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This week the team celebrated the 300th episode of Technado. During the show, Don, Daniel, and Sophie look back at how the podcast began, cover some tech news, hear from fans and former guests of the show, and more. Thank you for helping us hit 300 episodes!

Catch up on the cybersecurity and tech news of the week with Don, Dan, and Sophie as they cover the latest. This week in tech, Microsoft began previewing an updated version of Teams with a new client, Microsoft announced it will be improving the way default apps are selected, and Google discloses CentOS Linux Kernel vulnerabilities after CentOS failed to fix them. In security news, journalists at several Ecuadorian news outlets were targeted by explosives designed to look like USB drives. For our “Doh!” segment, GitHub had to re-publish SSH keys after accidentally publishing private keys. Finally, in this week’s “Who Got Pwned?” segment, Windows, Ubuntu, and VMWare Workstation were all hacked on the last day of Pwn2Own, a hacking contest offering hundreds of thousands of dollars in prize money to the winners.

Catch up on the cybersecurity and tech news of the week with Don, Dan, and Sophie as they cover the latest. This week in tech, a data startup secured funding to build a data center on the moon, various Chinese graphic card brands started selling on mainstream platforms in the US, and GPT-level-3 AI models can now be run on laptops, phones, and even a Raspberry Pi. In security news this week, our tinfoil hat article is all about AI-generated Youtube videos promoting info-stealing malware. In this week’s “D’oh!” segment, a flaw in the Bitwarden autofill feature potentially exposes passwords to hackers. Finally, in “Who Got Pwned?”, data protection company Acronis was infiltrated by a hacker who claimed he just wanted to humiliate them.

Catch up on the cybersecurity and tech news of the week with Don, Dan, and Sophie as they cover the latest. This week in tech, it’s all about Microsoft as it begins force-installing its Defender app on Windows 10 and 11 users, AI-powered Bing Chats showed up in Windows 11 taskbars, and Mac users no longer need a paid Microsoft 365 subscription to use Outlook. In security news this week, BlackLotus became the first malware to bypass Secure Boot. In this week’s “Who Got Pwned?” segment, Dish Network employees and customers were kicked offline by a likely cyber-attack. Finally, in Behind Bars, suspects likely from the ransomware family known as DoppelPaymer were arrested in Germany and Ukraine along with their equipment.

Catch up on the cybersecurity and tech news of the week with Don, Dan, and Sophie as they cover the latest. This week in tech, Microsoft rolled out a feature to dissuade users from using Windows 11 on unsupported CPUs, Ubuntu flavors will no longer support Flatpak installs out-of-the-box, and VMware’s Bitnami began packaging apps for Arm CPUs. In security news this week, Dutch police apprehended 3 hackers involved in the theft and extortion of tens of millions of people’s data. In this week’s “Who Got Pwned?” segment, media conglomerate News Corp revealed that the hackers responsible for its 2022 breach had been in the system since early 2020. Finally, in Deja-News this week we talk about LastPass once again, but this time it’s a new breach. A LastPass employee's home computer was hacked, resulting in a decrypted company vault being compromised.

Catch up on the cybersecurity and tech news of the week with Don, Dan, and Sophie as they cover the latest. This week in tech, Microsoft created support for users running Windows 11 on Macs, and Microsoft’s email customers were reporting inboxes flooded with spam despite email filtering. Meanwhile, Linux dropped systemd 253, introducing a new tool to create Unified Kernel Image (UKI) files. This week in cybersecurity, Microsoft is patching 76 security issues in Windows and OS components, sounding the alarm that some are already being exploited. And finally, in this week’s “Who Got Pwned?” section of the show, GoDaddy revealed that the same group of hackers had access to their networks for 3 years, even though each breach had been detected, and the Scandinavian Airlines website was hacked, compromising the personal information for some customers.

Catch up on the cybersecurity and tech news of the week with Don, Dan, and Sophie as they cover the latest. This week, Asus placed the Promontory 21 chipset on a PCIe card, Microsoft is planning to replace Edge’s PDF reader with Adobe Acrobat, and Microsoft removed Internet Explorer from most Windows 10 PCs on February 14th, 2023. In cybersecurity news, Apple has a new zero-day flaw, Wyze security cameras and home monitoring were offline for two hours, and hackers breached Reddit to steal source code and internal data.

