TechSNAP

Episode 361: It's All in the Log

March 29th, 2018  |  32 mins 49 secs

android malware, apfs encryption, atlanta ransomware, etcd, giovanni collazo, macos high sierra, plaintext password, shodan, sysadmin podcast, techsnap, zero-day exploit

Embarrassing flaws get exposed when the logs get reviewed, Atlanta city government gets shut down by Ransomware, and the cleverest little Android malware you’ll ever meet.

Episode 351: Performance Meltdown

January 11th, 2018  |  41 mins 43 secs

backdoor, coordinated disclosure, freebsd, kaiser, kpti, macos high sierra, meltdown, pcid, perfmon, performance, pti, side-channel attack, spectre, speculative execution, sysadmin podcast, sysinternals, techsnap, ubuntu, wd my cloud

The types of workloads that will see the largest performance impacts from Meltdown, tools to test yourself, and the outlook for 2018.

Plus a concise breakdown of Meltdown, Spectre, and side-channel attacks like only TechSNAP can.