Show Notes
Buffer Overflow: Tin Foil Hat of Dooooom!
Episode 77
Robots… in SPAAAACE, UEFI OMGs, and The Great Linus Torvalds meltdown of 2018
Hosts
Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager
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Kimberly DeFilippi, Project Coordinator
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Brenda Heisler, Resource Coordinator
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Hank Yee, Delivery Manager
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Longer Topics
Japan has landed 2 rovers on an asteroid
UEFI OMG
- ESET researchers discover LoJax, the first-ever UEFI rootkit
- Thus, Microsoft can scare people from ever installing another operating system in the first place.
- You wanna know how big MBR is? Apparently, MBR is 512 bytes
- Totally unsurprisingly, the UEFI malware was most likely related to a Russian hacking group called Sednit.
The Great Linus Torvalds meltdown of 2018
Lightning Round
- SiriusXM to buy Pandora for 3.5 Billion.. with a b?!?
- Nokia now officially allowing unlocked Bootloaders to developers
- iOS 12 came out and the Internet is MAAAAAD.. But that’s like, just what the Internet does
- In the wake of natural disaster, modern tech like solar and wind recover quickly. Coal… not so much
- DuckDuckGo traffic starting to get serious, amassing over 29 million searches for the first time this week
- Manufacturers don’t update device code fast enough, and Steve Google is getting SALTY
Music Credits
Intro: Jason Shaw – Tech Talk
Outro: Jason Shaw – Feels Good 2 B
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