Catch up on the cybersecurity and tech news of the week with Don, Dan and Sophie as they cover the latest. This week, Microsoft made long-anticipated updates to their Defender program, Samsung hinted at a solution for the infamous 990 Pro Firmware issues, and Amazon released their plans for S3 security changes coming in April. In cybersecurity news, the Linux variant of Clop Ransomware has surfaced, Finland’s most wanted hacker was arrested in France, and flags were raised about the potential for ChatGPT to be used to create sophisticated malware.

Catch up on the tech news of the week with Don, Dan and Sophie as they cover the latest. This week, Apple introduced OS updates that include hardware security key support, Ubuntu announced that the pro version of the OS is available for up to 5 machines, and used Macbooks in excellent condition are being turned into scrap metal. In this week’s “Doh!” segment, Github was hacked, with hackers getting away with valuable assets. Then, in our “Who Got Pwned?” segment of the week, the US has announced their successful hacking of an infamous cyber-crime gang. To top it all off, the Technado crew discusses that unlike a fine wine, the LastPass breach just keeps getting worse with age.

This week Sophie and Daniel are joined by special guest Ronnie Wong as they discuss the tech news for the week. They start off the show by talking about Intel’s new thunderbolt (which has an insane transfer speed), then they discuss the end of Windows 10 and the massive Microsoft layoffs. Then they jump into a Don’t Make No Sense segment about the MSI motherboards that have secure boot turned off. In this week's Doh! segment, the team talks about a Massachusetts school having its lights on for over a year. Finally, they end the show by discussing the T-Mobile data breach that affected millions of customers.

This week Don and Daniel start off the show by welcoming a new host, then they discussed the end of Microsoft’s Surface Duo, the F.A.A.’s damaged database files, Wi-Fi 7, and Intel’s new innovative processor. In this week's Doh! segment, the team found out that 89% of the US Department of the Interior’s high-value assets didn't use multi-factor authentication. Lastly, in this week’s Deja News segment, they talk about the CircleCI breach where hackers stole customers’ secrets.

There was so much discussion about LastPass in the comments that Don and the crew answered some of the questions about the breach. Then, with CES wrapping up last week, the team looked at the best IT hardware to come out of the event like the Asus 3D Vivobook, Lenovo's latest Yoga book 9i, Lenovo's Tab Extreme, and MSI's router with smart antennas. In other news, they covered an update to Apple's butterfly keyboard saga, Amazon encrypting S3 buckets by default, and CircleCI suffering a catastrophic compromise.

The Technado crew is back for 2023 and spent some time digging into the LastPass latest from all angles. Is your data safe? Should you switch providers? How did this happen? But first, the team covered a change in Mozilla's Firefox user agent, a medical practice sending out a terminal diagnosis instead of a Christmas greeting, and a tech worker who got caught trying to emulate the crime from the movie Office Space.

It's the most wonderful time of the year, and that means it's time to look back at the best of Technado in 2022. In this special holiday episode, Don and Daniel make their 2023 predictions before Peter quizzes them to see how well they remember the articles they covered over the past 12 months. Spoiler alert - not that well.

Anthony Sequeira joined Don and Peter this week to take a look at the newest concept laptop from Dell with no screws or wires. In other news, the team covered GitHub sunsetting Atom, NIST retiring SHA-1, Chinese hackers exploiting a zero-day in Citrix gear, and a scam that cost a Canadian city almost half a million dollars. Finally, in tinfoil hat time, the guys debated whether a keylogger or a bug is behind some creepy behavior on Corsair keyboards.

Security researchers have figured out how to get around a web application firewall with a new technique that impacts several vendors. The Technado crew discussed that and Microsoft adding features to compete with Discord, updates to the snipping tool in Windows 11, support ending for Windows 7 and 8, and an update on the Raspberry Pi supply chain issues. Finally, they talked about a Fortinet bug allowing pre-auth remote code execution and what to do about it.

You'll be able to encrypt your Dropbox files soon, thanks to their acquisition of Boxcryptor. The Technado team discussed that as well as browsers yanking the TrustCor root certificate, Hive social going dark after a hack, Samsung's Android app-signing key leaking, and the discovery of a Florida state tax website vulnerability. Finally, in 'Deja News,' they discussed the latest with the LastPass breach and what that means for customers.

