Podcast Episodes

2.5 Admins 209: Faulty Defaults

Insecure SSH implementations and a weak key that let a researcher control 200 MW of electrical capacity reignites the debate about versioned protocols vs pluggable protocols, follow-up on sharing fil…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

2.5 Admins 208: All CPUs suck

Forcing Windows to undo updates and a separate IPv6 vulnerability, hardware bugs in AMD and Intel CPUs, and using Samba on Linux with Active Directory.

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Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

2.5 Admins 207: Insecure Boot

Secure boot is compromised on hundreds of devices, Amazon’s desperate attempt to make money from Alexa, and how to decide which open source software on GitHub to trust.

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Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

2.5 Admins 206: CrowdStruck

How and why the recent huge Windows outage was caused by a bad CrowdStrike update and how it could have been avoided, a hilariously dumb ESXi vulnerability, and using SAS drives with a PCIe card.

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Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

2.5 Admins 205: Dogs Hate BTC

How a Bitcoin mine made life in a Texas town absolutely miserable, why paying for extended support for end of life Windows versions is just doubling down on technical debt, and the best way to manage…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

2.5 Admins 204: Maybe Don’t 5

A widely-used login system is still using MD5 which is bad news, miscreants took over some domains when they moved from Google to Squarespace, Linksys’ sloppy app isn’t a huge problem but is a bad si…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

2.5 Admins 203: Yet more free consulting

We didn’t get to all of your questions for our Episode 200 free consulting special so here is another full episode of your questions and our answers. Our thoughts on a new UK smart devices law, backi…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

2.5 Admins 202: Microsoft’s Underwater Again

Why we didn’t mention pocket fluff when we talked about USB-C charging issues, Microsoft abandons its promising underwater data center experiment and didn’t monitor it’s SSL certs, why you should be …

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

2.5 Admins 201: CVEs everywhere

Vulnerabilities in Asus hardware make us think there should be some regulations about what can be sold as a router, a VPN feature that we hadn’t heard of is removed from Windows, and why we don’t bel…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

2.5 Admins 200: Even more free consulting

It’s our episode 200 free consulting special. Jim and Allan answer your questions about hard drive availability, USB-C robustness, ZFS performance on a VPS, cold storage with a 2.5″ form factor, how …

Published on 1 year, 6 months ago