IT SPARC Cast

In this episode of IT SPARC Cast – News Bytes, John and Lou unpack OpenAI’s controversial decision to escalate certain ChatGPT conversations to law enforcement—and what that means for user privacy an…

In this episode of IT SPARC Cast – CVE of the Week, John and Lou dive into a stealthy supply chain attack involving a malicious npm package impersonating NodeMailer. This package—nodejs-smtp—was desi…

In this episode of IT SPARC Cast – News Bytes, John and Lou dissect the tension between privacy and surveillance as the FTC doubles down on encryption protection amid global pressures. Then it’s into…

Russian state-sponsored hackers are actively exploiting a seven-year-old Cisco vulnerability—CVE-2018-0171—and turning forgotten infrastructure into surveillance tools. On this episode of IT SPARC Ca…

In this episode of IT SPARC Cast – News Bytes, John and Lou take on three stories that highlight where enterprise IT is innovating—and where it’s still falling short. Ubiquiti’s UniFi Network 9.4 is …

This week on CVE of the Week, John and Lou break down the rising threat of QuirkyLoader, a new malware loader delivering Remote Access Trojans and info-stealers through DLL sideloading. But the real …

In the Season 2 premiere of IT SPARC Cast - News Bytes, John & Lou return with a fresh batch of IT news and sharp insights. From the ethics of digital afterlives to AI-enhanced help desks, this episo…

We’re kicking off Season 2 of IT SPARC Cast - CVE of the Week with a critical vulnerability warning that should make every DevOps and IT leader take notice. This episode dives into the shocking disco…

In this season finale of IT SPARC Cast - News Bytes, John & Lou close out Season 1 with a jam-packed episode of enterprise IT updates. First up, Ubiquiti releases a self-hosted UniFi OS Server for MS…

In this eye-opening episode of IT SPARC Cast - CVE of the Week, John and Lou dive into a double-breach nightmare involving the TEA app—a dating safety app marketed to women. What began as a leak of 7…

In this third installment of our future-casting series, John & Lou dive headfirst into the radical transformation of enterprise IT in 2055—two decades after the convergence of AGI, Super Intelligence…

In this episode of IT SPARC Cast - News Bytes, John & Lou highlight three big stories shaking up the tech world.

First, they explore how Google is tightening open-source security with OSS Rebuild—an …

This week on IT SPARC Cast – CVE of the Week, John and Lou sound the alarm on two critical zero-day vulnerabilities impacting on-premise Microsoft SharePoint servers: CVE-2025-53770 and CVE-2025-5377…

In this episode of IT SPARC Cast – Hot Take, John & Lou take you on a deep-dive into what Enterprise IT might look like in 2045, assuming the convergence of AGI, Super Intelligence, quantum computing…

This week on IT SPARC Cast, John and Lou unpack UniFi Network 9.3’s biggest update yet, talk about why quantum security is no longer just a buzzword, and break down the soap opera acquisition collaps…

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In this episode of IT SPARC Cast – CVE of the Week, John and Lou dive into a troubling situation involving SonicWall’s SMA 100 series firewalls. Despite devices being fully patc…

In this Hot Take episode of IT SPARC Cast, John Barger and Lou Schmidt unpack a mind-bending scenario that feels like it’s ripped straight from science fiction—but could it be closer than we think? W…

This week on IT SPARC Cast – CVE of the Week, John and Lou dive into one of the most critical vulnerabilities to ever hit enterprise wireless networks: CVE-2025-44957 and a cluster of related flaws t…

In this of IT SPARC Cast - News Bytes, John and Lou explore the strange reality where human call center agents are now being mistaken for AI. They also break down the Linux Foundation’s adoption of t…

In this episode of IT SPARC Cast - Hot Take, John Barger and Lou Schmidt break down the latest in the $14 billion HPE acquisition of Juniper Networks, now officially approved by the U.S. Department o…