pushing back on Microsoft’s Chrome RAM reduction, the latest ...
Jul 23, 2020•52 min
Getting a CompTIA cert is a big accomplishment. Getting all of them? That’s podcast-worthy. In addition to holding all the current CompTIA certifications, this week’s guest Lee McWhorter is also the CTO of Covered 6, a security training firm focussed on veterans. After an interview, Lee helped breakdown ‘Who Got Pwned’ due to home routers riddled with flaws and running unpatched Linux. In other news, the Technado team discussed Intel’s Thunderbolt 4 specs, Fedora’s approval of Nano as the defaul...
Jul 16, 2020•54 min
