Network Break
The Network Break podcast keeps you informed with fast, focused analysis of IT news, products, tech trends & business outcomes. Published weekly.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 46 minutes
- Episodes
- 260
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
NB522: Git Turns 20, An iPhone Airlift, Cybersec Silence Speaks Volumes
Take a Network Break! Guest co-host Ned Bellavance steps in for Johna this week. We start with a Fortinet vulnerability, and then opine on a memo from Shopify’s CEO on the company requiring and measu…
00:53:43 |
Mon 14 Apr 2025
NB521: Optics Advances in the Data Center; Google Extends Gmail’s End-to-End Encryption
Take a Network Break! We check in on a serious Firefox vulnerability, explore NIST’s latest post-quantum encryption algorithm, and discuss a broken auto-update functionality in VMware Workstation. Ne…
00:42:55 |
Mon 07 Apr 2025
NB520: When Good LLMs Do Bad Things, Dell’s Workforce Downsizes and Quantum Key Distribution From Space
Grab a virtual doughnut to blaze through this week’s IT news with Johna Johnson and John Burke as Drew Conry-Murray is enjoying his glazed, filled and sprinkled vacation donuts. Today, we’re going t…
00:25:24 |
Mon 31 Mar 2025
NB519: Google Bids $32 Billion for Cloud Security Startup; NVIDIA Makes Nice With Quantum Computing
Take a Network Break! This week we cover Google’s $32 billion acquisition of CNAPP provider Wiz, Cloudflare offerings for AI security and support for post-quantum encryption, and NVIDIA’s pledge to o…
00:40:47 |
Mon 24 Mar 2025
NB518: Clock Starts For New Intel CEO; Arista Load Balancing Targets AI Infrastructure
Take a Network Break! We start with warnings about an Apple Webkit zero day and ransonware exploits against known Fortinet vulnerabilites, and discuss attribution issues with the X DDoS attack. Intel…
00:38:16 |
Mon 17 Mar 2025
NB517: TSMC Pledges $165 Billion for US Chip Manufacturing; Will the CHIPS Act Get Axed?
Take a Network Break! This week we’re joined by guest analyst Tom Hollingsworth of The Futurum Group. We start with red alerts from Broadcom on multiple vulnerabilities and an emergency patch from Ci…
00:46:39 |
Mon 10 Mar 2025
NB516: Cisco, Nvidia ASIC Deal Chases Enterprise AI; Juniper Welcomes Third-Party LLMs
Take a Network Break! This week we start with a couple of follow-ups and a Red Alert, and then jump into tech news. Cisco and Nvidia team up to put Cisco ASICs and the Nexus NOS into Nvidia Ethernet …
00:24:46 |
Mon 03 Mar 2025
NB515: Quantum Computing’s Future Looking More Certain; Arista Posts Record 2024 Revenues
Lots of good stuff in this week’s Network Break. Microsoft announces an 8-qubit quantum chip and declares that practical quantum computing is years, not decades, away. D-Wave says its quantum compute…
00:27:32 |
Mon 24 Feb 2025
NB514: Cisco, Juniper Announce New Switches; SolarWinds Goes Private in $4.4 Billion Buyout
Take a Network Break! We start with some Red Alert vulnerabilities to get your blood pumping, and then dive into networking news. Cisco announces new data center switches with AMD Pensando DPUs that …
00:38:20 |
Tue 18 Feb 2025
NB513: UK Demands Apple Backdoor; AI Spending: Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop
Take a Network Break! We start with some red alerts for Cisco ISE, Zyxel, Microsoft, and a Web manager suite called WeGIA. US senators and security experts sound the alarm about DOGE employees introd…
00:39:15 |
Mon 10 Feb 2025
NB512: US Objects to HPE-Juniper Wedding; Cheeky DeepSeek Freaks VCs
Take a Network Break! The US Justice Department blocks the HPE-Juniper merger with a surprise lawsuit, DeepSeek shakes up the AI world, and Broadcom rolls out quantum-safe Fibre Channel controllers. …
00:29:55 |
Mon 03 Feb 2025
NB511: Cisco Sells Security Blanket for AI Nightmares; Stratoshark Captures System Calls
Take a Network Break! We start with critical vulnerabilities affecting the Android OS, Cisco Meeting Management, and SonicWall, and then discuss a report that tens of thousands of Fortinet security a…
00:38:28 |
Tue 28 Jan 2025
NB510: CISA Says US Tech Inherently Insecure; AI Now Included in Google Workspace
Take a Network Break! Guest co-host John Burke joins Drew Conry-Murray for this week’s analysis of tech news. They discuss a string of serious vulnerabilities in Wavlink Wi-Fi routers, Fortinet takin…
00:47:46 |
Mon 20 Jan 2025
NB509: FCC to Raise Funds for Rip-and-Replace of Chinese Telco Gear; Billionaire Space Race Takes Off
Take a Network Break! We start with serious CVEs for Perl and Ivanti. On the news front, the FCC wants to license spectrum to raise money to help US telcos rip out Chinese network equipment–even thou…
00:29:45 |
Mon 13 Jan 2025
NB508: Google Serves Up Custom AI and Quantum Chips; Nokia Puts Muscle Behind SONiC
Take a Network Break! This is our final show for 2024. We start with critical vulnerabilities in Ivanti and OpenWrt, and then discuss what effect a proposed bill from US Senator Ron Wyden would have …
00:24:09 |
Mon 16 Dec 2024
NB507: Arista Announces Stackable Switches; FBI Recommends Encrypted Messaging
Take a Network Break! This week we warn of significant vulnerabilities in WhatsUp Gold and Cisco NX-OS. We also discuss US federal reaction to the penetration of US telco networks by Chinese state ac…
00:42:04 |
Mon 09 Dec 2024
NB506: Billions Flow for US Chips; FCC Lets T-Mobile, SpaceX Make Phone Calls from Orbit
Take a Network Break! We’ve got a full menu for our post-Thanksgiving episode. We start with a host of critical CVEs affecting Veritas and a couple more for QNAP. Cisco announces EOL for two version …
00:24:31 |
Tue 03 Dec 2024
NB505: NetBox Makes Lateral Moves with New Products; Submarine Cable Cuts Raise Suspicions
Take a Network Break! We start with a brief follow-up on our CVE coverage, and then dive into a serious one-two set of vulnerabilities being exploited in Palo Alto Networks software, VMware taking a …
00:40:34 |
Tue 26 Nov 2024
NB504: Cisco Updates Licensing, Branding with Wi-Fi 7; Google Cloud To Require MFA
Take a Network Break! This week we get an update on SonicWall’s new firewall warranty. We also cover Cisco’s Wi-Fi 7 launch; in addition to new APs, Cisco also updates its branding and rolls out “sim…
00:44:43 |
Mon 18 Nov 2024
NB503: Apple Buys Stake in Satellite Telecom Company; Arista Enjoys AI Revenue Bump
Take a Network Break! This week we cover a serious Cisco vulnerability, SonicWall offering a firewall warranty, and a security advisory from ID provider Okta. Apple buys a stake in a satellite teleco…
00:32:54 |
Tue 12 Nov 2024
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