Technado (Archived)

This week on Technado, Don, Dan, & Sophie cover Microsoft's announcement regarding third-party printer drivers. Then, they look at some new ceramic nano technology that promises to turn the storage business on its head. Before heading to break, the team takes a look at this year's Top Programming Languages from IEEE Spectrum. To kick off the second half of the show, the Technado crew revisits Microsoft's email breach fiasco and talks about what went wrong (hint: everything). Then, in this week's "D'oh!" segment, they take a look at the patch for the recent AMD Zenbleed vulnerability. Finally, the team covers a new Cisco 0-day being exploited by ransomware crooks in "Who Got Pwned?"

Don, Dan & Sophie kick off this week's episode with some Microsoft news: the tech giant is pulling the plug on WordPad, as well as making some of their certification exams open book! In other tech news, we finally have an answer to the age old question: is a carrier pigeon faster than the internet? Moving on to security news, the FBI dismantles Qakbot - but not before it took millions in ransom. LogicMonitor customers fall victim to hackers due to default passwords. And to wrap up the show: an unknown attacker gives free Sourcegraph access to the masses.

Join Don, Daniel and Sophie as they discuss the latest tech news. This week, the team talks about Microsoft's announcement for Python in Excel, and Dropbox following in Google’s footsteps to limit storage for users. In security news this week, a ransomware attack caused a cloud storage company to restart from the ground up and a transnational gang turned out to just be two teenagers in London. Tune in to hear all that and more on this week’s Technado!

Don, Dan, and Sophie are back with more tech news and outdated references! The team kicks off the show with some Microsoft news: a Windows feature is resetting system clocks at random and wreaking havoc. In Linux land, Debian turns 30 years old! To wrap up the first half of the show, the team talks about microchipped cheese - Parmigiano-Reggiano, to be exact. Sophie looks back on her time at Black Hat 2023, then the Technado team jumps into security news. A WinRAR flaw that's activated by opening an archive, Google's first quantum resilient FIDO2 key, and an easily-bypassed Apple malware flagging tool are all in the spotlight this week.

Don and Sophie are back alongside Daniel for this week's episode of Technado! To kick off the show, the Windows 365 Switch has entered public preview, and three of Red Hat's biggest rivals are taking on RHEL with their own Open Enterprise Linux source code repo. In cloud news, Zoom executives are under fire for their statements on using Zoom calls as AI fodder. Then, the Technado team jumps into some wild security news: the founder of LolekHosted is on the lam, the UK government assures us their websites are NOT malicious scams, and a Belarusian government-backed hacking group was caught spying on embassies.