Technado

PowerShell, I am your father. That’s right – Jeffrey Snover, the father of PowerShell was this week’s guest on Technado. We talked about where the original idea came from, as well as what he’s working on now at Microsoft. He also responded to some mean tweets from the haters. In the news, the team discussed the new Caddy Web server, an update to Google Authenticator for 2FA, Xiaomi’s data leak, and how favicons can hide malicious code.

The Technado with Don Pezet team is celebrating Powershell all this month, and what better way to kick it off than with ITProTV Edutainer Mike Rodrick? Mike talked about all the new features in PowerShell 7 and how they compare to previous versions. In other news, the panel discussed the new 13-inch MacBook Pro, the Windows 10X release plan, Backblaze’s slashing of S3 prices, and a zero-day exploit in the Sophos firewall.

Chris Morales is the Head of Security Analytics at Vectra, and joined the podcast this week to talk about incident response and threat management programs. He also discussed an interesting research report on privileged access. In this week’s Who Got Pwned, the team looked at Nintendo accounts being hacked with proceeds laundered through Fortnite currency. In other news, they discussed why Microsoft doesn’t trust Thunderbolt, an Australian coronavirus tracking app, and Wifi 6E.

Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) grad student and DoD contractor William York joined the Techando crew to talk about security and his recent presentation at BSides in Tampa, FL. In the new WTF segment, the crew discussed how the 5G conspiracy spread across Europe and into the US. In the news, they talked about GitHub moving to a free model for teams, Fedora 33 enabling Systemd-Resolved, and why you shouldn’t share your high school senior photos (or anything) on Facebook.

Digital forensics expert Dan Young joined the Technado crew this week to share his expertise and tell us about QuoLab’s software. He told the team about all of the COVID-19 related scams, including a malware version of the Johns Hopkins pandemic map. In other news, the crew discussed Microsoft moving to digital-only events, moving China Telecom out of the US, a critical VMware bug, and the truly sad news that we won’t get new emojis in 2020.

The host of the Sysadmin Today podcast, Paul Joyner, was nice enough to sit in for this episode. After learning about his podcast, the team discussed who got pwned in a Bill Gates-themed crypto Ponzi YouTube scam. In the news, they talked about Ubuntu 20.04, the crash at the SBA’s online loan processing system, and an OpenWRT bug putting people at risk.

William Price from CyberX was this week’s Technado guest. In addition to talking cybersecurity, William broke down why security professionals should attend the SMB Cybersummit virtual event. Next, the group talked about how Zoom has turned into a milkshake duck. Don’t worry – they explain. In the news, they discussed a pause in non-essential Microsoft Windows updates, European users reporting Azure capacity issues, and malicious teddy bears from hackers.

Registration for the SMB Cybersummit is live at https://smbcybersummit.com/

Podcaster, speaker, and cybersecurity pioneer Graham Cluley joined Technado from “merry olde England” to offer his expertise on some of the cyber threats facing businesses today. The main story covered the plethora of free services available to IT teams during the Covid-19 outbreak like Cisco AnyConnect VPN and Sophos Home Commercial Edition. In other news, they discussed npm joining GitHub, the blurry lines separating the iPad Pro from the MacBook Air, and some crafty kids using negative reviews to get out of virtual classes.

In many cases, you’re more susceptible to phishing attacks when you’re on a mobile device. In this episode, Aaron Cockerill from Lookout joins to discuss how companies can mitigate those risks. In the news, the team discussed how the global pandemic is impacting IT departments. They also talk about Intel’s big change for power supplies, Systemd Homed, and Avast’s issue with an unsandboxed exploit.

With so much focus on B2B cybersecurity, we asked Sandor Slijderink of CyberPulse to join us to talk about securing our home networks. He also had some great input about the recent Clearview AI breach. In the news, the team discussed big tech’s effort to share remote work tools during the Coronavirus outbreak, the new 80-core Ampere Altra processor, and an AMD CPU vulnerability. (edited)