Darknet Diaries

Tue, 14 Apr 2020 07:00:00 -0000

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The hacker named w0rmer was active within AnonOps. These are Anonymous Operations which often organi...

Tue, 31 Mar 2020 07:00:00 -0000

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Cam’s story is both a cautionary tale and inspirational at the same time. He’s been both an atta...

Tue, 17 Mar 2020 07:00:00 -0000

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Samy Kamkar is a hacker. And while he’s done a lot of stuff, he’s best known for creating the Sa...

Tue, 03 Mar 2020 08:00:00 -0000

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This is a story about the hacker named “dawgyg” and how he made over $100,000 in a single day, f...

Tue, 18 Feb 2020 08:00:00 -0000

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In this episode we hear from Gary and Justin. Two seasoned penetration testers who tell us a story a...

Tue, 04 Feb 2020 08:00:00 -0000

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OxyMonster sold drugs on the darknet at Dream Market. Something happened though, and it all came cra...

Tue, 21 Jan 2020 08:00:00 -0000

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Hear what goes on internally when Microsoft discovers a major vulnerability within Windows.GuestThan...

Tue, 07 Jan 2020 08:00:00 -0000

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This is the story of Jordan Harbinger. A bit of a misfit teenager, who was always on the edge of tro...

Wed, 25 Dec

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A holiday special episode. A private pen tester takes on a job that involves him with another eccent...

Tue, 24 Dec 2019 08:00:00 -0000

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The story of NotPetya, seems to be the first time, we see what a cyber war looks like. In the summer...

Tue, 10 Dec 2019 08:00:00 -0000

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The NSA has some pretty advanced, super secret, hacking tools. What if these secret hacking tools we...

Tue, 26 Nov 2019 08:00:00 -0000

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Credit card skimming is growing in popularity. Gas pumps all over are seeing skimmers attached to th...

Tue, 12 Nov 2019 08:00:00 -0000

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Kashmir is a region right in between India, Pakistan, and China. For the last 70 years Pakistan and ...

Wed, 30 Oct

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Operation Inherent Resolve was started in 2016 which aimed to combat ISIS. It was a combined joint t...

Tue, 15 Oct 2019 07:00:00 -0000

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In this episode we meet Elliot Alderson (@fs0c131y) from Twitter. Who is this strange masked person?...

Tue, 01 Oct 2019 07:00:00 -0000

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This is the story about when a nation state hacks into a company within another nation.SponsorsThis ...

Tue, 17 Sep 2019 07:00:00 -0000

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This is the story about an ex-NSA agent who went to work for a secret hacking group in the UAE.Spons...

Tue, 03 Sep 2019 07:00:00 -0000

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This is the story about the XBox hacking scene and how a group of guys pushed their luck a little to...

Tue, 20 Aug 2019 07:00:00 -0000

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This is the story about the XBox hacking scene and how a group of guys pushed the hacking a little t...

Tue, 06 Aug 2019 07:00:00 -0000

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Ransomware is ugly. It infects your machine and locks all the the data and to unlock you have to pay...

Tue, 23 Jul 2019 07:00:00 -0000

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This is the story about how I acquired a black badge from DEFCON (pictured above).We also hear the s...

Tue, 09 Jul 2019 07:00:00 -0000

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Three stories in one episode. Listen in on one of Dave Kennedy's penetration tests he conducted wher...

Tue, 25 Jun 2019 07:00:00 -0000

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Join JekHyde and Carl on a physical penetration test, a social engineering engagagement, a red team ...

Tue, 11 Jun 2019 07:00:00 -0000

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Take a ride with a red teamer. A physical penetration tester as he tries to make his away into unaut...

Tue, 28 May 2019 07:00:00 -0000

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A talk at Defcon challenged people to find a way to destroy a hard drive. A young man was inspired b...

Tue, 14 May 2019 07:00:00 -0000

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A journalist wrote articles critical of the Kazakhstan government. The government did not like this ...

Tue, 30 Apr 2019 07:00:00 -0000

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The Venetian casino in Las Vegas Nevada was the largest hotel in the world until 2015. The parent co...

Tue, 16 Apr 2019 07:00:00 -0000

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A company hires a penetration tester to pose as a new hire, Jeremy from Marketing, to see how much h...

Tue, 02 Apr 2019 07:00:00 -0000

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ATM hacking. Hollywood has been fantasizing about this since the 1980's. But is this a thing now? A ...