Good luck supporting your Huawei and ZTE hardware, as the US FCC bans imports of their products. The Technado team covered that as well as Intel launching a pay-as-you-go model, Epson scrapping laser printers, snooping concerns at computer repair shops, and Microsoft's report on US energy grid hacking efforts. Finally, the crew discussed the EU parliament declaring Russia a terrorism sponsor only to have their site hacked. Who could've seen that coming?

Fresh off the announcement of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7 last week, RHEL 9.1 is now out as well as AlmaLinux 9.1. In other news, the Technado team covered Microsoft Teams adding sign language support features, VMware Fusion supporting Apple silicon Macs, WSL hitting a stable release, and Iranian hackers hitting a US government agency with the Log4Shell exploit. Finally, they talked about a person who hid a knife inside a laptop and was caught by TSA.

Where have all the Raspberry Pis gone? The Technado team discusses the inventory issues and updates this week as well as Windows Defender coming to iOS and Android, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7 launching, a Google Pixel lock screen bypass, and the LockBit ransomware arrest in Canada. Finally, they talk about how worried the US Army should be about Russian code in their iOS app.

Microsoft's Linux distro, CBL-Delridge, is no more. However, the Technado team discussed the alternative in CBL Mariner. They also covered version 252 of Systemd, Dropbox's private Github repos getting exposed, the Red Cross looking to create a digital emblem, and AstraZeneca accidentally exposing patient data. Finally, they looked at a mistake within the Linux kernel affecting certain processes.

Rising energy costs, especially in Europe, are affecting cloud computing prices. The guys discussed that on this week's Technado along with the new Arm-powered Project Volterra from Microsoft, the new features of macOS Ventura, a fine for failing to stop a cyber-attack, and the Drizly CEO being cited by the FTC for his lack of security practices. Finally, in 'Who Got Pwned,' they covered the OpenSSL critical vulnerability and patch.

Rising energy costs, especially in Europe, are affecting cloud computing prices. The guys discussed that on this week's Technado along with the new Arm-powered Project Volterra from Microsoft, the new features of macOS Ventura, a fine for failing to stop a cyber-attack, and the Drizly CEO being cited by the FTC for his lack of security practices. Finally, in 'Who Got Pwned,' they covered the OpenSSL critical vulnerability and patch.

It was a busy week in tech news and Wes filled in for Don to help break it all down. They discussed Ubuntu's Kinetic Kudu release, Gartner's strange predictions for digital immune systems and virtual workspaces, a fully undetectable backdoor that was detected in Powershell, the impact of a Microsoft data leak, and how some people are grinding down their Ryzen 7000 chips for lower temperatures. Finally, they talked about the hacker who stole Ed Sheeran's unreleased music getting locked up.

With Daniel back from South Dakota, the Technado crew jumped right back into a busy week in tech. They covered Microsoft teaming up with Meta, the new Microsoft Surface Pro 9's processor options, Zeek getting backed into Windows, a thermal attack to steal passwords, and confusing updates to DisplayPort specs from VESA. Finally, they tried to unpack the details of a company being hacked via a sophisticated drone attack.

With Daniel out at Wild West Hackin' Fest, Don and Peter were joined by Wes Bryan to discuss this week's top tech news. They covered how the new Linux kernel could damage some LCD screens, Canonical's new Ubuntu Pro support, Google adding a cloud region in South Africa, the DoD pushing for utility security, and a major Fortinet bug that lets users bypass security. Finally, they looked at the leak of Intel's Alder Lake BIOS source code.

After making it through the hurricane last week, the Technado team got back to business. They covered Microsoft adding a VPN in their browser, the EU officially mandating USB-C, a couple of Microsoft Exchange 0-days, a slidable screen from Intel and Samsung, and hackers releasing data from LA schools. Finally, they talked about an Australian hacker that got roasted after backtracking on his demands.

The show's name really fits this week as the crew hunkers down for Hurricane Ian. However the news goes on and they covered the new Windows 22H2 update, a Chromebook from Framework, the Document Foundation charging for free LibreOffice, a couple hacking IHG hotels, and Morgan Stanley data showing up on resold hard drives. Finally, they looked at the craziness around time zones in the US and how they impact technology.

