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Episode 380: Terminal Fault Aug 16, 2018

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Microsoft’s making radical changes to Windows 10, and a new type of speculative execution attack on Intel’s processors is targeting cloud providers.

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Episode 379: SegmentSmack is Whack Aug 10, 2018

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Take down a Linux or FreeBSD box with just 2kpps of traffic, own Homebrew in 30 minutes, and infiltrate an entire network via the Inkjet printers.

It’s a busy TechSNAP week.

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Episode 378: Two-Factor Fraud Aug 02, 2018

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Reddit’s Two Factor procedures fail, while Google’s prevents years of attacks. We’ll look at the different approaches, and discuss the fundamental weakness of Reddit’s approach.

Plus a Spectre attack over the network, BGP issues take out Telegram, and more!

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Episode 377: Linux Under Pressure Aug 01, 2018

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Some new tools will give you better insights into your system under extreme load, and we flash back to the days of AOL and discuss the new way social hackers are spreading malware.

Plus the death of a TLD, the return of SamSam, and more!

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psi: pressure stall information for CPU, memory, and IO v2 — PSI aggregates and reports the overall wallclock time in which the tasks in a system (or cgroup) wait for contended hardware resources.
Chinese “hackers” are sending malware via snail mail — The trick is simple: a package arrives with a Chinese postmark containing a rambling message and a small CD. The CD, in turn, contains a set of Word files that include script-based malware. These scripts run when the victims access them on their computers, presumably resulting in compromised systems.
The death of a TLD
SamSam: The (almost) $6 million ransomware — Through original analysis, interviews and research, and by collaborating closely with industry partners and a specialist cryptocurrency monitoring organisation, Sophos has uncovered new details about how the secretive and sophisticated SamSam ransomware is used, who’s been targeted, how it works and how it’s evolving.
Open sourcing oomd, a new approach to handling OOMs — As our infrastructure has scaled, we’ve found that an increasing fraction of our machines and networks span multiple generations. One side effect of this multigenerational production environment is that a new software release or configuration change might result in a system running healthily on one machine but experiencing an out-of-memory (OOM) issue on another.
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Episode 376: Google Don’t Front Jul 26, 2018

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Google and Amazon recently shutdown Domain Fronting. Their abrupt change has created a building backlash.

We’ll explain what Domain Fronting is, how activists can use it to avoid censorship, and why large organizations are compelled to disable it.

Plus how road navigation systems can be spoofed with $223 in hardware, and another bad Bluetooth bug.

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Episode 375: Surprise Root Access Jul 19, 2018

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Google's Cloud Platform suffers an outage, and iPhones in India get owned after a very specific attack.

Plus how a malware author built a massive 18,000 strong Botnet in one day, and Cisco finds more "undocumented" root passwords.

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Episode 374: Quantum Resistant Encryption Jul 13, 2018

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Good progress is being made on post-quantum resilient computing. We’ll explain how they’re achieving it, the risks facing traditional cryptography.

Plus how bad defaults led to the theft of military Drone docs, new attacks against LTE networks, more!

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Episode 373: FreeBSD Already Does That Jul 05, 2018

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Allan Jude and Wes sit-down for a special live edition of the TechSNAP program.

Joined by Jed and Jeff they have a wide ranging organic conversation.

Special Guest: Allan Jude.

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Episode 372: Logs and Metrics and Traces, Oh My! Jun 14, 2018

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Netflix has learned the hard way how to utilize all the logs, we cover their lessons in their journey to build a fully observable system.

Plus the Lazy State FPU bug that cropped up this week, backdoored Docker images, your questions, and more!

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Episode 371: They Never Learn Jun 07, 2018

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Microsoft puts a data center under the ocean, and they might be onto something. The Zip Slip vulnerability sneaks into your software, and VPNFilter turns out to be more complicated than first known.

Plus the mass exploit of Drupalgeddon2 continues, we break down why, a batch of questions, and more.

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