The Lighthouse IT Podcast

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - March 21st, 2025 This week, we discuss the massive security update for Windows; make sure you install it as soon as possible! Additionally, more security updates include a new VMware exploit that has been discovered and patched. We now have the first reported incident of an AI-created ransomware attack, with the unfortunate victim being Sorbonne University. Reddit co-fo...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - March 7th, 2025 This week, Matt and Griff discuss their favorite computer manufacturer, Framework, and their upcoming releases. To no one's surprise, another Fortinet vulnerability has been discovered and patched, but not that many people have installed the patch. While cybersecurity knowledge is becoming more common, it does not always apply to new technology, as m...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - February 21st, 2025 This week, Matt and Griff discuss OpenAI's allegations that DeepSeek used OpenAI's models to train DeepSeek's open-source model. Bing is seeing a rise in search engine usage and authority due to its collaboration with ChatGPT, with some companies reporting better results from Bing Ads than Google Ads. Microsoft removed the price wall for...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - February 7th, 2025 This week, Matt and Griff discuss Google releasing the source code for Pebble OS and allowing for the creation of a new Pebble smartwatch. Finally! Sweden has seized a ship known as Vezhen over suspicions that it is directly responsible for the recent damage to the Baltic Sea fiber data cable running to Latvia. Last year, UnitedHealth reported that 10...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - December 27th, 2024 This week, Matt and Griff discuss how Amazon Auto now lets you buy a Hyundai online, how Automattic must restore access to WordPress.com, sparking a very passive-aggressive response, Ev Williams introduced his new app, Mozi, designed to help facilitate in-person connections, Instagram launched 'Trial Reels,' allowing users to test new content with ge...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - December 13th, 2024 This week, Matt and Griff discuss Meta's ambitious $10B plan to build a world-spanning undersea fiber-optic cable. The countdown for TikTok continues as the Appeals Court has upheld the decision that TikTok must be sold or banned in the United States, although they now plan to appeal the Supreme Court. The Browser Company is now working on developing...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - November 29th, 2024 This week, Matt and Griff discuss recent security updates for MacOS, iOS, and VMware, including active exploitation of vulnerabilities and a Zero-Day flaw in Palo-Alto Firewalls enabling authentication bypass and root access. Finnish authorities suspect sabotage in the C-Lion1 data cable break. Amazon leaked data on 2.8M employees, while Chinese hack...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - November 15th, 2024 This week, Matt and Griff discuss Apple's updates to the Mac Mini hardware, Walmart is pushing hard towards eCommerce, even going so far as to implement a brand integration into Roblox and integrate actionable AI into its customer support chatbots.  To everyone's shock and surprise  (we are not actually surprised by this), another Fortinet vulnerabil...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - November 1st, 2024 This week, Matt and Griff discuss the recent discovery of the largest prime number known to date, and holy cow, it's a big one. Also, do you remember when Windows 10 was going to be Microsoft's last OS? Lighthouse IT Solutions remembers. But unfortunately, it doesn't matter anymore since Microsoft announced Windows 10's end of life will happen in less...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - October 18th, 2024 This week, Matt and Griff discuss the growing dispute between WordPress.org and WP Engine over their contributions to the open-source project vs. their monetization of it. The internet domain .io has seen a spike in popularity from tech companies, but a potential upcoming change in domain ownership could also cause other unexpected changes to come. Cl...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - October 4th, 2024 This week, Matt and Griff discuss the discovery that Meta has been scraping public posts on Facebook and Instagram since 2007 and using that data to train their AI models. TikTok is hoping to avoid a ban in the U.S. without selling themselves and has taken their plight to the U.S. Court of Appeals. Additionally, TikTok has recently implemented search a...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - September 20th, 2024 This week, Matt and Griff discuss Yelp filing an antitrust lawsuit against Google on the grounds of Google unfairly dominating local search and advertising. Also unfortunate for Google, the DOJ recently ruled against them in their recent antitrust case, finding Google to be guilty of maintaining a "trifecta of monopolies" in the search mar...