This week's news ran the gamut from hardware to software to security. The team covered the new themes in Windows Terminal, Intel changing its naming structure, the story of the last floppy-disk seller, and Microsoft Teams storing tokens in cleartext. Oops. Finally, in 'Who Got Pwned,' they discussed a major Chinese data breach and the recent Uber hack.

It was another exciting week in tech news, and the Technado team was there to cover it all. Sophie filled in for Peter to lead topics like Apple killing passwords in iOS 16 and macOS Ventura, an ex-Uber exec heading to trial, WiFi 7 speeds hitting 5 Gbps, a heatwave shutting down a Twitter data center, and a GifShell attack affecting Microsoft Teams. Finally, in the tinfoil hat segment, they looked at a Ukrainian hacker's effort to honey trap Russian soldiers with fake dating profiles.

For the first time in a long time, security wasn't the main headline of the week. Instead, the crew talked about Starlink coming to a major cruise line, a new underwater datacenter launch, Windows Defender catching some false-positives, Apple overhauling their anti-malware, and Dell laptops literally falling apart. Finally, they tried to decipher how next-gen USB could get double the speed out of the same cables.

We continue to see the impact of the Twilio breach, and the Technado team shared the latest on who is affected and how. In other news, they discussed Slack's free plan changes, 25 gig Internet service in Chatanooga, AMD's Zen4 updates, and Hyundai shipping cars with example encryption keys. Finally, Don shared how the Plex breach affected his weekend.

After taking a week off the news for BlackHat, the team had a lot to cover! Wes and Sophie filled in for Don as the team discussed Windows 11 Encryption issues, Google Fiber staging a comeback, Microsoft 365 flagged as a false positive by Meraki, and a man who built his own ISP to spite Comcast. Finally, in WTF, they debated if the World Excel Championships were real, as well as the story of a Janet Jackson song that crashes certain hard drives.

Peter and Daniel were at the Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas, Nevada meeting with some notable BlackHat attendees. Some, like John Hammond from Huntress and Shane Hasert from CyberGRX, may be well known to Technado fans while others, like Shane Harsch from SentinelOne and Tonia Dudley of Cofense, should be on your radar.

Intel plans to release Wi-Fi 7 to client PCs in 2024, Fedora 37 will offer support on Raspberry Pi 4 devices, Microsoft scripts will have stricter browser privacy protection, and post-quantum encryption was hacked by a single-core PC in an hour. And finally, in “Who Got Pwned”, the Twitter vulnerability exposed the data of 5 million account owners and Twillio had a data breach after an SMS phishing attack on employees.

It was a bad week over at Intel, and the Technado team broke down all their current issues. In other news, they covered the launch of Linux Mint 21 Cinnamon, Linux 5.19 being released from a MacBook, Hackers gaining access to restaurant payment terminals, and the 911 proxy service imploding after a breach. And finally, in 'Tin Foil Hat Time,' they confirmed that CERN isn't trying to open a portal to hell.

Don was out on vacation, but Technado never rests! With Wes Bryan joining the show, the team discussed Microsoft's announcement that Windows 11 is available for hobbyist PC builders, the impact of the European heatwave on Google Cloud and Oracle servers, a hardcoded password in the Confluence app causing chaos, and 32-bit Linux remaining unpatched for Intel vulnerabilities. Finally, they looked at some updates to previous stories in Deja News, including Microsoft once again blocking macros by default and Windows 11 turning on settings to shut down ransomware.

The Technado team was back together in the studio this week to discuss the new Intel Core i9-12900K benchmarks, Microsoft's shift in Windows development cycles, Unbreakable Oracle Linux 9's Btrfs support, Lenovo patching UEFI code execution vulnerabilities, and a phishing campaign that can get around MFA. Finally, the team talked about CIA hacker Joshua Shulte's conviction and how it compared to the Edward Snowden leak.

Even with Don in the UK and Peter in quarantine, the crew managed to get together for a socially-distanced Technado. They discussed Apple's public betas for iOS 16, macOS Ventura, and watchOS9, Drobo's bankruptcy filing, NIST's quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithms, a spear phishing attack on a crypto game, and Marriott confirming yet another breach. Finally, they covered the takedown of a billion-dollar scheme to traffic fake Cisco networking gear.

