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Oct 8, 2024

Does Your Business Have a "Regressive Gene"?

Tom is a big fan of geneology, are you familiar with it? If not, it’s the study of ones family history, and ancestors. Chunga’s grandparents were big fans of geneology and created a hightly detailed blueprint of how Chunga became…

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Jul 30, 2024

STRIKE! Is A.I. Ruining Video Games?

In his other life, Chunga is a voice actor and is a member of several acting unions. Lately, that means he’s always on strike for one reason or another. Well, its happening again… This time, voice actors are striking against the video game…

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Jul 16, 2024

SO MANY CYBER-ATTACKS!!

Tom has lost his wallet! This has never happened before! If you find it, will you please let him know? Although his fresh back from his vacation, Tom is feeling anything but relaxed and recharged. In truth, he feels like he came home…

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Jun 18, 2024

Data Center Drama

For a long time, Tom has wanted to do an episode of The Hacks that’s centered around what he refers to as data center “bloopers”. Chunga isn’t entirely sure what he means by this. Tom has always been amazed by the cathedral like way in which data…

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Sep 9, 2020

Hacking the U.S. Power Grid

Chunga has been complaining for years that the U.S. Power Grid is extremely vulnerable and could easily be hacked or destroyed. He says every time he tries to talk about it, everyone looks at him like he’s crazy… Everyone that is, except Tom. The…

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Sep 1, 2020

SecOps vs. North Korean Hackers

The North Koreans are stealing lots of money. They’re very good at it. The truth is if you don’t have SecOps (Security Operations) dialed in, and buttoned up from top to bottom, you could be their next target! The world got their first taste of what…

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Aug 25, 2020

Creating Irresistible IOT!

Tom and Chunga are talking about IOT (Internet of Things) in this episode of The Hacks! Recently, Chunga read an article which featured industry experts claiming that regardless of size, virtually all IOT development projects will take at least twice…

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Aug 18, 2020

Cyber Hygiene From the Inside Out

In this episode of The Hacks, Tom and Chunga are talking about cyber hygiene. Recently, at Black Hat Virtual, Tom gave a speech about how most companies are focused on dealing with infrastructure vulnerabilities in a way that doesn’t actually protect…

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Aug 11, 2020

Is the Cloud Ruining Open Source?

There have been some rumblings. To be honest, you could safely say that they’re straight-up accusations. Some have even gone as far as to say that there’s a conspiracy. There’s a growing chorus of tech industry experts that are claiming the cloud is…

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Aug 4, 2020

The Most Common Type of Breach In 2020...So Far.

In this episode of The Hacks, Tom and Chunga are talking about the most common type of breach so far this year. Black Hat Virtual is underway and as part of SaltStacks coverage, we are taking a new look at a report we did at the end of last year…

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