Technado (Archived)

Catch up on the cybersecurity and tech news of the week with Don, Dan, and Sophie as they cover the latest. This week in tech, users reported Ryzen motherboards were bulging as they failed due to heat, Ubuntu has released its newest Linux distribution version called Lunar Lobster, and Google has simplified two-factor authentication for all its users. In security news, Proton launched a new end-to-end encrypted password manager. In this week’s “Doh!” segment, arstechnica shared that used routers can often be used to obtain sensitive information about the previous user. Finally, in “Deja News,” a nesting-doll-style supply chain attack was implemented against 3CX.  

Catch up on the cybersecurity and tech news of the week with Don, Dan, and Sophie as they cover the latest. This week in tech, Microsoft began beta testing a change for the print screen key function. Microsoft also continued growing its Linux distribution, and it may have a major win in its future as Samsung is reportedly considering using Bing over Google as its default search engine. In security news, LinkedIn stepped into the future by rolling out new secure identification features. In this week’s “Who Got Pwned?” segment, motherboard maker MSI acknowledged a breach in their system as they issued an alert about rogue firmware. Finally, in “Deja News,” the hackers who breached Western Digital systems are claiming they have vast information, including customer info, and are demanding a large ransom in return. 

Catch up on the cybersecurity and tech news of the week with Don, Dan, and Sophie as they cover the latest. This week in tech, Microsoft is beta testing a taskbar workaround that allows users to bypass the task manager program to shut down applications, a blogger discovered a Bitcoin easter egg left behind in Apple’s MacOS systems, and Cisco revealed in a financial report that as its organization was exiting Russia, it destroyed $23 million in equipment. In security news, for our “Doh!” segment, multiple vulnerabilities with Nexx devices were discovered that allow hackers to gain access to smart home systems like doorbells, alarms, and garage doors. In this week’s “Who Got Pwned?” segment, Western Digital’s My Cloud went offline after hackers gained access to its systems. Finally, for Tinfoil Hat, the FBI warned consumers about “juice jacking”, where criminals infect mobile and other devices through publicly available charging stations.

Catch up on the cybersecurity and tech news of the week with Don, Dan, and Sophie as they cover the latest. This week in tech, the team covers a ground-breaking article about Ubuntu that isn’t what it seems. In Cloud news, Amazon has opened Sidewalk, its slow but far-reaching data network, for free public use. A new privacy-focused browser called Mullvad was released this week based on the Firefox browser. In security news, Microsoft began previewing its Security Copilot, an AI-powered cybersecurity defense tool. Two North Carolina residents were arrested after cutting over 2,000 fiber optic cables, cutting internet access for over 40,000 people. Finally, in this week’s “Who Got Pwned?” segment, a supply chain attack targeting Windows and MacOS users of the communication desktop client 3CX was detected by multiple security firms, and it was revealed that 3CX knew it had been flagged as malware for a week without taking action. 

This week the team celebrated the 300th episode of Technado. During the show, Don, Daniel, and Sophie look back at how the podcast began, cover some tech news, hear from fans and former guests of the show, and more. Thank you for helping us hit 300 episodes!

Catch up on the cybersecurity and tech news of the week with Don, Dan, and Sophie as they cover the latest. This week in tech, Microsoft began previewing an updated version of Teams with a new client, Microsoft announced it will be improving the way default apps are selected, and Google discloses CentOS Linux Kernel vulnerabilities after CentOS failed to fix them. In security news, journalists at several Ecuadorian news outlets were targeted by explosives designed to look like USB drives. For our “Doh!” segment, GitHub had to re-publish SSH keys after accidentally publishing private keys. Finally, in this week’s “Who Got Pwned?” segment, Windows, Ubuntu, and VMWare Workstation were all hacked on the last day of Pwn2Own, a hacking contest offering hundreds of thousands of dollars in prize money to the winners.  

Catch up on the cybersecurity and tech news of the week with Don, Dan, and Sophie as they cover the latest. This week in tech, a data startup secured funding to build a data center on the moon, various Chinese graphic card brands started selling on mainstream platforms in the US, and GPT-level-3 AI models can now be run on laptops, phones, and even a Raspberry Pi. In security news this week, our tinfoil hat article is all about AI-generated Youtube videos promoting info-stealing malware. In this week’s “D’oh!” segment, a flaw in the Bitwarden autofill feature potentially exposes passwords to hackers. Finally, in “Who Got Pwned?”, data protection company Acronis was infiltrated by a hacker who claimed he just wanted to humiliate them.

Catch up on the cybersecurity and tech news of the week with Don, Dan, and Sophie as they cover the latest. This week in tech, it’s all about Microsoft as it begins force-installing its Defender app on Windows 10 and 11 users, AI-powered Bing Chats showed up in Windows 11 taskbars, and Mac users no longer need a paid Microsoft 365 subscription to use Outlook. In security news this week, BlackLotus became the first malware to bypass Secure Boot. In this week’s “Who Got Pwned?” segment, Dish Network employees and customers were kicked offline by a likely cyber-attack. Finally, in Behind Bars, suspects likely from the ransomware family known as DoppelPaymer were arrested in Germany and Ukraine along with their equipment.

Catch up on the cybersecurity and tech news of the week with Don, Dan, and Sophie as they cover the latest. This week in tech, Microsoft rolled out a feature to dissuade users from using Windows 11 on unsupported CPUs, Ubuntu flavors will no longer support Flatpak installs out-of-the-box, and VMware’s Bitnami began packaging apps for Arm CPUs. In security news this week, Dutch police apprehended 3 hackers involved in the theft and extortion of tens of millions of people’s data. In this week’s “Who Got Pwned?” segment, media conglomerate News Corp revealed that the hackers responsible for its 2022 breach had been in the system since early 2020. Finally, in Deja-News this week we talk about LastPass once again, but this time it’s a new breach. A LastPass employee's home computer was hacked, resulting in a decrypted company vault being compromised.

Catch up on the cybersecurity and tech news of the week with Don, Dan, and Sophie as they cover the latest. This week in tech, Microsoft created support for users running Windows 11 on Macs, and Microsoft’s email customers were reporting inboxes flooded with spam despite email filtering. Meanwhile, Linux dropped systemd 253, introducing a new tool to create Unified Kernel Image (UKI) files. This week in cybersecurity, Microsoft is patching 76 security issues in Windows and OS components, sounding the alarm that some are already being exploited. And finally, in this week’s “Who Got Pwned?” section of the show, GoDaddy revealed that the same group of hackers had access to their networks for 3 years, even though each breach had been detected, and the Scandinavian Airlines website was hacked, compromising the personal information for some customers.