Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
65: PSYOP
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
PSYOP, or “Psychological Operations”, is something the US military has been doing to foreign aud...
64: The Athens Shadow Games
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Vodafone Greece is the largest telecom provider in Greece. But in 2004 a scandal within the company ...
63: w0rmer
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The hacker named w0rmer was active within AnonOps. These are Anonymous Operations which often organi...
62: Cam
31 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Cam’s story is both a cautionary tale and inspirational at the same time. He’s been both an atta...
61: Samy
17 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Samy Kamkar is a hacker. And while he’s done a lot of stuff, he’s best known for creating the Sa...
60: dawgyg
03 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This is a story about the hacker named “dawgyg” and how he made over $100,000 in a single day, f...
59: The Courthouse
18 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this episode we hear from Gary and Justin. Two seasoned penetration testers who tell us a story a...
58: OxyMonster
04 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
OxyMonster sold drugs on the darknet at Dream Market. Something happened though, and it all came cra...
57: MS08-067
21 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Hear what goes on internally when Microsoft discovers a major vulnerability within Windows.GuestThan...
56: Jordan
07 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This is the story of Jordan Harbinger. A bit of a misfit teenager, who was always on the edge of tro...
55: NoirNet
25 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
A holiday special episode. A private pen tester takes on a job that involves him with another eccent...
54: NotPetya
24 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The story of NotPetya, seems to be the first time, we see what a cyber war looks like. In the summer...
53: Shadow Brokers
10 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The NSA has some pretty advanced, super secret, hacking tools. What if these secret hacking tools we...
52: Magecart
26 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Credit card skimming is growing in popularity. Gas pumps all over are seeing skimmers attached to th...
Ep 51: The Indo-Pak Conflict
12 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Kashmir is a region right in between India, Pakistan, and China. For the last 70 years Pakistan and ...
Ep 50: Operation Glowing Symphony
30 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Operation Inherent Resolve was started in 2016 which aimed to combat ISIS. It was a combined joint t...
Ep 49: Elliot
15 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this episode we meet Elliot Alderson (@fs0c131y) from Twitter. Who is this strange masked person?...
Ep 48: Operation Socialist
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This is the story about when a nation state hacks into a company within another nation.SponsorsThis ...
Ep 47: Project Raven
17 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This is the story about an ex-NSA agent who went to work for a secret hacking group in the UAE.Spons...
Ep 46: XBox Underground (Part 2)
03 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This is the story about the XBox hacking scene and how a group of guys pushed their luck a little to...
Ep 45: XBox Underground (Part 1)
20 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This is the story about the XBox hacking scene and how a group of guys pushed the hacking a little t...
Ep 44: Zain
06 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Ransomware is ugly. It infects your machine and locks all the the data and to unlock you have to pay...
Ep 43: PPP
23 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This is the story about how I acquired a black badge from DEFCON (pictured above).We also hear the s...
Ep 42: Mini-Stories: Vol 2
09 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Three stories in one episode. Listen in on one of Dave Kennedy's penetration tests he conducted wher...
Ep 41: Just Visiting
25 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Join JekHyde and Carl on a physical penetration test, a social engineering engagagement, a red team ...
Ep 40: No Parking
11 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Take a ride with a red teamer. A physical penetration tester as he tries to make his away into unaut...
Ep 39: 3 Alarm Lamp Scooter
28 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
A talk at Defcon challenged people to find a way to destroy a hard drive. A young man was inspired b...
Ep 38: Dark Caracal
14 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
A journalist wrote articles critical of the Kazakhstan government. The government did not like this ...
Ep 37: LVS
30 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Venetian casino in Las Vegas Nevada was the largest hotel in the world until 2015. The parent co...
Ep 36: Jeremy from Marketing
16 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
A company hires a penetration tester to pose as a new hire, Jeremy from Marketing, to see how much h...
Ep 35: Carbanak
02 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
ATM hacking. Hollywood has been fantasizing about this since the 1980's. But is this a thing now? A ...
Ep 34: For Your Eyes Only
19 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Nude selfies. This episode is all about nude selfies. What happens if you take one and give it to a ...
Ep 33: RockYou
05 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 2009 a hacker broke into a website with millions of users and downloaded the entire user database...
Ep 32: The Carder
19 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
A carding kingpin was tracked by the Secret Service. How did he steal the cards? Where was he steali...
