The Iron Sysadmin

Welcome to Episode 59News

• https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/09/googles-anthos-hybrid-cloud-platform-is-coming-to-aws-and-azure/
• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/burger-king-impossible-whopper-burger-king-launches-vegan-burger-on-april-fools-day/
• https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-chrome-engineers-want-to-block-some-http-file-downloads/
• https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/apr/10/black-hole-picture-captured-for-first-time-in-space-breakthrough
• https://gizmodo.com/apple-music-censors-songs-in-china-referencing-1989-tia-1833916935
• https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/09/tech/yahoo-data-breach-settlement/index.html
• https://www.wired.com/story/tajmahal-swiss-army-spyware-apt/

 

Announcements

• Nate will be at RedHat Summit
• Likely part of the “Winning with RHEL” panel

Reviews

• We’ve got a 5-star rating on Apple Podcasts, but only 9 reviews.  We’d love to hear more feedback!
• From Slack:
• • Michael N
  • Hey guys, just wanted to stop by and say hey. As a newer sysadmin I’ve been enjoying the podcast and learning a lot. I just finished the latest episode on my commute this morning and especially liked the overview of the differences between ansible/puppet. Keep up the good work!

Chat

• Dustins meetup: https://tech570.org

• Jasons blog series:
• • https://blog.godshell.com/deployment-quest/

 

Main topic

• Hacker/computer movies
• • Hackers (duh) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243 (https://twitter.com/CRASH__N__BURN)
  • • Nate:
    • • Swordfish - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244244
      • The Net - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113957
      • Short Circuit - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091949
    • Jason:
    • • Sneakers - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435
      • Prime Risk - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087942
      • Wargames - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567
      • Firewall - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408345
    • Dustin
    • • Office Space - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/
      • Ex Machina - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470752
      • Tron - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084827

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Welcome to Episode #58

News

• https://www.wired.com/story/mcdonalds-big-data-dynamic-yield-acquisition/
• https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-event-2019-apple-card-tv-plus-news-plus-arcade-everything-just-announced/
• https://www.fastcompany.com/90315706/kids-parents-social-media-sharing
• https://www.engadget.com/2019/03/25/asus-hack-shadowhammer-backdoor/
• • https://www.engadget.com/2019/03/26/asus-releases-fix-for-update-tool-malware-attack/

Announcements

• Don’t forget you can support the show via https://patreon.com/ironsysadmin
• DC610 Meetup next week (https://www.meetup.com/DEFCON610/)
• Bloomcon (http://intranet.bloomu.edu/bloomcon)
• LVAWSUG (https://www.meetup.com/Lehigh-Valley-Amazon-Web-Services-Users-Group/)

Reviews

• Rob Weaver on Twitter: @ironsysadmin great show this wee(k) regarding change control gave me lots of ideas. Keep the good work up I listen to you chaps on #podkicker on my android phone.

Chat

• Nate’s asa is heavy.
• Jason’s shelves arent done
• Charles rode a train.

Main topic

• Rob Weaver on twitter asks: IT automation may be a good talk, ansible puppet and such, what you guys have worked with and experience
• • Build automation
  • Config management
  • App deployment

 

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Welcome to Episode 57!

News

• https://www.engadget.com/2019/03/12/alphabet-chrome-extension-toxic-comments/
• https://betanews.com/2019/03/12/windows-7-upgrade-notifications/
• https://venturebeat.com/2019/03/11/tim-berners-lee-says-world-wide-web-must-emerge-from-adolescence/
• https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/433472-trump-endorses-permanent-daylight-saving-time
• https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-joins-f5/
• https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47454528

 

Announcements

 

Reviews

 

Chat

• https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/02/style/momo-mania-hoax.html
• https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2019/03/07/less-than-a-month-to-go-before-google-breaks-hundreds-of-thousands-of-links-all-over-the-internet/

Main topic

• Change Management
• • Change management board
  • Change documentation
  • Change management using config management apps like puppet
  • • Version control
  • Issue trackers/request trackers

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Welcome to Episode 56!

