David Bombal

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Can you recover working software from a photograph of a microchip? Embedded systems reverse engineer Travis Goodspeed demonstrates how to extract the original Game Boy’s 256-byte boot ROM from a microscopic photograph of the mask ROM inside its CPU. The source image was created by combining 22 microscope photographs captured at 50x magnification. Using his free, open-source Mask ROM Tool, Travis m...

Your internet speed can look fine while your Wi-Fi is still failing. Packet loss, latency, congested channels, interference and poor configuration can all damage performance, but a normal speed test will not show you the full picture. In this video, I test the Ookla Speedtest Pulse, a pocket-sized Wi-Fi 7 diagnostic tool that measures more than 25 network metrics in around 45 seconds. We test Wi-F...

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Thank you to Threatlocker for sponsoring my trip to Black Hat so I can interview amazing people. Jen Easterly joins David Bombal to discuss why today’s cybersecurity problem may actually be a software quality problem. For decades, users and organizations have been blamed for failing to patch systems, change default passwords, or enable MFA. Jen argues that the bigger question is whether software v...

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Hackers are using overlooked IoT devices such as IP cameras, printers and smart speakers to gain access to networks and spread ransomware. Philip Wylie explains how an outdated IP camera became a ransomware gateway, why default passwords and poor segmentation remain serious risks, and how to protect your network using separate VLANs, firmware updates, monitoring and zero-trust controls. The interv...

Two Cisco training veterans break down how to know you are ready for the CCNA exam, what changes in CCNA 2.0, and whether the CCNA is still worth it in 2026. Brian Bays has been teaching official Cisco classes since 2000. Michael Aldridge has been writing practice exam content since 2001. In this interview they answer the questions I get asked constantly: how long should I study, do I need physica...

Agentic AI is putting a 400x load on enterprise networks. Cisco and NTT Data experts reveal why only 13% of leaders successfully scale AI, the nightmare of quantum threats, and how to secure your infrastructure. Big thank you to NTT DATA for sponsoring this video. Book an AI Infrastructure Readiness Assessment using one of the following links: https://services.global.ntt/en-us/cam... or https://se...

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Big thanks to Cisco for sponsoring this video and sponsoring my trip to Cisco Live Vegas. Cisco has officially announced a major update to the CCNA, moving from version 1.1 to the new CCNA 2.0 blueprint. Recorded live at Cisco Live, David Bombal sits down with Cisco certification insiders Hank and Quinn to dissect exactly what these changes mean for your career, what entry-level networking topics...

Big thanks to Cisco for sponsoring this video and sponsoring my trip to Cisco Live Vegas 2026. Network engineers, are you ready for 2026? Learn how to deploy an AI agent directly into your CLI using Cisco MCP and Claude to automate network configurations safely. In this tutorial with Karim from Cisco, we explore how to build a custom AI skill (Iris) using Anthropic's Claude Code and Cisco'...