Technado

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and the Technado team is celebrating with Brian Bauer of Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin. Brian is an ITProTV member and the winner of the IT Pro to Go contest. In the news, the guys spec out a $52k Mac Pro, talked about the rise of WebAssembly, and looked at Ring’s recent issues with a hacker.

In this episode, the Technado team talks with Jack Rhysider, creator and host of the Darknet Diaries podcast about "hackers, breaches, APTs, hacktivism, cybercrime, and all the things that dwell on the hidden parts of the network." In the news, they discussed IBM's latest supercomputer, Google Maps incognito mode, and the end of HBO's Silicon Valley.

This week on Technado, the team is joined by online privacy advocate Yan Zhu who shares how the Brave browser is taking a new approach to safe and secure browsing. She also talks about her important work at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In the news, they discussed the .org domain takeover, a critical HPE SSD patch, and HackerOne paying out a bounty of their own.

With the short week for the Thanksgiving holiday in the US, the Technado team decided to have a little fun by looking back at some of the dumbest tech headlines from 2019. Romanian witches online, flat-earthers, and fake food for virtual dogs - what a time to be alive. Then, Shauli Rozen joined all the way from Israel to talk about a zero-trust environment in DevOps. (edited)

The team had a blast this week talking with hacker, mentor, and diversity in tech advocate Tanya Janca about her new venture, Security Sidekick. The news was less pleasant with articles about Iran shutting down the internet in response to protests, Google crashing thousands of browsers, and thousands of hacked Disney+ credentials popping up for sale. This is why we can’t have nice things.

The whole team is back together, and this week they were joined by Upsolver’s Ori Rafael who gave a crash course on Frictionless Data Lake Ingestion and ETL. In the news, they discussed an amusing error that caused some very late Valentine’s texts to send, the impact of Docker’s new corporate overlord, and how even American robots are losing their jobs to cheaper options offshore.

This week on Technado, Don and Justin talked with Joe Welch, Professor of Computer Information Technology & Systems faculty member at Central Texas College, about what students need to do to get into IT as well as the new ways CTC is keeping students engaged. In the news, the team discussed all of the news coming out of Microsoft's Ignite conference in Orlando.

This week on Technado, the team welcomes some special guests - the winners of the Come See ITProTV contest. They also discuss Azure’s $10 Billion defense contract and an Indian nuclear plant that suffered a malware attack.

Pen testing isn’t just for enterprise-level businesses. In this episode, the team talks with Barry Morgan of Absolute Cyber Defense about what pen testing looks like at small businesses. They also breakdown Google’s supercomputer announcement, and discuss theories on why phishing emails are so bad grammatically.

Marty Bakal joins the team this week to offer a glimpse of hope to people stuck using legacy systems. In the news, Don, Justin, and Peter look at an issue with Samsung's fingerprint scanner. They also cover all of the announcements coming out of Google. Anyone in the market for a $649 Chromebook?