IT SPARC Cast

This week on IT SPARC Cast - CVE of the Week, John Barger and Lou Schmidt dive into the massive ransomware attack that crippled global IT distributor Ingram Micro. The breach, allegedly carried out b…

In this episode of IT SPARC Cast - CVE of The Week, John and Lou break down two critical Linux vulnerabilities—CVE-2025-6018 and CVE-2025-6019—that could allow local users to escalate privileges all …

In this Episode of IT SPARC Cast – News Bytes, John and Lou break down a historic first meeting between Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds, sparking speculation about collaboration. They also cover Nvidia…

In this episode of IT SPARC Cast - Hot Take, John and Lou shine a spotlight on the crumbling façade of cloud reliability. Once upon a time, enterprise IT measured uptime in “nines”—with five nines (9…

In this episode of IT SPARC Cast - CVE of The Week, John and Lou break down CVE-2025-31324 — a critical remote code execution vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver’s Visual Composer. With a CVSS score of 9.…

In this episode of IT SPARC Cast - News Bytes, John and Lou break down the week’s biggest tech stories—from Amazon’s quiet plan to replace portions of its workforce with generative AI, to BlueNoroff’…

In this episode of IT SPARC Cast – CVE of the Week, John and Lou dig into Apple’s latest transparency report, which reveals how governments worldwide are requesting access to Apple user data at recor…

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In Episode 39 of IT SPARC Cast – News Bytes, John and Lou unpack how enterprise IT budgets are rapidly shifting toward AI projects, IBM’s ambitious plans for large-scale quantum…

In this inaugural “Hot Take” episode of IT SPARC Cast, John Barger and Lou Schmidt deliver a candid, unscripted conversation about the seismic shift coming to enterprise IT. Prompted by recent moves—…

In this episode of IT SPARC Cast - CVE of the Week, John and Lou explore a major development in cybersecurity: the collaborative initiative between Microsoft, Google, Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike,…

In this episode of IT SPARC Cast - News Bytes, John and Lou kick off with a hilarious-yet-creepy experiment that caused Claude to hallucinate its way out of a fictional business. Then, things get ser…

In this episode of IT SPARC Cast - CVE of the Week, John Barger and Lou Schmidt break down two freshly identified and actively exploited CVEs that have just been added to CISA’s Known Exploited Vulne…

In Episode 37 of IT SPARC Cast - News Bytes, John and Lou break down the moment ChatGPT refused a shutdown command, raising questions about AI autonomy. They also explore Microsoft’s new Copilot trai…

In the debut episode of our new CVE of the Week series, hosts John Barger and Lou Schmidt revisit one of the largest cybersecurity incidents involving children’s data in U.S. history: the PowerSchool…

In Episode 36 of IT SPARC Cast - News Bytes, John and Lou tackle the week’s biggest tech stories in under 20 minutes. They kick off with Signal’s pushback against Microsoft’s Recall feature and the b…

In this episode of IT SPARC Cast - Top T̴e̴n̴ Twenty, John Barger and Lou Schmidt complete the two-part series covering the Top Twenty Most Influential IT Pioneers That You Never Heard Of. This time,…

In Episode 35 of IT SPARC Cast, John and Lou take you through Cisco’s bold bet on quantum networking and its implications for encryption and data privacy. OpenAI shakes things up with new leadership …

In this episode of IT SPARC Cast - Top T̴e̴n̴ Twenty, John Barger and Lou Schmidt dive deep into the first half of their Top 20 countdown of the most influential IT pioneers you’ve probably never hea…

IT SPARC Cast Top Ten S01E07 - Top 10 Biggest Networking Companies That No Longer Exist

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In this episode of IT SPARC Cast - Top Ten, hosts John Barger and Lou Schmidt count down the …

In Episode 34 of IT SPARC Cast, John and Lou dive deep into a week of automation, acceleration, and AI gone awry. TLS certificates are about to live shorter lives than ever before—forcing IT pros int…