Tag: the hacks

Mar 14, 2023

The SVB Meltdown and Tech Start Ups

Tom and Chunga had just entered their respective studios to record this weeks episode of The Hacks, when BOOM! Breaking news reports started coming in saying that Silicon Valley Bank had just collapsed, which immediately changed the topic of the show!…

Mar 7, 2023

PyPi Found Stuffed With AWS Keys and Malware

Chunga wants to give a quick shout out to programmers in the U.K.! Once again, a guy in England developed a scanning tool, and found 57 API access keys for AWS and a bunch of Malware in PyPi. Tom Forbes built this tool in Rust to automatically scan…

Mar 1, 2023

The Smallest Mis-Steps Lead To Catastrophe

It’s been a long, hard winter. The western U.S. is suffering from record breaking arctic weather and everyone is getting sick. Somehow Chunga has managed to avoid it–until now. He hasn’t been sick since he had Covid 2-years ago! Tom says his timing…

Feb 21, 2023

Was a Major Wireless Provider Attacked Last Week?

If you’ve been listening to The Hacks for any length of time, you know that Tom and Chunga LOVE a good conspiracy theory. So far, 2023 has given them a fountain of strange happenings, to keep their tin foil hats happy! T-Mobile (Tom and Chunga…

Feb 14, 2023

Chat GPT, Is It Good Or Nah...

In this episode of The Hacks, Tom and Chunga are talking about something they probably should’ve discussed before now. Chat GPT is taking the world by storm. It launched in early December 2022 and is already boasting more than a million users….

Feb 7, 2023

FBI Stops a Five Power Plant Terrorist Attack!

Tom and Chunga have learned something about you! You REALLY don’t like it when we talk about self driving cars. Sorry! A bonus episode to make up for it is coming soon! This episode of The Hacks however, is much more serious. This…

Jan 31, 2023

Tom Is Wrong! He's So Excited About It!

Car lovers this episode is for you! Everyday in Chunga’s city, (Las Vegas) there’s a news story about some poor, unfortunate, soul crashing their electric car, while its in self drive mode. Because of this, Chunga is of the opinion that self driving…

Jan 24, 2023

You've Been Laid Off! Now What?

Tom has made a trip to Las Vegas to hang out with Chunga at Hacks HQ! It’s too bad they couldn’t be talking about something more fun. It’s a scary time to be working in tech, we all know this. Layoff’s are all too common and tech industry…

Jan 18, 2023

The Top 5 Cyber Security Threats In 2023

You’re going to see a lot about this in 2023. Experts in this field are predicting that this year is going to be a record setting year, when it comes to cyber crime. Tom agrees with this opinion. He says 2023 is going to be really rough for both…