News

• https://www.forbes.com/sites/andyrobertson/2019/02/27/dont-panic-what-parents-really-need-to-know-about-momo-challenge/#f27ebc3a4be9
• https://www.cnet.com/news/chrome-should-get-extremely-fast-at-loading-a-whole-lot-of-web-pages/
• https://www.cnet.com/news/gab-wants-to-add-a-comment-section-to-everything-on-the-internet/
• https://www.zdnet.com/article/cryptocurrency-wallet-caught-sending-user-passwords-to-googles-spellchecker/
• https://www.engadget.com/2019/02/27/congress-questions-nest-secure-mic/

 

Announcements

• WOPR Summit - Friday March 1 - Sunday March 3

 

Chat

 

Main topic

• derbycon with @ajediday
• Hack your derby
• Whos slide

 

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Welcome to Episode 55!

News

• https://www.forbes.com/sites/dantedisparte/2019/02/05/quadrigacx-how-to-lose-140-million-in-an-instant/#4c00407575da
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/02/10/unvaccinated-teens-are-fact-checking-their-parents-trying-get-shots-their-own
• https://www.wired.com/story/germany-facebook-antitrust-ruling/
• https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/02/11/samsungs-android-browser-hits-1-billion-downloads-more-than-firefox-and-opera-combined/

 

Announcements

• Global Diversity CFP Day (https://www.globaldiversitycfpday.com/)
• • March 1st - 3rd
• WOPR Summit (https://www.woprsummit.org/)
• • March 2nd
• https://www.meetup.com/Lehigh-Valley-Amazon-Web-Services-Users-Group/events/257348103/
• • February 13th
• WordCamp Lancaster (https://2019.lancasterpa.wordcamp.org/)
• • April 27
• Now hosted on lIbsyn

 

Reviews

• Youtube update: 120 subs

 

Chat

• Trains and Transmissions.

 

Main topic

 

• WFH

 

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Welcome to Episode 54!

News

• https://www.standard.co.uk/tech/chinese-debt-app-wechat-a4046936.html
• https://securityboulevard.com/2019/01/the-cybersecurity-impact-of-the-government-shutdown-is-not-what-you-think/
• https://threatpost.com/gov-warning-dns-hijacking/141088/
• https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/21/french-data-protection-watchdog-fines-google-57-million-under-the-gdpr/
• https://thehackernews.com/2019/01/scp-software-vulnerabilities.html

Announcements

• We got tweeted by Redhat developers!

Reviews

• Doug on youtube: Hey, I usually get your podcast get this thru rss feed (beyond pod) for the commute. Not sure if that registered anywhere as “a listen” or whatever,  but thanks for putting this on. I’m an old sysadmin and appreciate the references back to the 90’s when I was desk side support.
• Up to 116 subscribers

Main topic

• DerbyCon with guests Evil Mog and Quadling
  • https://www.derbycon.com/blog/derbycon-9-0-every-beginning-has-an-end/

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Welcome to Episode 53

News

• https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/8/18173716/verizon-5g-fake-icon-att
• https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/07/darpa-wants-to-build-an-ai-to-find-the-patterns-hidden-in-global-chaos/
• https://www.popsci.com/impossible-burger-2-taste-test-ces-2018
• https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hacker-streaming-pewdiepie-videos-on-exposed-chromecast-devices/
• https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nepxeg/atandt-preps-for-new-layoffs-despite-billions-in-tax-breaks-and-regulatory-favors

Announcements

• Custom URL! https://www.youtube.com/IronSysadminPodcast

Chat

• https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_the_Dead_Cow

Main topic

• Podman, nftables, and RHEL8 Beta.
• https://www.undrground.org/2019/01/07/rhel-8-beta-the-podman-cometh/

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Welcome to Episode #52

AT&T has all the Gs, “Alexa, send my conversations to a random person”, debating screen time, being a woman online is hell, “goodbye twitter, hello fortnite”, and we talk 2018 in review, tonight on Iron Sysadmin, Episode 52!

News

• https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/21/18151764/att-5g-evolution-logo-rollout-fake-network
• https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/20/amazon_alexa_recordings_stranger/
• https://www.wired.com/story/year-in-review-tech-addiction-debate-all-wrong/
• https://www.fastcompany.com/90283504/a-woman-on-twitter-is-abused-every-30-seconds
• https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/21/18152012/fortnite-was-2018s-most-important-social-network

Announcements

• We’re 2 subscribers shy of 100! Youtubes! GO!

