Good progress is being made on post-quantum resilient computing. We’ll explain how they’re achieving it, the risks facing traditional cryptography.

Plus how bad defaults led to the theft of military Drone docs, new attacks against LTE networks, more!

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• Hacker Steals Military Docs Because Someone Didn’t Change a Default FTP Password

Allan Jude and Wes sit-down for a special live edition of the TechSNAP program.

Joined by Jed and Jeff they have a wide ranging organic conversation.

Special Guest: Allan Jude.

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Netflix has learned the hard way how to utilize all the logs, we cover their lessons in their journey to build a fully observable system.

Plus the Lazy State FPU bug that cropped up this week, backdoored Docker images, your questions, and more!

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Microsoft puts a data center under the ocean, and they might be onto something. The Zip Slip vulnerability sneaks into your software, and VPNFilter turns out to be more complicated than first known.

Plus the mass exploit of Drupalgeddon2 continues, we break down why, a batch of questions, and more.

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We explain how the much hyped VPNFilter malware actually works, and its rather surprising sophistication.

Plus a clear break down of the recent Kubernetes news, how a 40 year old tel-co protocol is being abused today, and a Git vulnerability you should know about.

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We’ll explain how Speculative Store Bypass works, and the new mitigation techniques that are inbound.

Plus this week’s security news has a bit of a theme, and we share some great war stories sent into the show.

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The EFail hype-train has hit hypersonic speed, we’ll tap the breaks and explain who disclosed it, what it is, what it’s not, our recommendations, and early reactions.

Plus things to consider when deciding on-premises vs a cloud deployment, and the all business gadget from 1971 that kicked off the consumer electronics revolution.

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Our FreeNAS build is complete and Allan’s back to cover the final details. Plus the new GPU attack against Android phones, and a perfect example of poor IoT security.

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We catch up with Allan Jude and he shares stories of hunting network bottlenecks, memories of old firewalls, and some classic ZFS updates.

Plus the vulnerabilities found in Volkswagen cars, and the lengths a security research went to create the ultimate honeypot laptop.

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Hardware flaws that can’t be solved, human errors at the physical layer, and spoofing cellular networks with a $5 dongle.

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