Zemach FM

A separate this week in tech episode for the 29th episode of Zemach FM, which is released on May 02, 2021.

Episode Timeline

00:50 Two service providers announced for Ethiopian telecommunication finalist tenders

03:13 Google assistant to learn name pronunciation from voice recording

04:01 Google IO 2021 to be held on May 18

06:12 The latest telegram features

Contact the hosts

Henok Tsegaye Twitter Instagram LinkedIn

Abdulhadmid Oumer Twitter Instagram linkedIn

Follow Zemach FM and give us comment

On the 29th episode of zemach fm we are continuing our previous discussion which was cryptocurrency. On this episode we dive deep in to some of the introduction sections we discussed last time. We dove deep into blockchain and proof of work, Alt coins, different types of wallets, things to look out for, and what the future of cryptocurrency might look like.

Episode Timeline

02:34 Episode title introduction

04:14 Deepdive in to blockchain technology

08:30 Why is blockchain required

08:45 The overall structure of blockchain

14:20 Why is proof of work required

15:20 What actually is a mining process

19:10 The other proofing way – proof of stake

21:45 What are cryptocurrency wallets

23:45 Public and private keys in wallets

25:10 Hot storage and cold storage

27:41 Seed phrases in cold storages

30:31 What are alt coins

32:00 How dogecoin came in to existence

35:00 Are alt coins really better than bit coin

37:00 What are stable coins

39:00 Things to look out for in the cryptocurrency world

40:16 What is a coin burn

45:35 What to expect in the future for cryptocurrencies

50:00 Some country policies on cryptocurrency

Contact the hosts

Henok Tsegaye Twitter Instagram LinkedIn

Abdulhadmid Oumer Twitter Instagram linkedIn

Follow Zemach FM and give us comment

A separate this week in tech episode for the 28th episode of Zemach FM, which is released on April 26, 2021.

Episode Timeline

01:18 The new 24 inch iMac

06:10 Air Tag – Apple’s new Find My integrated tracking device

12:45 The new iPad Pro

16:15 Crew 2 Space X mission successful

17:30 Google guacamole – Voice-controlled functionalities native to android

18:45 Tecno beats Samsung in the Africa market

Contact the hosts

Henok Tsegaye Twitter Instagram LinkedIn

Abdulhadmid Oumer Twitter Instagram linkedIn

Follow Zemach FM and give us comment

On the 28th episode of Zemach FM, we are discussing cryptocurrencies. We talked about what they actually are, what technologies are involved in the sector, how people can participate in the technology, and if cryptocurrency can be a solution to developing countries like Ethiopia.

Links In The Episode

Inside the cryptocurrency revolution

Episode Timelines

01:50 Episode introduction

03:10 What exactly is a cryptocurrency

04:10 Why cryptocurrency is decentralized

06:30 Characteristics of cryptocurrency

10:20 Technologies behind cryptocurrency

10:26 What is blockchain

11:50 How blockchain came in to existence

12:10 Components of blockchain

14:11 Mechanisms to prevent tampering with the block chain

15:00 What is a peer to peer connection

16:45 What it takes to successfully tamper with the block chain

18:25 Mining rigs

19:50 Why is a mining rig required these days

25:00 How can some one participate in cryptocurrency

26:00 Mining pools

27:50 The concept of web mining

30:05 Why it is impossible to mine cryptocurrencies with normal hardware

35:30 Where cryptocurrencies are stored (wallet)

35:14 Can developing countries benefit from cryptocurrency

36:30 Russia and cryptocurrency

40:00 Why it is hard for countries to accept cryptocurrency

43:20 Some pros and cons of using cryptocurrency

Contact the hosts

Henok Tsegaye Twitter Instagram LinkedIn

Abdulhadmid Oumer Twitter Instagram linkedIn

Follow Zemach FM and give us comment

A separate this week in tech episode for the 27th episode of Zemach FM, which is released on April 18, 2021.

Episode Timeline

00:30 Ethiotelecom expands to southern Ethiopia south west part.

02:15 Twitter outage on Saturday

03:31 An app that uses eye image to diagnose COVID-19 with up to 95% accuracy

06:40 Dodgecoin price rises up to 47 cents

10:09 Apple to have an event (Spring Loaded) this Tuesday

12:15 Clubhouse and LinkedIn scrapped data leak

14:30 Nasa to use Starship for the next Moon mission

15:55 Alibaba to pay 2.8 Billion dollars in lawsuits

Links On The Episode

Apple Spring Loaded Event

Contact the hosts

Henok Tsegaye Twitter Instagram LinkedIn

Abdulhadmid Oumer Twitter Instagram linkedIn

Follow Zemach FM and give us comment

In today’s last episode of the security series, we are discussing how you can prevent security threats from happening to you locally on your computer to threats happening over the internet. We also discussed how you can make your online activity as private as possible. We will give you tips, mechanisms, and resources as to how you can achieve those things.

