Technado

In this Technado, Lynn Dohm from Women In Cybersecurity, or WiCyS, came on to talk about the importance of diversity in the industry. She also talked about the wider issues affecting the cybersecurity workforce during the current staffing shortage. In the news, the crew covered Microsoft beefing up protection on certain accounts, the latest MacOS breaking Dropbox and OneDrive syncing, Apple paying a record bug bounty, and the latest Windows vulnerability. Finally, in 'Tin Foil Hat Time,' they shared a story about an IT worker that wasn't the one who interviewed for the job.

Turja Chaudhuri, Ernst & Young's new Assistant Director of Cloud Practice, joined Technado this week to talk about adopting cloud practices and the importance of a multi-cloud setup. He also shared his origin story and how he's now mentoring aspiring cloud engineers. In the news, the guys broke down Microsoft's move to 'one Outlook,' a backdoor in AccessPress themes for WordPress, and a spooky Dark Souls 3 exploit. In 'Who Got Pwned,' they covered two stories about the unfolding situation in Ukraine: Hacktivists shutting down the rail system in Belarus, and a warning to US organizations of possible retaliatory hacks from Russia.

Chris Cain from Keysight Technologies, a leading manufacturer of testing and measurement devices, joined Technado this week to talk about some of the impressive applications of their products. He also shared how engineering students can remotely learn on lab equipment. In the news, the team covered Chrome limiting access to private networks, the public Pi-hole Adhole shutting down, Scammers using fake QR codes on parking meters, and Malware attacks on Ukraine's government. Finally, in Behind Bars, they discussed Russia's takedown of the REvil ransomware gang. It's about time!

A business email compromise (BEC) could cost your company millions, so what are you doing to prevent it? In this episode, Ronnie Tokazowski shares his firsthand knowledge of BECs and what his company, Cofense, is doing to prevent them. Then, in the news, the guys covered Lenovo's ThinkBook Plus Gen 3 two-screen laptop, Microsoft's first Pluton-powered machines, Canon defeating its own DRM, and an open-source developer sabotaging his own apps. Finally, in Tin Foil Hat Time, they theorize on why desk phones are sending data to China.

It's the first episode of the new year, and the team welcomed Paul Deur from ReadyWorks to talk about automating large enterprise transformation projects to help secure businesses. Paul also shared his company's origin story to highlight just how important automation can be for IT teams. In the news, the guys covered Dell's new repairable Luna laptop concept, a magnetic wireless webcam from Dell, Lenovo's vulnerability that allowed admin privileges, a university in Japan accidentally wiping 77TB of research data, and SEGA Europe's security snafu. Finally, in WTF, they discussed 'anti-5G' necklaces that were found to be radioactive.

We made some big predictions at the end of 2020, but were any of them right? In this special episode, we cap off 2021 by looking back at how those predictions aged as well as making some guesses for 2022. Then, we end the year with a game of 'Classic Computer or Military Aircraft?' It was as weird as it sounds.

Jason Hicks, who recently joined Coalfire as a Field CISO and cybersecurity executive advisor, sat down with the Technado team to talk about his new role. He also shared his predictions for the AppSec industry in 2022. Then, the guys discussed last week's AWS US-EAST-1 outage, mouse movers for sneaky remote workers, SIP phones adding Microsoft Teams support, and the Log4j Log4Shell zero-day. Finally, in WTF, they talked about the racist blockchain record tied to McDonald's McRib NFT.

Emmanuel Iroanya, the Founder of Theta., joined Technado this week to talk about his vision to bring equity to technology. He also shared how the "built to last" concept isn't the right approach for software development. Instead, he says it should be "built to change." In the news, the guys covered Amazon launching EC2 M1 Mac instances, AWS rolling out private 5G, Microsoft Edge adding financing options, a threat actor running hundreds of Tor relays, the ransomware attack on Planned Parenthood, and a former tech worker charged in an insider data breach.

This week's guest Rob Rastovich isn't only the CTO of ThingLogix, but he's also a cattle rancher. Rob shared how he's using IoT tech to make the ranch moo-ve forward, as well as some of the recent innovations in the IoT world. In the news, the crew discussed Germany's regulations for slow ISPs, AWS updating their Linus distro more often, Intels secret cybersecurity warehouse in Costa Rica, and Linux malware hiding in Cron jobs. Finally, in 'That Makes no Sense,' they tried to unravel why adversarial image attacks are no laughing matter.

Idan Cohen, Co-founder and CEO of Reflectiz, joined the crew to share how they detect website vulnerabilities and threats. He also discussed the risks of third and fourth-party code. In the news, the guys covered the Windows 10 21H2 release, Apple's move to let you fix your own devices, and Twitter stopping AMP support. Then two groups were pwned last week, with GoDaddy exposing WordPress data and Firefox users sharing login cookies on GitHub. Oops.