Shameless plugs:

• We could be reading your review right now…
• https://www.patreon.com/ironsysadmin

Chat

• Christmas!  Lots of christmas
• Nintendo switch
• Xbox hdd replacement

Main topic

• Year end review
  • January – https://www.ironsysadmin.com/2018/01/15/episode-33-specter-and-meltdown/
  • February, March – https://www.ironsysadmin.com/2018/03/26/episode-35-dont-be-like-nate/
  • April – https://www.ironsysadmin.com/2018/04/23/episode-37-drupal-vs-wordpress/
  • May – https://www.ironsysadmin.com/2018/05/23/episode-39-wordpress-like-a-pro-edited/
  • June – https://www.ironsysadmin.com/2018/06/20/episode-41-devops/
  • July – https://www.ironsysadmin.com/2018/07/02/episode-42-monitoring/
  • August – https://www.ironsysadmin.com/2018/08/08/iron-sysadmin-episode-44-cons/
    • http://www.bsidesli.org/
  • September – https://www.ironsysadmin.com/2018/09/26/episode-47-revisiting-the-cloud/
  • October – https://www.ironsysadmin.com/2018/10/10/episode-48-derbycon/
  • December – https://www.ironsysadmin.com/2018/12/12/episode-51-ed-skoudis-and-the-sans-holiday-hack/

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Main topic

• Interview with Ed Skoudis!
  • Who’s this guy?
    • Counter Hack, founder
      • Netwars
    • SANS instructor
    • Holiday Hack
  • Hacking in the physical world
    • Epic office
    • Free Pie
  • Holiday Hack
    • What’s new this year?
    • What does the infrastructure for this beast look like?
    • Why is the gate still up?
  • Listener questions:
    • How do you manage your time?
    • Do you have any favorite stories about your time in the industry?

Chat

• Jason broke his server, again
  • Atomic!
  • OSTree
• Nate fixed his jeep
• Charles has running model trains!

  News

• https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46456695
• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-10/verizon-to-give-buyouts-to-10-400-employees-in-restructuring?srnd=premium
• https://www.wired.com/story/how-do-you-publish-the-work-of-a-scientific-villain/
• https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/12/supermicro-refutes-report-of-malicious-implants-with-audit/
• https://www.extremetech.com/internet/281991-australia-becomes-first-western-nation-to-ban-secure-encryption

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Welcome to Episode 50

Announcements

• Ed Skoudis on ISA Episode 51! 12/12

Reviews

Worth the time

by Coolguy1067

Great podcast with a wide variety of IT topics. Thanks guys.

Great Show

by JerryKinh

I am a Network/Systems Admin in the mining industry. I really like the topics you cover and your insight on the IT world.

Chat

Main topic

• Re:invent
  • Vegas is weird
    • Disney land for adults
  • Scale
    • 50k attendees
    • It feels like 7 different conferences in one
    • 7 venues
    • Meals, snacks
    • staff
    • Evenings
    • Monday Night Live
  • Content
    • Chalk talks
    • Breakout sessions
    • Keynotes
    • Deep dives
    • Bootcamp
  • Certification
    • Seems like all written
    • The bootcamps were designed to prep you for exams.
  • Announcements
    • https://aws.amazon.com/new/reinvent/
    • Blockchain!Blockchain
    • Firecracker
      • This is basically a secure microvm infrastructure
    • AWS Outposts
      • You can now run the cloud in your datacenter… ?
    • Lambda Layers
      • Seems similar to docker layers?
    • Lambda ALB
    • AWS Ground Station
      • Satellites, like, literally..
    • EFS infrequent access
    • Glacier deep archive
  • Talks I saw
    • AWS Certification Exam Readiness: SysOps Administrator – Associate
    • CON305-S – Get SaaSy with Red Hat OpenShift on AWS – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7zeXk6Kggk
    • STG301-R – Deep Dive on Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FQvJ2q6_oA
    • CON309-R – Building PaaS with Amazon EKS for the Large-Scale, Highly Regulated Enterprise – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl131UXp5yo
    • STG305-R – Deep Dive: Build Hybrid Cloud Storage Architectures with Storage Gateway – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6TpM-FWs38
    • BAP201 – Securely Deliver Desktop Applications with Amazon AppStream 2.0 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNIyc_inOhM
    • CMP302-R1 – High Performance Computing on AWS: Driving Innovation without Infrastructure Constraints – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FICBszDFGFk
  • Re:Play
    • Jen Lasher
    • Mija
    • Skrillex

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