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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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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.