Tue, 19 Mar 2019 07:00:00 -0000

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Nude selfies. This episode is all about nude selfies. What happens if you take one and give it to a ...

Tue, 05 Mar 2019 08:00:00 -0000

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In 2009 a hacker broke into a website with millions of users and downloaded the entire user database...

Tue, 19 Feb 2019 08:00:00 -0000

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A carding kingpin was tracked by the Secret Service. How did he steal the cards? Where was he steali...

Tue, 05 Feb 2019 08:21:00 -0000

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In late November 2018, a hacker found over 50,000 printers were exposed to the Internet in ways they...

Tue, 22 Jan 2019 08:00:00 -0000

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In 2012, Saudi Aramco was hit with the most destructive virus ever. Thousands and thousands of compu...

Tue, 08 Jan 2019 08:00:00 -0000

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Stuxnet was the most sophisticated virus ever discovered. It's target was a nuclear enrichment facil...

Sat, 15 Dec

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Israel has their own version of the NSA called Unit 8200. I was curious what this unit does and trie...

Sat, 01 Dec

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Something is wrong with the Apple Podcasts top charts. As a podcaster, this personally annoyed and i...

Thu, 15 Nov 2018 08:00:00 -0000

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The IRS processes $3 trillion dollars a year. A lot of criminals want to get a piece of that. In 201...

Thu, 01 Nov 2018 07:00:00 -0000

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Alberto Hill was sent to prison for a long time for hacking. For a crime he said he did not commit. ...

Mon, 15 Oct

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Darknet markets are online black markets. They are highly illegal, and dangerous to run. Hear exactl...

Mon, 01 Oct

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When banks started coming online, they almost immediately started being targeted by hackers. Vladimi...

Sat, 15 Sep

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Three stories in one! In this episode we hear about a penetration test from Mubix that he'll never f...

Sat, 01 Sep

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Ira Winkler's specialty is assembling elite teams of special forces and intelligence officers to go ...

Wed, 15 Aug

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Chances are, if you were downloading shady programs in the early 2000's, you were infected with malw...

Wed, 01 Aug

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In 2009, around Christmas time, something terrible was lurking in the network at Google. Google is t...

Sun, 01 Jul

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A man addicted to gambling finds a bug in a video poker machine that lets him win excessive amounts ...

Sun, 03 Jun

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A 14-year-old kid who finds himself bored in class decides to hack someone's twitter account and end...

Tue, 01 May 2018 08:00:00 -0000

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In 2007, a hacker named Eijah got fed up with the way DRM prevented him from being able to play the ...

Sun, 01 Apr

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A major retailer was hacked. Their point of sales machines were riddled with malware. Listen to hear...

Thu, 01 Mar 2018 08:00:00 -0000

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In 2013 a hospital was accused of conducting a medical kidnapping against a young girl name Justina....

Thu, 15 Feb 2018 08:00:00 -0000

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In 2012 the Carna Bot was built and unleashed on the world. But it didn't have any intentions on doi...

Thu, 01 Feb 2018 08:00:00 -0000

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In the 1990's the Internet started to take shape. But the US goverment had strict laws regulating wh...

Mon, 15 Jan

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What happens when an innovative tech company, that's trying to develop the next big thing, detects a...

Mon, 01 Jan

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In today's world of intelligence gathering, governments hack other governments. This episode takes y...

Fri, 15 Dec

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Mt. Gox was the largest bitcoin exchange in the world. It suddenly went offline. What happened?

Fri, 01 Dec

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Manfred found a way to turn his passion for video games and reverse engineering into a full time bus...

Fri, 01 Dec

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Manfred has had the most epic story of all online video game stories. For the last 20 years, he's be...

Wed, 15 Nov

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Jayson E. Street tells us a story about the time he broke into a bank in Beirut Lebanon.

Wed, 01 Nov

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Security researcher Kyle Lovett bought a new Asus router in 2013. He found it was riddled with secur...

Sun, 15 Oct

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Mobile provider TalkTalk suffered a major breach in 2015. The CEO tried her best to keep angry custo...

Sun, 01 Oct

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The 2011 DigiNotar breach changed the way browsers do security. In this episode, we learn what role ...

Fri, 15 Sep

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VTech makes toy tablets, laptops, and watches for kids. In 2015, they were breached. The hacker down...

Fri, 01 Sep

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Farhan Arshad and Noor Aziz Uddin were captured 2 years after being placed on the FBI's Cyber's Most...