https://youtu.be/J0yl1xcVV68 Being a slow news week for the average person, we decide to talk about Defcon, and all the great things that went on there. In other news Blab.im has shut down, so we had to go back to Youtube video. Hopefully the quality is there. We will eventually have a bitcoin address here if … Continue reading "Security 124 – Post Defcon"

Lastpass had some bugs found, but as soon as they were found, they were fixed. NIST deprecates 2FA via SMS, and what is password haystacks Notes: Labs.dectectify.com Password Haystacks NIST declares the age of SMS-based 2-factor authentication over

We decide to talk about something we have very little knowledge about. We talk about Milo Yiannopoulos getting actually banned from twitter. While not the main topic, the topic of verified accounts, and would that actually help or be a net positive.   This is not on YouTube because hangouts apparently can’t publish to youtube … Continue reading "Security 122 – Twitter Verification"

We once again have to deal with the issue that antivirus for most people is useless. At the best case, it may help, but in the average case it slows down your computer. In the worst case, it actually adds viruses and malware to your computer.

Tom and I talk all the time about Linux, but we never discussed it. In fact, I just throw out the term Linux, but have no idea what it means. Hopefully, Tom a good overview in thirty minutes. (I took the audio from Blab)

We cover the news of the week: OEM software and the need to start fresh on any new machines LinkedIn data breach is still a problem Teamviewer hack allows hacker to control your computer and… Tom goes all crazy on Keepass I’m going to try and edit it, but we had issues with the … Continue reading "Security 119 – TeamViewer, LinkedIn, and Keepass"

The question we hear all the time is “What laptop for college should I buy?” We are going to try and tackle it. It is not an easy question, but we think we can hit the big points in the next thirty minutes

We talk about the Google offerings that were shown at I/O. While happy that Google got around to offering encryption, we were not thrilled.

So Chaim gave a Tedx talk yesterday. We decided to expand further on the topic. I recommend downloading the episode. The video has horrible audio. Since we record separately, I was able to make it much better.

This week the news of who the inventor of BitCoin is. We don’t buy it. Brazil shuts down WhatsApp again because of encryption. The House passes a bill unanimously. Show notes are in the WhatsApp group. Comment, or find us to get access. @inthirty, @chaimtime, @samurailink3