About the show
Systems, Network, and Administration Podcast. Every two weeks TechSNAP covers the stories that impact those of us in the tech industry, and all of us that follow it. Every episode we dedicate a portion of the show to answer audience questions, discuss best practices, and solving your problems.
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Episodes
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Episode 270: Signature Bloatware Updates | TechSNAP 270
June 9th, 2016 | 1 hr 15 mins
The bloatware shipping on those new computers is way, way worse than you probably thought, Internet exposed printers & the thrilling story of reverse engineering an ATM skimmer. Yes that’s really a thing.
Plus great questions, our answers & more!
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Episode 269: 10,000 Cables Under the Sea | TechSNAP 269
June 2nd, 2016 | 1 hr 41 mins
Windows exploits for sale at a great price, how the Internet works, yes, seriously & it's awesome!
Plus we solve some of your problems, a great roundup & more!
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Episode 268: PIS Poor DNS | TechSNAP 268
May 26th, 2016 | 1 hr 29 mins
Is the “Dark Cloud” hype, or a real technology? Using DNS tunneling for remote command and control & the big problem with 1-Day exploits.
Plus your great question, our answers, a breaking news roundup & more!
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Episode 267: My Kingdom for a VLAN | TechSNAP 267
May 19th, 2016 | 1 hr 23 mins
A typo stops a billion dollar bank hack, a vulnerability in 7zip that might surprise you & the best solutions for secure remote network access.
Your great questions, our answers, a packed round up & more!
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Episode 266: Curl Sleeper Agent | TechSNAP 266
May 12th, 2016 | 1 hr 40 mins
Zero-day exploits striking over 100 systems, if you think copying links to bash scripts from the internet is okay, maybe you shouldn't be root & the day Google automated itself off the internet.
Plus your questions, our answers, a huge round up & more!
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Episode 265: Insecure Socket Layer | TechSNAP 265
May 5th, 2016 | 1 hr 25 mins
A critical flaw in that bit of software tucked far far away that you never think about… We explain why ImageTragick is a pain. More OpenSSL flaws & fraudsters stealing tax data from the motherload.
Plus your questions, our answers, the roundup & more!
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Episode 264: On Target | TechSNAP 264
April 28th, 2016 | 1 hr 26 mins
This week, Chris & allan are both out of town at different shenanigans, but they recorded a sneaky episode for you in which they recap the Target breach, from when the news broke to the lessons learned and everything in between!
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Episode 263: One Key to Rule Them All | TechSNAP 263
April 21st, 2016 | 1 hr 10 mins
This week, the FBI says APT6 has pawned the government for the last 5 years, Unaoil: a company that's bribing the world & Researchers find a flaw in the visa database.
All that plus a packed feedback, roundup & more!
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Episode 262: rm -rf $ALLTHETHINGS/ | TechSNAP 262
April 14th, 2016 | 1 hr 36 mins
Find out why everyone's disappointed in Badlock, the bad security that could be connected to the Panama Papers leak & a simple delete command that took out an entire hosting provider.
Plus your batch of networking questions, a packed round up & more!
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Episode 261: Holding Hospitals Hostage | TechSNAP 261
April 7th, 2016 | 1 hr 13 mins
Find out about another hospital that accidentally took advantage of free encryption, researchers turn up a DDoS on the root DNS servers & the password test you never want to take.
Plus your batch of networking questions, our answers & a packed round up!
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Episode 260: Pay to Boot | TechSNAP 260
March 31st, 2016 | 1 hr 13 mins
New Ransomware locks your bootloader & makes you pay to boot. Malware with built in DRM? We’ll share the story of this clever hack.
Plus some great questions, our answers, a packed round up & more!
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Episode 259: Can You Hack Me Now? | TechSNAP 259
March 24th, 2016 | 1 hr 30 mins
Verizon Enterprise gets breached & the irony is strong with this one, details on the NPM fiasco & why the SAMSAM is holding up the doctor.
Plus some great questions, a packed round up & much, much more!
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Episode 258: Metaphorically Exploited | TechSNAP 258
March 17th, 2016 | 1 hr 13 mins
The theoretical Android flaw becomes reality, a simple phishing scam hits some major companies & why your PIN has already been leaked.
Plus great questions, our answers, a rocking round up & much, much more!
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Episode 257: Fixing the Barn Door | TechSNAP 257
March 10th, 2016 | 1 hr 20 mins
We’ll tell you about the real world pirates that hacked a shipping company, the open source libraries from Mars Rover found being used in malware & Microsoft’s solution for that after-hack hangover.
Plus great questions, a packed round up & much more!
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Episode 256: Open Server Sadness Layer | TechSNAP 256
March 3rd, 2016 | 1 hr 50 mins
OpenSSL issues a major security advisory, we break down the important details, then go in depth on the real world impact of these flaws.
Plus some great storage and networking question, a packed round up & much, much more!
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Episode 255: Dip the Chip | TechSNAP 255
February 25th, 2016 | 1 hr 38 mins
What’s taking the states so long to catch up to the rest of the civilized world and dip the chip? Turns out it's really complicated, we explain. Plus keeping a Hospital secure is much more than following HIPAA, and an analysis of Keybase malware.