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - September 6th, 2024 This week, Matt and Griff discuss how issues with the Boeing Starliner have led NASA to drop it from use, the approach of Microsoft's new Windows Recall AI feature and the potential cybersecurity risks, the FTC recently imposed a ban on the buying and selling of fake reviews online, the rise of AI and its eager embrace from search engines and the...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - August 23rd, 2024 This week, Matt & Griff discuss Apple Mail's latest update using AI to create and display summaries of your inbox instead of just the first line of emails. Reddit is strongly hinting at the introduction of paywalls on its site, possibly hiding popular subreddits behind a pricetag. The Google Graveyard grows as Chromecast is discontinued for the...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - August 9th, 2024 This week, Matt & Griff discuss the tension in the cybersecurity industry after the Broadcom takeover of VMware threatens massive price hikes. Some items about the CrowdStrike outage and how to recover from it. AT&T has suffered a massive data breach, with data from nearly all its wireless customers exposed. Spotify has ambitions to be more than...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - July 30th, 2024 You have probably heard about the global outage of many Microsoft devices, but you may not have heard all the details on why. On this special extra episode of The Lighthouse IT Podcast, Matt and Laif discuss everything we now know about the CloudStrike update that accidentally ground thousands and thousands of organizations to a sudden halt.  https://hub...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - July 26th, 2024 This week, Griff is nowhere to be seen after he went on that ghost-hunting adventure, but the good news is there is one more member of the Lighthouse team whom you may have not met yet. In the co-host seat this time, we have another one of our Harmony Technical Support staff members, Andrew! Listen to this episode of the podcast to hear about what makes...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - July 12th, 2024 This week, Matt & Griff discuss another open-source web library being used to distribute malware after being bought by a Chinese company.  Also, Adobe was facing some heat after their last Terms of Use update, but they have now promised everyone they are not using user content to train their AI model(s). Of course, that hasn't helped them in the...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - June 28th, 2024 This week, Griff has gone missing during a hot air balloon trip, which means it's time once again to meet another member of the Lighthouse team! In the co-host spot this week, Matt has one of our Harmony Technical Support staff, Laif. Together, they talk about Laif's role, how he joined the company, some of his personal interests, and Matt even l...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - June 14th, 2024 This week, Matt & Griff discuss the discovery of last year's cyberattack that caused over 600,000 routers to fail. Windows 11 is set to add an AI feature to track your activities for 90 days, raising privacy concerns. Jack Dorsey left Bluesky and now promotes Nostr as the next big social media platform. Leaked documents reveal details about Googl...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - May 31st, 2024 This week, Griff (insert zany event here), but the show must go on, and thankfully, there are still more members of the Lighthouse team for you to meet. This week, Matt talks with our Navigate Platform Developer, Mark, about his role within the company before the conversation shifts to them rambling about their love of board games. https://hub.lighthouses...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - May 17th, 2024 This week, Matt & Griff discuss how time is finally running out for TikTok to be forced to either sell or be banned in the US, Google's plan to phase out third-party cookies is crumbling as they extend their deadline past 2024, LinkedIn introducing several new games onto its platform, some updates to the XZ Utils story! https://hub.lighthousesol.c...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - May 3rd, 2024 Welcome back to the Lighthouse IT Podcast! We have something a little different for you today. Last month, Matt had such a good conversation with our Operations Manager, Nicole, but that episode was so chock-full of great discussion that we had to break out this conversation into a part two! So, for this episode, we have the rest of their chat here for you...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - April 19th, 2024 This week, Matt & Griff discuss how some big tech companies have been involved in some shady activities lately. Apple has been accused of holding a monopoly on its App Store, Facebook intercepted messages from Snapchat and colluded with Netflix, and Google has finally agreed to make Incognito mode actually private. Also, Alphabet is looking to acqui...

The Lighthouse IT Podcast - April 5th, 2024 This week, Griff has fallen down a well... but that means it's another chance to meet more of the Lighthouse team! This time, Matt talks with our Operations Manager, Nicole, about how she came to work here, how her role has changed, her study of initiatives for increasing employee wellness, Gallup/Clifton strengths, Arthur Brooks, and more! https://h...