Ep 31: Hacker Giraffe
05 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In late November 2018, a hacker found over 50,000 printers were exposed to the Internet in ways they...
Ep 30: Shamoon
22 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 2012, Saudi Aramco was hit with the most destructive virus ever. Thousands and thousands of compu...
Ep 29: Stuxnet
08 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Stuxnet was the most sophisticated virus ever discovered. It's target was a nuclear enrichment facil...
Ep 28: Unit 8200
15 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Israel has their own version of the NSA called Unit 8200. I was curious what this unit does and trie...
Ep 27: Chartbreakers
01 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Something is wrong with the Apple Podcasts top charts. As a podcaster, this personally annoyed and i...
Ep 26: IRS
15 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The IRS processes $3 trillion dollars a year. A lot of criminals want to get a piece of that. In 201...
Ep 25: Alberto
01 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Alberto Hill was sent to prison for a long time for hacking. For a crime he said he did not commit. ...
Ep 24: Operation Bayonet
15 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Darknet markets are online black markets. They are highly illegal, and dangerous to run. Hear exactl...
Ep 23: Vladimir Levin
01 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
When banks started coming online, they almost immediately started being targeted by hackers. Vladimi...
Ep 22: Mini-Stories: Vol 1
15 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Three stories in one! In this episode we hear about a penetration test from Mubix that he'll never f...
Ep 21: Black Duck Eggs
01 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Ira Winkler's specialty is assembling elite teams of special forces and intelligence officers to go ...
Ep 20: mobman
15 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Chances are, if you were downloading shady programs in the early 2000's, you were infected with malw...
Ep 19: Operation Aurora
01 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 2009, around Christmas time, something terrible was lurking in the network at Google. Google is t...
Ep 18: Jackpot
01 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
A man addicted to gambling finds a bug in a video poker machine that lets him win excessive amounts ...
Ep 17: Finn
03 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
A 14-year-old kid who finds himself bored in class decides to hack someone's twitter account and end...
Ep 16: Eijah
01 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 2007, a hacker named Eijah got fed up with the way DRM prevented him from being able to play the ...
Ep 15: Ill Tills
01 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
A major retailer was hacked. Their point of sales machines were riddled with malware. Listen to hear...
Ep 14: #OpJustina
01 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 2013 a hospital was accused of conducting a medical kidnapping against a young girl name Justina....
Ep 13: Carna Botnet
15 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 2012 the Carna Bot was built and unleashed on the world. But it didn't have any intentions on doi...
Ep 12: Crypto Wars
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In the 1990's the Internet started to take shape. But the US goverment had strict laws regulating wh...
Ep 11: Strictly Confidential
15 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
What happens when an innovative tech company, that's trying to develop the next big thing, detects a...
Ep 10: Misadventures of a Nation State Actor
01 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In today's world of intelligence gathering, governments hack other governments. This episode takes y...
Ep 9: The Rise and Fall of Mt. Gox
15 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Mt. Gox was the largest bitcoin exchange in the world. It suddenly went offline. What happened?
Ep 8: Manfred (Part 2)
01 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Manfred found a way to turn his passion for video games and reverse engineering into a full time bus...
Ep 7: Manfred (Part 1)
01 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Manfred has had the most epic story of all online video game stories. For the last 20 years, he's be...
Ep 6: The Beirut Bank Job
15 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Jayson E. Street tells us a story about the time he broke into a bank in Beirut Lebanon.
Ep 5: #ASUSGATE
01 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Security researcher Kyle Lovett bought a new Asus router in 2013. He found it was riddled with secur...
Ep 4: Panic! at the TalkTalk Board Room
15 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Mobile provider TalkTalk suffered a major breach in 2015. The CEO tried her best to keep angry custo...
Ep 3: DigiNotar, You are the Weakest Link, Good Bye!
01 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The 2011 DigiNotar breach changed the way browsers do security. In this episode, we learn what role ...
Ep 2: The Peculiar Case of the VTech Hacker
15 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
VTech makes toy tablets, laptops, and watches for kids. In 2015, they were breached. The hacker down...
Ep 1: The Phreaky World of PBX Hacking
01 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Farhan Arshad and Noor Aziz Uddin were captured 2 years after being placed on the FBI's Cyber's Most...