Episode Timeline

01:30 Episode title introduction

02:46 How do we keep our computer safe from threats

03:30 Importance of keeping your system up to date

06:30 How your antivirus should be set up

08:10 Using a third party DNS

13:11 Keeping yourself secure on the internet

14:10 Which type of data you should keep private

16:05 Knowing which types of links to click

17:00 Scams over the internet

19:00 Using strong passwords

20:00 Back up your data

24:12 Knowing when to give native applications certain permissions

27:00 Identifying which contents are official and true

29:30 How important is your privacy over the internet

32:42 Compartmentalizing online services to different companies and platforms

34:14 Using a VPN and the TOR browser

35:45 Intermediate privacy mechanisms

36:45 Preferring PWAs over native applications

38:00 Preferring open source software

39:32 Lower level privacy mechanisms

42:55 Having privacy rules in place by governments

Contact the hosts

Henok Tsegaye Twitter Instagram LinkedIn

Abdulhadmid Oumer Twitter Instagram linkedIn

Follow Zemach FM and give us comment

A separate this week in tech episode for the 25th episode of Zemach FM, which is released on April 12, 2021.

Episode Timeline

01:01 Ethitelecom expands 4G LTE service to west part of western Ethiopia.

02:10 Google AI manager leaves the company

05:25 533 Million Facebook private user data leaked online.

08:00 Mark Zuckerberg using signal messenger

10:21 New neuralink video shows a monkey playing ping pong using only her mind

15:30 LG to stop producing smartphones

20:58 Yahoo answers closing down on May 4

Links In The Episode

Have I Been Pawned

Monkey Mind Pong

Contact the hosts

Henok Tsegaye Twitter Instagram LinkedIn

Abdulhadmid Oumer Twitter Instagram linkedIn

Follow Zemach FM and give us comment

On the 26th episode of zemach fm, we are discussing about operating system security. This one of the episodes in our on going cyber-security series. On our operating system security episode we talked about the different kind of vulnerabilities and threats that the most popular operating system i.e Windows, MacOs and Linux have. Why windows is more exposed to malware as compared to the other two and what we can do to prevent most of the threats out there.

Episode Timeline

02:00 Episode title introduction

05:20 How the design of the operating system cause problems later on

07:10 Why windows is more affected by malwares

08:40 Previous version of windows and how they were flawed

15:14 Attacks and vulnerabilities on Linux OS

18:00 Privileges on Linux OS

19:43 Global or all OS security threats

20:20 Some security issue prevention methods

Contact the hosts

Henok Tsegaye Twitter Instagram LinkedIn

Abdulhadmid Oumer Twitter Instagram linkedIn

Follow Zemach FM and give us comment

A separate this week in tech episode for the 25th episode of Zemach FM, which is released on April 05, 2021.

Episode timeline

00:24 Tele expands it’s LTE Advanced service to north western parts of Ethiopia

01:50 Youtube testing removal of dislike button counter on some users

05:05 Google making it’s own processor GS-101 for the new Pixel phone (Pixel 6)

06:43 The WWDC 2021 event announcement and expected releases

10:11 A new information on Spotify’s car thing

11:58 Volkswagen and other companies April fool stunts

Links in the episode

WWDC-2021 Rumors

Contact the hosts

Henok Tsegaye Twitter Instagram LinkedIn

Abdulhadmid Oumer Twitter Instagram linkedIn

Follow Zemach FM and give us comment

On the 25 the episode of Zemach FM we are continuing on the cybersecurity series. In this episode, we are discussing about some of the main threats and vulnerabilities on the internet. The main titles discussed on this episode include cookie vulnerabilities and threats, Denial of service attacks, Web app vulnerabilities, and social engineering. We discuss what methods are used by attackers to perform them, to what extent it could affect a service, and some of the measures that can be taken to prevent or stop the attacks listed above.

Episode Timeline

01:30 Title introduction

04:30 Vulnerabilities and threats caused by cookies

05:40 What exactly is cookie used for

07:13 How cross site request forgery (CSRF) works

10:53 What is a Cross site scripting (XSS) attack

12:03 The three different types of XSS attacks

15:00 XSS attack prevention methods

18:07 What is a denial of service attack

20:18 What is the difference between distributed and non-distributed denial of service attack

21:36 How a distributed denial of service works

23:53 Common types of denial of service attacks

28:54 Ways of preventing and stopping a denial of service attack

33:53 SQL injection what it is and how it works

37:00 Ways of preventing an SQL injection

38:03 Click jacking attacks

40:02 Social engineering attacks

42:57 What is a phishing attack

43:30 Examples of a phishing attack

46:30 Social engineering and scams in our country

53:10 Closing talk

Contact the hosts

Henok Tsegaye Twitter Instagram LinkedIn

Abdulhadmid Oumer Twitter Instagram linkedIn

Follow Zemach FM and give us comment