Technado, Ep. 298: Dish Network Disappeared From the Internet After Cyber Attack

Catch up on the cybersecurity and tech news of the week with Don, Dan, and Sophie as they cover the latest. This week in tech, it’s all about Microsoft as it begins force-installing its Defender app on Windows 10 and 11 users, AI-powered Bing Chats showed up in Windows 11 taskbars, and Mac users no longer need a paid Microsoft 365 subscription to use Outlook. In security news this week, BlackLotus became the first malware to bypass Secure Boot. In this week’s “Who Got Pwned?” segment, Dish Network employees and customers were kicked offline by a likely cyber-attack. Finally, in Behind Bars, suspects likely from the ransomware family known as DoppelPaymer were arrested in Germany and Ukraine along with their equipment.
This week’s rundown:
00:00 - Introduction
02:18 - Microsoft Defender App Starts Force Installing on Windows PCs (petri.com) petri.com/microsoft-defender-...
07:46 - New Windows 11 update puts AI-powered Bing Chat directly in the taskbar (Ars Technica) arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/...
13:57 - Microsoft Announces Outlook for Mac is Now Free to Use (MacRumors) www.macrumors.com/2023/03/06/...
21:57 - BlackLotus Becomes First UEFI Bootkit Malware to Bypass Secure Boot on Windows 11 (thehackernews.com) thehackernews.com/2023/03/bla...
30:13 - Dish Network goes offline after likely cyberattack, employees cut off (bleepingcomputer.com) www.bleepingcomputer.com/news...
40:40 - DoppelPaymer ransomware suspects arrested in Germany and Ukraine (sophos.com) nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2023...

[@ericcarr4evr]

Problems started a couple of weeks ago for us. Unable to pay our bill because our account of 16 years cannot be found and now we have complete loss of service and cannot get customer service on the phone. Thanks Dish!

[@Drewscottsman7749]

I was definitely affected by this dish network fiasco. I can't even pay my bill because I can't login and update my address. I'm cancelling service as soon as I can

[@rlocone]

V was ahead of it's time. One of my favs.

[@SomeInfoSecDude]

I m in IT. Love your webcasts. Keep it up!

[@Crowfolk]

I have not had a Dish signal for two weeks now!!!!

[@shootermcgavin4999]

Love this show. Thanks guys.

[@mwyn5085]

😂🤣love this! Love how u manage to make this IT info entertaining! 👍🏻👏🏻 ☺️

[@mikereese15]

Sophie should watch the original V mini series too. 😆

[@ericmcclelland1040]

So if Sophie is watching all these 80s movies does this mean Don and Dan are going to listen to Fresh Air and Radio Lab? :-)

[@scottalexander814]

10k totally worth it for Disney world!!!

[@luananoel6786]

DISH network is consistently getting worse and worse. I'm getting tired of paying for services I'm not receiving. Your service isn't worth the headaches you have to deal with.

[@MikeTVest]

On the subject of lock picking Sophia and others should check out Deviant Ollam teaching visually impaired people lock picking on TH-cam.