Don and Daniel are joined by Ronnie Wong this week to talk about the first laptop with a RISC-V processor that'll come out soon. Then, the team discussed bypassing Windows 11 install restrictions, Azure capacity issues, Microsoft Exchange servers getting hacked, how HackerOne handled its own ‘internal threat' actor, and British army crypto scams.

Don was back this week to help explain what happened at Cloudflare. Then, the team discussed the Windows 98 update for the Mars probe, the new Rocket 4 Plus Destroyer 2, Adobe Acrobat blocking antivirus access, and the poor benchmarks on the M2 MacBook Pro. Finally, they laughed about the IT worker in Japan who lost some important PII after a night at the bar.

Don was back this week to help explain what happened at Cloudflare. Then, the team discussed the Windows 98 update for the Mars probe, the new Rocket 4 Plus Destroyer 2, Adobe Acrobat blocking antivirus access, and the poor benchmarks on the M2 MacBook Pro. Finally, they laughed about the IT worker in Japan who lost some important PII after a night at the bar.

Chris Ward joined the Technado team this week to talk about the falling prices for GPUs. He and the team also discussed Microsoft's Defender coming to macOS and Android, Ubuntu Core 22, a fitting tribute to Internet Explorer, hackers playing Doom on an IKEA lamp, and allegations of nepotism at Google.

It was a busy week in hardware news, as the Technado team looked at Microsoft's move to ditch HDD boot drives, a new Quantum chip saving 9 millennia of computing time, and macOS planning to block unknown USB-C devices. In other news, the guys covered the hack of online gun shops, Jack Dorsey's new Web 5 plan, and a Google engineer who fears their AI chatbot became sentient.

Apple's WWDC is wrapped up, but how important were the announcements that came out of it? On this week's Technado, the guys break down the M2 processor specs, as well as the changes coming in macOS Ventura. In other news, they covered Microsoft adding WSL2 support in Server 2022, the FBI blocking an attack on a children's hospital, DuckDuckGo allowing certain Microsoft web trackers, and security concerns around Meeting Owl videoconferencing devices.

There were two big events generating headlines in the IT world: Computex and Google I/O. The guys covered the highs from Computex with Nvidia's Grace ARM server chip, AMD's Zen 4 releases, AMD's first PCIe 5.0 SSD, and Corsair's gaming laptop complete with a touch bar. Then, they lamented Google rehashing some past duds at I/O 2022 before looking at the upgrades in the new Framework laptop.

It was a busy week in tech with FreeBSD 13.1 being released, hackers easily opening and starting Tesla's, Google vetting open-source software libraries for security, a ransomware gang trying to overthrow the Costa Rican government, and security warnings about VMWare products. But the best story had to be the Zambian bank's technical director who responded to a ransomware attack in a way many have wanted to for years. That'll teach 'em!

Just when it seemed Rocky Linux was down for the count in its fight with Alma Linux to fill the CentOS gap, it's back with $26M in new funding. In other news, the Technado team discussed Western Digital's new 26TB drive, Windows 11 22H2 updates, CBL-Mariner 2.0 and CBL-Delridge Linux distros from Microsoft, and Nvidia's open-source Linux drivers. Finally, they talked about the NSA's promise of no backdoors in the new US encryption scheme.

It was a good week for anyone who hates passwords, as Apple, Google, and Microsoft detailed their proposed Passkey standard. In other news, Microsoft Edge overtook Apple Safari, Asus unveiled some new keyboards, hackers took advantage of a BIG-IP vulnerability at F5, and WordPress sites are hacked within seconds of setup. Finally, they covered Heroku's admission that credentials were stolen in a recent attack.

It was another busy week in the tech world, with Microsoft announcing a built-in Cloudflare VPN in Edge, Verbatim rolling out a new write-once SSD, GRAID's new GPU-based NVMe, and an international 'Declaration for the Future of the Internet.' In Deja news, the guys gave an update on QNAP's remote hacking issues and the NTFS Linux driver. Finally, they rolled out a new segment called 'The More You Know' where they broke down where the tech giants make their billions.

The team was back together for a busy week of news. Canonical launched Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, OpenBSD 7.1 came out with Apple silicon support, Tape storage usage rose in 2021, Microsoft disabled SMB1 in Windows 11 home, and hackers found an unremovable malware for Lenovo devices. The guys took a break from the news to play tech movie trivia and then finished off by saying goodbye to macOS Server and Fleetsmith before covering a critical Java security blunder.