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 238: Certifiable Authority | TechSNAP 238
October 29th, 2015 | 1 hr 18 mins
TalkTalk gets compromised, Hackers make cars safer & Google plays hardball with Symantec.
Plus a great batch of your questions, a rocking round up & much, much more!
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Episode 237: A Rip in NTP | TechSNAP 237
October 22nd, 2015 | 2 hrs 5 mins
The OpenZFS summit just wrapped up and Allan shares the exciting new features coming to the file system, researchers warn about flaws in NTP & of course we've got some critical patches.
Plus a great batch of questions, a rockin' round up & much more!
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Episode 236: National Security Breaking Agency | TechSNAP 236
October 15th, 2015 | 1 hr 51 mins
How the NSA might be breaking Crypto, fresh zero day exploit against Flash with a twist & Keylogging before computers.
Plus a great batch of your questions, a rocking round-up & much more!
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Episode 235: Catching the Angler | TechSNAP 235
October 8th, 2015 | 1 hr 52 mins
Debug mode exposes sensitive data, Cisco’s Talos group exposes the Angler exploit kit & how a Microsoft exposed Conficker with an egg hunt.
Plus some great feedback, a huge round up & much, much more!
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Episode 234: Key Flaw With GPL | TechSNAP 234
October 1st, 2015 | 1 hr 6 mins
D-Link publishes its private code signing keys, exploiting Windows Symbolic Links & why encryption is not sufficient protection.
Plus some great questions, our answers, a rockin roundup & much, much more!
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Episode 233: Dukes of Cyber Hazard | TechSNAP 233
September 24th, 2015 | 1 hr 16 mins
Let’s Encrypt hits a major milestone, F-Secure publishes their investigation into “The Dukes” & we dig into Tarsnap’s email confirmation bypass.
Plus a great batch of your questions, a rocking round up & much, much more!
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Episode 232: Hardware Insecurity Module | TechSNAP 232
September 17th, 2015 | 1 hr 4 mins
How Groupon made the switch to FreeBSD & why. Researches extract keys from a hardware module & Intel’s new CPU backed malware protection.
Plus your questions, a great roundup & more!
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Episode 231: Leaky RSA Keys | TechSNAP 231
September 10th, 2015 | 1 hr 16 mins
Red Hat highlights how leaky many open source RSA implementations are, Netflix releases Sleepy Puppy & the Mac is definitely under attack.
Plus some quick feedback, a rockin' roundup & much, much more!
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Episode 230: Trojan Family Ties | TechSNAP 230
September 3rd, 2015 | 1 hr 9 mins
Rooting your Android device might be more dangerous than you realize, why the insurance industry will take over InfoSec & the NSA prepares for Quantum encryption.
Plus some great questions, a fantastic roundup & more!
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Episode 229: Extortion Startups | TechSNAP 229
August 27th, 2015 | 1 hr 44 mins
The real fallout from the Ashley Madison hack gets personal. The Android StageFright patch that doesn’t cover all of the holes, and turning a KVM into a spying appliance.
Plus a great batch of questions, our answers, a rocking round up & more!
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Episode 228: Export Grade Vulnerabilities | TechSNAP 228
August 20th, 2015 | 1 hr 12 mins
Lenovo & HP are caught injecting malware even after you format the drive, Ubiquiti Networks is socially engineered out of 46 million & are we entering the era of Security Research Prohibition? We debate. Plus your questions, the roundup & much, much more!
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Episode 227: Oracle's EULAgy #oraclefanfic | TechSNAP 227
August 13th, 2015 | 1 hr 13 mins
Oracle really doesn’t want you to reverse engineer their products but they may have just released the Kraken, we’ll explain.
A massive drop of 35 fixes in one day, great feedback and follow up, a rockin roundup & much, much more!
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Episode 226: Solving the Flash Plague | TechSNAP 226
August 7th, 2015 | 1 hr 23 mins
Adobe is making changes to Flash to mitigate 0day exploits, with help from Google. Chrysler recalls 1.4M vehicles due to a software flaw, we go inside the “Business Club” cyber crime gang.
Plus a great batch of questions, the roundup & more!
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Episode 225: SourceForge's Downfall | TechSNAP 225
July 30th, 2015 | 1 hr 4 mins
SourceForge sees downtime, and we examine their infrastructure, a new pervasive hackgroup has been exposed and their track record is fascinating.
Plus a Hacking Team Round up, a wide variety of audience questions, our answers & much, much more!
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Episode 224: Butterflies & Backronyms | TechSNAP 224
July 23rd, 2015 | 1 hr 10 mins
The Backronym vulnerability hits MySQL right in the SSL protection, we’ll share the details. The hacker Group that hit Apple & Microsoft intensifies their attacks, a survey shows many core Linux tools are at risk & much, much more!
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Episode 223: A Bias to Insecurity | TechSNAP 223
July 16th, 2015 | 1 hr 22 mins
The Hacking Team fallout continues with more zero day patches you need to install, a new attack against RC4 might finally kill it & how to save yourself from a DDoS attack.
Plus a great batch of your questions, our answers & much, much more!